Chapter 1: Introduction: Making K–12 Public Education an Engine for Social Mobility by Richard D. Kahlenberg 

Chapter 2. Summer Learning and Home Environment by Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson

Chapter 3. Equalizing Education Resources on Behalf of Disadvantaged Children by Richard Rothstein

Chapter 4. High Standards: A Strategy for Equalizing Opportunities to Learn? by Adam Gamoran

Chapter 5. Inequality in Teaching and Schooling: Supporting High-
Quality Teaching and Leadership in Low-Income Schools by Linda Darling-Hammond and Laura Post

Chapter 6. Charter Schools and Racial and Social Class Segregation: Yet Another Sorting Machine? by Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Alejandra Lopez, and Camille Wilson Cooper

Chapter 7. Unequal Learning Environments: Discipline that Works by Paul E. Barton

Chapter 8. Critical Support: The Public View of Public Education by Ruy Teixeira

Notes
Index 
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