Amazon.com description: Product Description: Equity in Education provides a uniquely international perspective to the challenges and progress being made in the area of educating at risk students. By bringing forward the range of educational issues related to educating the most disadvantaged students in diverse contexts, the book examines a range of themes including, issues involved in educating at risk students that are unique to each country, issues shared by developing countries as contrasted to issues shared by clearly first world nations, and issues that are shared by all countries in the education of disadvantaged children.
The sample of countries from which analyses is presented include two developing countries (India and Indonesia), one country recently declared to be a developed nation (Taiwan), and three relatively mature, first world nations (The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the USA). This book will provide material and thought for cross cultural comparisons and deliberations, and future directions for school effectiveness and improvement.