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 Edison Schools Announces Release of New Book, Bridging the Achievement Gap. Edited Volume Presents Solutions to one of Americas Most Troubling Thursday, November 21, 2002 White students achieve at levels significantly higher than African American and Hispanic students. In February 2001, Edisons Chief Education Officer, John Chubb, and Brookings Senior Fellow, Tom Loveless, assembled a group of scholars to analyze various approaches to this persistent problem. Bridging the Achievement Gap, which was co-edited by Chubb and Loveless, brings together the findings of these renowned education scholars who show how various states, school districts, and individual schools have lifted the achievement levels of poor and minority students. Closing the achievement gap has always been central to Edisons mission of providing a world class education for every child, said John Chubb. We believe Bridging the Achievement Gap is not only provocative but can be a valuable resource for educators who are committed to tackling inequities in our nations schools. The most promising strategies presented in the book include focusing on core academic skills, reducing class size, enrolling students in more challenging courses, administering annual achievement assessment tests, creating schools with a culture of competition and success, and offering vouchers in big-city school districts. While implementing new educational programs on a large scale is fraught with difficulties, these successful reform efforts offer what could be the start of widespread effective solutions for bridging the achievement gap. John E. Chubb is a founding partner of Edison Schools and a nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. His books include (with Terry M. Moe) Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (Brookings, 1990). Tom Loveless is director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is The Great Curriculum Debate: How Should We Teach Reading and Math? (Brookings, 2001). Bridging the Achievement Gap is available through Brookings Institution Press (1-800-275-1447 or 202-797-6258).
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