List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Acronyms
Series Editor's Foreword
Introduction
1. Inequality in Education: A Critical Analysis
W. James JACOB & Donald B. HOLSINGER
Part I - Conceptual Issues
2. Distribution of Opportunities Key to Development
Vinod THOMAS & WANG Yan
3. Does Capitalism Inevitably Increase Inequality?
David HILL, Nigel M. GREAVES, & Alpesh MAISURIA
4. Education and Inequality in the Developing World
WU Kin Bin
5. Gender Inequalities in Educational Participation
Karen E. HYER, Bonnie BALLIF-SPANVILL, Susan J. PETERS, Yodit SOLOMON, Heather THOMAS, & Carol WARD
6. Inequalities in Education for People with Disabilities
Susan J. PETERS
7. Language and Democracy in Africa
Birgit BROCK-UTNE
Part II - Asia
8. Reconstructing Access in the Cambodian Education System
John M. COLLINS
9. Higher Education in China: Access, Equity, and Equality
John N. HAWKINS, W. James JACOB, & LI Wenli
10. Using Enrollment and Attainment in Formal Education to Understand the Case of India
Mary Ann MASLAK
11. Education Inequality in the Republic of Korea: Measurement and Causes
Matthew E. BURT & PARK Namgi
12. Access and Equity: Who are the Students at Taiwan's Top Universities?
HUNG Chih-Cheng & CHENG Sheng Yao
13. Provincial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Education: A Descriptive Study of Vietnam
W. Joshua REW
Part III - Europe
14. Different Paths, Similar Effects: Persistent Inequalities and Their Sources in European Higher Education
Cécile DEER
15. Religious Education and Islam in Europe
Holger DAUN
Part IV - Middle East & North Africa
16. Social Inequalities, Educational Attainment, and Teachers in Egypt
Nagwa M. MEGAHED & Mark B.GINSBURG
17. Inequalities in Iranian Education: Representations of Gender, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnic Diversity, and Religious Diversity in School Textbooks and Curricula
Omid KHEILTASH & Val D. RUST
Part V - North & South America
18. Mexico: Evolution of Education and Inequality in the Last Two Decades
Gladys LOPEZ-ACEVEDO
19. Issues of Difference Contributing to US Educational Inequality
Eric JOHNSON & Tyrone C. HOWARD
20. Measuring Educational Inequality in South Africa and Peru
Luis CROUCH, Martin GUSTAFSSON, & Pablo LAVADO
21. Participation of Civil Society in School Governance: Comparative Research of Institutional Designs in Nicaragua and Brazil
Silvina GVIRTZ & Lucila MINVIELLE
Part VI - Sub-Saharan Africa
22. The History and Devolution of Education in South Africa
Christopher B. MEEK & Joshua Y. MEEK
23. Measuring Education Inequalities in Commonwealth Countries in Africa
Elaine UNTERHALTER & Mora OOMME
Conclusion
24. Education Inequality and Academic Achievement
Donald B. HOLSINGER & W. James JACOB
Notes on the Authors
Index

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes a series of methods for measuring education inequalities. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends in the distribution of formal schooling in national populations. It also offers a strategic comparative and international education policy statement on recent shifts in education inequality, and new approaches to explore, develop and improve comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing authors examine how education as a process interacts with government finance policy to form patterns of access to education services. In addition to case perspectives from 18 countries across six geographic regions, the volume includes six conceptual chapters on topics that influence education inequality, such as gender, disability, language and economics, and a summary chapter that presents new evidence on the pernicious consequences of inequality in the distribution of education. The book offers (1) a better and more holistic understanding of ways to measure education inequalities; and (2) strategies for facing the challenge of inequality in education in the processes of policy formation, planning and implementation at the local, regional, national and global levels.