Through integrated analyses of national and international datasets the book provides new evidence on the status and alterability of achievement gaps the causes of these gaps and the effects of educational policies on the gaps although underachievement prevails due to inadequate and inequitable learning environments in both homes and schools the american education system has strengths and can still win the war on achievement gaps. The anatomy of achievement gaps why and how american education is losing but can still win the war on underachievement lee dean of the graduate school of education and professor educational leadership and policy jaekyung 9780190217648 books amazonca. The anatomy of achievement gaps offers a critical analysis of underachievement problems in american education from interdisciplinary international and systems perspectives the book has several aims to build a new model of achievement gap research and policy to provide evidence on the state and alterability of achievement gaps to synthesize separate lines of domestic and international achievement gap research and to evaluate and inform american p 16 pre school through college . The anatomy of achievement gaps why and how american education is losing but can still win the war on underachievement by jaekyung lee this project started with the premise that public education is central to solving many national and global challenges and that scientific research should inform educational policy decisions