Ch. 1. What can we learn from studying educational opportunity in the Americas and why should we care? / Fernando Reimers
Ch. 2. Perspectives in the study of educational opportunity / Fernando Reimers
Ch. 3. Excellence, equity, and diversity in education / Charles V. Willie
Ch. 4. Educational opportunity and policy in Latin America / Fernando Reimers
Ch. 5. Educating the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean: examples of compensatory education / Donald Winkler
Ch. 6. Can education measure up to poverty in Argentina? / Inés Aguerrondo
Ch. 7. Educational policies and equity in Chile / Juan Eduardo García-Huidobro
Ch. 8. Education and poverty in Chile: affirmative action in the 1990s / Ernesto Schiefelbein and Paulina Schiefelbein
Ch. 9. Equity and education in Colombia / Afredo Sarmiento Gómez
Ch. 10. Poverty and education in Mexico, 1984-1996 / Teresa Bracho
Ch. 11. The schooling situation of children in highly underprivileged rural localities in Mexico / Patricia E. Muñiz
Ch. 12. Education and Indian peoples in Mexico: an example of policy failure / Sylvia Schmelkes
Ch. 13. Function and evaluation of a compensatory program directed at the poorest Mexican states: Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, and Oaxaca / Carlos Muñoz Izquierdo and Raquel Ahuja Sánchez
Ch. 14. Education and poverty in Peru / King Bing Wu ... [et al.]
Ch. 15. Policy and equity: lessons of a third of a century of educational reforms in the United States / Gary Orfield
Ch. 16. Conclusions: can our knowledge change what low-income children learn? / Fernando Reimers
