Includes bibliographical references and index.

Education and inequality in a global context / Paul Attewell -- Educational inequality in Latin America: patterns, policies, and issues / Cristian Cox -- Entrance into prestigious universities and the performance of groups that have been discriminated against on the vestibular: black students in the University of São Paulo, 2001-2007 / Antonio S.A. Guimarães -- Education and racial inequality in post-Apartheid South Africa / Malcolm Keswell -- Social class and educational inequality in South Korea / Kwang-Yeong Shin ; Byoung-Hoon Lee -- Equal opportunity in higher Education in Israel: lessons from the Kibbutz / Yaakov Gilboa ; Moshe Justman -- Sociopolitical changes and inequality in educational opportunities in China: two different trends, 1940-2001 / Li Chunling -- Middle-class losers? The role of emotion in educational careers in Hong Kong / Yi-Lee Wong -- The afterlife of NEETs / Karen Robson -- Overeducation and social generations in France: welfare regimes and inter-cohort inequalities in returns to education / Louis Chauvel -- Education and the labor market: the case of Poland / Pawel Polawski -- The socioeconomic intergration of immigrants in the EU: effects of origin and destination countries on the first and second generation / Fenella Fleischmann ; Jaap Dronkers -- Gender, perceptions of opportunity, and investment in schooling / Angel L. Harris.

In Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship between inequality and education. Covering almost every continent, Growing Gaps provides an overarching and essential examination of who is actually able to benefit from economic growth and who, because of the educational demands it brings about, it shuts out.