"Multiplication Is for White People"
As MacArthur award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds usaand as all research showsathere is no achievement gap at birth. In her long-awaited second book, Delpit presents a striking picture of the elements of contemporary public education that conspire against the prospects for poor children of color, creating a persistent gap in achievement during the school years that has eluded several decades of reform. Delpit's bestselling and paradigm-shifting first book, Other People's Children, focused on cultural slippage in the classroom between white teachers and students of color. Now, in qMultiplication is for White Peopleq, Delpit reflects on two decades of reform effortsaincluding No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movementathat have still left a generation of poor children of color feeling that higher educational achievement isn't for them. In chapters covering primary, middle, and high school, as well as college, Delpit concludes that it's not that difficult to explain the persistence of the achievement gap. In her wonderful trademark style, punctuated with telling classroom anecdotes and informed by time spent at dozens of schools across the country, Delpit outlines an inspiring and uplifting blueprint for raising expectations for other people's children, based on the simple premise that multiplicationaand every aspect of advanced educationais for everyone.Now, in aquot;Multiplication is for White Peopleaquot;, Delpit reflects on two decades of reform effortsaincluding No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school ...
| Title | : | "Multiplication Is for White People" |
| Author | : | Lisa Delpit |
| Publisher | : | New Press, The - 2012-03-20 |
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