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"Multiplication is for white people" : raising expectations for other people's children / Lisa Delpit.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delpit, Lisa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--United States.
- Educational equalization.
- Academic achievement--United States.
- Academic achievement.
- African American students.
- Minorities--Education--United States.
- Minorities.
- Students with social disabilities--Education--United States.
- Students with social disabilities.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 224 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As MacArthur award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us?and as all research shows?there 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.
- 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.
- Contents:
- There is no achievement gap at birth
- Infinite capacity
- Stuff you never would say : the ingredients of successful elementary classrooms
- Warm demanders : the importance of teachers in the lives of children of poverty
- Skin-deep learning : teaching those who learn differently
- "I don't like it when they don't say my name right" : why "reforming" can't mean "whitening"
- Picking up the broom : demanding critical thinking
- How would a fool do it? : assessment
- Shooting hoops : what can we learn about the drive for excellence?
- Invisibility, disidentification, and negotiating blackness on campus
- Will it help the sheep? : university and community.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCO, viewed July 28, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613793409
- 9781281961211
- 1281961213
- 9781595587701
- 1595587705
- OCLC:
- 774274288
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