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Multiplication is for white people : raising expectations for other people's children / Lisa Delpit.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New Press ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2013.Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xx, 224 p. : ill., charts ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1595588981 (pbk.)
  • 9781595588982 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Yes, Diane, I'm still angry -- Inherent Ability. There is no achievement gap at birth ; Infinite capacity. -- Educating the Youngest. Stuff you never would say: successful literacy instruction in 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". -- Teaching Adolescents. 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?. -- University and Beyond. Invisibility, disidentification, and negotiating blackness on campus ; Will it help the sheep? : university, community, and purpose.
Summary: This book 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. As the author reminds us, and as all research shows, there is no achievement gap at birth. Her first book, Other People's Children, focused on cultural slippage in the classroom between white teachers and students of color. Now, in this second work, she reflects on two decades of reform efforts, including No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movement, that have still left a generation of poor children of color feeling that higher educational achievement is not for them. In chapters covering primary, middle, and high school, as well as college, she concludes that it is not that difficult to explain the persistence of the achievement gap. Punctuated with telling classroom anecdotes and informed by time spent at dozens of schools across the country, she outlines a blueprint for raising expectations for other people's children, based on the simple premise that multiplication, and every aspect of advanced education, is for everyone.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the MacArthur Award-winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People's Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America's public schools

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. Now, in "Multiplication Is for White People", Delpit reflects on two decades of reform efforts--including No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movement--that 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 multiplication--and every aspect of advanced education--is for everyone.

Originally published in hardcover: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-224).

Yes, Diane, I'm still angry -- Inherent Ability. There is no achievement gap at birth ; Infinite capacity. -- Educating the Youngest. Stuff you never would say: successful literacy instruction in 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". -- Teaching Adolescents. 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?. -- University and Beyond. Invisibility, disidentification, and negotiating blackness on campus ; Will it help the sheep? : university, community, and purpose.

This book 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. As the author reminds us, and as all research shows, there is no achievement gap at birth. Her first book, Other People's Children, focused on cultural slippage in the classroom between white teachers and students of color. Now, in this second work, she reflects on two decades of reform efforts, including No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movement, that have still left a generation of poor children of color feeling that higher educational achievement is not for them. In chapters covering primary, middle, and high school, as well as college, she concludes that it is not that difficult to explain the persistence of the achievement gap. Punctuated with telling classroom anecdotes and informed by time spent at dozens of schools across the country, she outlines a blueprint for raising expectations for other people's children, based on the simple premise that multiplication, and every aspect of advanced education, is for everyone.

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