No Excuses
Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
Published on 1. October 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-7432-6522-5 (ISBN)
Description
The distinguished authors of "American in Black and White" offer a "meticulously documented and powerfully written" ("The Boston Globe") book that examines the troubling racial gap that persists in American education. 48 pieces of line art.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7432-6522-5 (9780743265225)
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E-Book
07/2009
1st Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
€15.81
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Persons
Abigail Thernstrom is a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York. She is the author of Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights and, with her husband, Stephan, of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible.
Content
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
1 The Problem
One: Left Behind
2 Great Teaching
Three: Building Academic Skills
Four: Not by Math Alone
3 Culture Matters
Five: Asians
Six: Hispanics
Seven: Blacks
4 The Conventional Wisdom
Eight: Send Money
Nine: Racial Isolation
Ten: Teacher Quality
5 Serious Effort, Limited Results
Eleven: Congress Strikes Out
Twelve: Raising the Bar
Thirteen: Roadblocks to Change
Conclusion
Notes
Index