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Zusatztext Kim Marshall The Boston Globe Meticulously documented and powerfully written. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The racial gap in academic performance between whites and Asians! on the one hand! and Latinos and blacks! on the other hand! is America's most urgent educational problem. It is also the central civil rights issue of our time! say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom. Unequal skills and knowledge are the main sources of ongoing racial inequality! and racial inequality is America's great unfinished business. A wide and tragic gap in learning is evident in affluent suburbs as well as inner cities. But great schools are scattered across the country! as described in inspiring detail by the Thernstroms. These schools are putting even the most highly disadvantaged children on the American ladder of economic opportunity. There are no good excuses for the perpetuation of long-standing inequalities! the Thernstroms argue eloquently. The problem can be solved! but conventional strategies will not work. Fundamental educational reform is needed. Carefully researched! accessibly written! and powerfully persuasive! this book offers both a close analysis of the current landscape and a blueprint for essential and overdue change. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 The ProblemOne: Left Behind2 Great TeachingThree: Building Academic SkillsFour: Not by Math Alone3 Culture MattersFive: AsiansSix: HispanicsSeven: Blacks4 The Conventional WisdomEight: Send MoneyNine: Racial IsolationTen: Teacher Quality5 Serious Effort, Limited ResultsEleven: Congress Strikes OutTwelve: Raising the BarThirteen: Roadblocks to ChangeConclusionNotesIndex...
