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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973327803321

Autore

Delpit Lisa D

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New Press, 2012

ISBN

9786613793409

9781281961211

1281961213

9781595587701

1595587705

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 224 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

379.2/60973

Soggetti

Educational equalization - United States

Academic achievement - United States

African American students

Minorities - Education - United States

Students with social disabilities - Education - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.