Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools
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ISBN: 0787972754 / Publisher: Jossey-Bass, March 2006
Reveals the hidden inequities of schools where academic tracking, cultural perceptions, curricular access, and after-school activities contribute to students' success or failure, and explains what can be done to close the gap.
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In this study of a large, comprehensive high school in Northern California, contributors examine cultural attitudes, academic tracking, curricular access, extracurricular activities, and other "sorting mechanisms" to see why some students are in and others are out. They find inequality to be structured-in, with white privilege, racially-based discipline, and the normalization of failure for certain students intact. They concentrate, however, on suggestions about changing teacher practice, transforming the role of parents, listening to the voices of students, and using educational research effectively and efficiently to close the racial achievement gap. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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