Lisa Delpit
As MacArthur award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds usâ€”and as all research showsâ€”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 effortsâ€”including No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movementâ€”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 multiplicationâ€”and every aspect of advanced educationâ€”is for everyone.
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"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children