Ebook {Epub PDF} No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom

Closing the Racial Gap in Learning. Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial. No Excuses provides an excellent look at the disparities in learning among the races. The Thernstroms offer insight into the causes of these disparities (both historical and cultural), offer a glimpse into schools that have successfully closed the gap . No Excuses.: Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America.

Interesting data from the book NO EXCUSES: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom • The average 17 year old black or Hispanic student scores below 80% of whites. Review of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Jay Mathews, The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn No Excuses by Walter E. Williams, For lousy schools, no excuses by Bill Murchison, Asking Tough Questions, Debunking Old Answers by Andrew Wolf, New York Sun, An Attitude Gap. "Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom have produced a boook that should rock the nation. NO EXCUSES: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning is an absolutely brilliant analysis of what ails American education today. No fair-minded person reading this scholarly and lucid book can fail to recognize [the Thernstroms'] good faith.

NO EXCUSES: CLOSING THE RACIAL GAP IN LEARNING. ABIGAIL THERNSTROM STEPHAN THERNSTROM SIMON SCHUSTER, $, pages. Reviewed by Tamela J. Loggins. No Excuses. is a detailed account of how the public education system is not only failing today’s youth, but more importantly, how it is perpetuating racial inequality in this country. No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning. Thernstrom, Abigail; Thernstrom, Stephan This book analyzes the achievement gap in education, examining the depth of the problem, the inadequacy of conventional explanations, and the limited impact of Title I, Head Start, and other familiar programs. Closing the Racial Gap in Learning. Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial.