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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. Now, in "Multiplication is for White People", Delpit reflects on two decades of reform efforts including No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movement 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 multiplication and every aspect of advanced education is for everyone.
Contents
CONTENTSAcknowledgments xiIntroduction: Yes, Diane, I'm Still Angry xvPart One: Inherent Ability1. There Is No Achievement Gap at Birth 32. Infinite Capacity 27Part Two: Educating the Youngest3. Stuff You Never Would Say: Successful LiteracyInstruction in Elementary Classrooms 534. Warm Demanders: The Importance of Teachersin the Lives of Children of Poverty 715. Skin-Deep Learning: Teaching ThoseWho Learn Differently 896. "I Don't Like It When They Don't Say My NameRight": Why "Reforming" Can't Mean "Whitening" 105Part Three: Teaching Adolescents7. Picking Up the Broom: Demanding Critical Thinking 1238. How Would a Fool Do It? Assessment 1379. Shooting Hoops: What Can We Learn About theDrive for Excellence? 149Part Four: University and Beyond10. Invisibility, Disidentification, and NegotiatingBlackness on Campus 16911. Will It Help the Sheep? University, Community,and Purpose 193Appendix 207Notes 211
