Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Pedro A. Noguera (Editor); Jean Yonemura Wing (Editor)
After four years of investigating the dynamics of race and achievement at Berkeley High School, the authors reveal the hidden inequities of schools--where cultural attitudes, academic tracking, curricular access, after-school activities, and more serve as sorting mechanisms that set students on predetermined paths of success or failure.
From the rear cover
FRESH INSIGHT ON RACIAL DYNAMICS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOOLS
"Unfinished Business illuminates the challenges in overcoming the current inequities in public education. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, this book exposes a 'tale of two schools' where students walk through the same high school doors but remain racially and academically segregated within--a condition mirrored in urban schools and districts across the nation. The authors offer a hopeful, yet urgent, call to invest in youth on the front side of life and to hold fast to the vision of a future where all children can truly learn, achieve, and dream to their highest potential."
--REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON, SR., president and founder, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
"It should concern us deeply as scholars, policymakers, and practitioners that at one of our nation's best schools--one that is deemed as 'working' and highly successful according to official accounts--children's destinies are no less circumscribed by race and class. This book contains a clear wake-up call in its masterful account of deep and abiding commitments to educational equity."
--ANGELA VALENZUELA, Haskew Centennial Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction and Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
"It's a powerful experience to immerse oneself in this book. The many voices of teachers--and even of kids and families--reveal that many inequities remain hidden in our schools. Unfinished Business shows that there's work to be done, and provokes us into thinking more deeply about answers."
--DEBORAH MEIER, senior scholar, New York University, and founding principal of Central Park East schools in Harlem and Mission Hill in Roxbury
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- Title Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools
- Author Pedro A. Noguera (Editor); Jean Yonemura Wing (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass
- Date 2008-08-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780470384442 / 0470384441
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.06 x 0.98 in (22.81 x 15.39 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Library of Congress subjects Educational equalization - United States, Academic achievement - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 379.26
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