From the Mac Arthur Award–winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People’s Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America’s public schools
As Mac Arthur 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Yes, Diane, I’m Still Angry xv
Part One: Inherent Ability
1. There Is No Achievement Gap at Birth 3
2. Infinite Capacity 27
Part Two: Educating the Youngest
3. Stuff You Never Would Say: Successful Literacy
Instruction in Elementary Classrooms 53
4. Warm Demanders: The Importance of Teachers
in the Lives of Children of Poverty 71
5. Skin-Deep Learning: Teaching Those
Who Learn Differently 89
6. “I Don’t Like It When They Don’t Say My Name
Right”: Why “Reforming” Can’t Mean “Whitening” 105
Part Three: Teaching Adolescents
7. Picking Up the Broom: Demanding Critical Thinking 123
8. How Would a Fool Do It? Assessment 137
9. Shooting Hoops: What Can We Learn About the
Drive for Excellence? 149
Part Four: University and Beyond
10. Invisibility, Disidentification, and Negotiating
Blackness on Campus 169
11. Will It Help the Sheep? University, Community,
and Purpose 193
Appendix 207
Notes 211
Über den Autor
Mac Arthur ‚genius‘ award winner
Lisa Delpit’s article on ‚Other People’s Children‘ for
Harvard Magazine was the single most requested reprint in the magazine’s history following its publication. Delpit expanded her ideas into a groundbreaking book with the same name, which won a Critics‘ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association,
Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title award, and was voted one of
Teacher Magazine’s ‚great books.‘ A recipient of the Harvard School of Education’s award for an Outstanding Contribution to Education, she is dedicated to providing excellent education to communities both in the United States and abroad. She is a co-editor of
The Real Ebonics Debate,
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right, and
The Skin That We Speak(The New Press). Currently the Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at Southern University, she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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