The color of mind : why the origins of the achievement gap matter for justice /
American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? This book answers these questions and show that we cannot make further progress in closing the achie...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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| Series: | History and philosophy of education
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What school leaders need to know
- The racial achievement gap
- The color of mind: constructing racial differences in intellect, character, and conduct
- The color of schooling: constructing the racial achievement gap
- Voices of dissent: dispelling an inglorious fallacy
- "A tangle of pathology": the color of mind takes a cultural turn
- What schools cannot fix: poverty, inequality, and segregation
- Old poison in new bottles: how the color of mind thrives in schools and affects achievement
- Why we sort kids in school
- Unjust schools: why the origins of the achievement gap matter.