Delpit explores a wide range of little-known research that conclusively demonstrates there is no achievement gap at birth and argues that poor teaching, negative stereotypes about African American intellectual inferiority, and a curriculum that still does not adequately connect to poor children's lives all conspire against the education prospects of poor children of color.
Delpit explores a wide range of little-known research that conclusively demonstrates there is no achievement gap at birth and argues that poor teaching, negative stereotypes about African American intellectual inferiority, and a curriculum that still does not adequately connect to poor children's lives all conspire against the education prospects of poor children of color.
MacArthur "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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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
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
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