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Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap
by Marlene Taylor

    Publication Date: Apr 01, 2006
    List Price: $14.95
    Format: Paperback, 150 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780974900063
    Imprint: African American Images
    Publisher: African American Images
    Parent Company: African American Images

    Description of Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap by Marlene Taylor


    With the arrival of the No Child Left Behind Act, the so-called racial achievement gap has attracted more concern and controversy than ever before. According to this timely analysis, the myth of the racial achievement gap has nothing to do with genetics—and everything to do with a host of embarrassing yet reversible social and pedagogical failures, including low teacher expectations, unrealistic time tables for learning goals, irrelevant curricula, ineffectual teaching methods, careless administrators, poor parental involvement, negative peer groups, and self-esteem issues. For every problem raised, the text offers a level-headed solution, culminating in a plan for closing the supposed racial achievement gap for good.



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