Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap

ISBN: 9780974900063

作者: Matthew Lynch

出版社: Independent Pub Group

出版年: 2006-4

页数: 150

定价: $ 16.89

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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 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.