Lisa Delpit: 4 books
"Multiplication Is for White People"
Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
From the MacArthur 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 MacArthur Award–winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us—and as...
Other People's Children
Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and *Choice Magazine’*s Outstanding Academic book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary...
City Kids, City Teachers
Reports from the Front Row
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
“City Kids, City Teachers has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools.” —Library Journal
In more than twenty-five provocative selections, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of...
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right
Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for a** campaign **to guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right—a movement that...