No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning - Hardcover

Thernstrom, Abigail M.; Thernstrom, Stephan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743204468 ISBN 13: 9780743204460

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2003

Synopsis

A concerned appraisal of the racial gap in education today cites educational inequalities as a central civil rights issue, highlighting inner-city schools that demonstrate models of educational excellence while suggesting ways that educational problems can be overcome.

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Review:

James Traub Los Angeles Times The Thernstroms have done an enormous service by tracing the great problem of our time to its root and, at the same time, by clearing out of the way so much of the cant that clutters discussion of school reform.

Kim Marshall The Boston Globe Meticulously documented and powerfully written.

About the Author:

Abigail Thernstrom is a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York. She is the author of Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights and, with her husband, Stephan, of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743204468
• ISBN 13: 9780743204460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352