{"product_id":"unfinished-business-closing-the-racial-achievement-gap-in-our-schools-paperback","title":"Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePedro A. Noguera\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJean Yonemura Wing\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, co-editors Pedro Noguera and Jean Yonemura Wing, and their collaborators investigated the dynamics of race and achievement at Berkeley High School-a large public high school that the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e called \"the most integrated high school in America.\" Berkeley's diverse student population clearly illustrates the \"achievement gap\" phenomenon in our schools. \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Business\u003c\/i\u003e brings to light the hidden inequities of schools-where cultural attitudes, academic tracking, curricular access, and after-school activities serve as sorting mechanisms that set students on paths of success or failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRESH INSIGHT ON RACIAL DYNAMICS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOOLS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnfinished Business\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the challenges in overcoming the current inequities in public education. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, this book exposes a 'tale of two schools' where students walk through the same high school doors but remain racially and academically segregated within--a condition mirrored in urban schools and districts across the nation. The authors offer a hopeful, yet urgent, call to invest in youth on the front side of life and to hold fast to the vision of a future where all children can truly learn, achieve, and dream to their highest potential.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e--REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON, SR., \u003c\/b\u003e president and founder, Rainbow\/PUSH Coalition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It should concern us deeply as scholars, policymakers, and practitioners that at one of our nation's best schools--one that is deemed as 'working' and highly successful according to official accounts--children's destinies are no less circumscribed by race and class. This book contains a clear wake-up call in its masterful account of deep and abiding commitments to educational equity.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e--ANGELA VALENZUELA, \u003c\/b\u003e Haskew Centennial Professor, Department of Curriculum \u0026amp; Instruction and Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's a powerful experience to immerse oneself in this book. The many voices of teachers--and even of kids and families--reveal that many inequities remain hidden in our schools. \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Business\u003c\/i\u003e shows that there's work to be done, and provokes us into thinking more deeply about answers.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e--DEBORAH MEIER, \u003c\/b\u003e senior scholar, New York University, and founding principal of Central Park East schools in Harlem and Mission Hill in Roxbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE EDITORS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePEDRO A. NOGUERA\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, the executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, and the co-director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJEAN YONEMURA WING\u003c\/b\u003e is affiliated with UC ACCORD (University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity) and is a researcher in the Oakland Unified School District.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 356\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 8.98 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756036522272,"sku":"9780470384442","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5cb3e31f2975639916570a29a529061a.webp?v=1780073153","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/unfinished-business-closing-the-racial-achievement-gap-in-our-schools-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}