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No excuses : closing the racial gap in learning / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom. [print]

By:

Thernstrom, Abigail M, 1936- [Author]

Contributor(s):

Thernstrom, Stephan

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

LC3731.T411.N649 2003
LC3731

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Contents:

Tests matter -- Great teaching: Building academic skills -- Not by math alone -- Culture matters: Asians -- Hispanics -- Blacks -- The conventional wisdom: Send money -- Racial isolation -- Teacher quality -- Serious effort, limited results -- Congress strikes out -- Raising the bar -- Roadblocks to change.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	LC3731.T455 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001093935

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Includes bibliographies and index.

The problem: Left behind -- Tests matter -- Great teaching: Building academic skills -- Not by math alone -- Culture matters: Asians -- Hispanics -- Blacks -- The conventional wisdom: Send money -- Racial isolation -- Teacher quality -- Serious effort, limited results -- Congress strikes out -- Raising the bar -- Roadblocks to change.

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