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Title Unfinished business : closing the racial achievement gap in our schools / Pedro A. Noguera, Jean Yonemura Wing, editors.

Imprint San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  379.26 Un2 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xviii, 318 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and index.
Contents Part one: the structure and culture of inequality in schools -- Introduction: unfinished business : closing the achievement gap at Berkeley High School / Pedro A. Noguera, Jean Yonemura Wing -- Structuring inequality at Berkeley High / Beth C. Rubin ... [et al.] -- Integration across campus, segregation across classrooms : a close-up look at privilege / Jean Yonemura Wing -- Discipline gap and the normalization of failure / Anne Gregory, Kysa Nygreen, Dana Moran -- Part two: Agency in the fight for equity -- Changing teacher practice and student outcomes / Pharmicia Mosely -- Teacher voices / Dana Moran ... [et al.] -- Creating demand for equity : transforming the role of parents in schools / LaShawn Route-Chatmon ... [et al.] -- Parent voices : Isabel Parra ... [et al.] -- Songs of experience : student reflections on four years at Berkeley High / Elena Silva -- Student voices / Nabila Lester ... [et al.] -- Conclusion : lessons learned : the limits and possibilities of using research to counter racial inequality / Pedro A. Noguera -- Epilogue : Finishing school / Jabari Mahiri.
Subject Educational equalization -- United States.
Academic achievement -- United States.
Minorities -- Education -- United States.
Added Author Noguera, Pedro.
Wing, Jean Yonemura, 1949-
ISBN 0787972754 (alk. paper)
9780787972752
Standard No. IG# 0787972754
YDXCP 2250840
NZ1 10570808

 
    
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