From the MacArthur Awardwinning 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 schoolsAs MacArthur Awardwinning educator Lisa Delpit reminds usand as all research showsthere is no achievement gap at birth. In her long-awaited second book, Delpit presents a striking picture of the elements of contemporary public education that conspire against the prospects for poor children of color, creating a persistent gap in achievement during the school years that has eluded several decades of reform.
Delpit''s bestselling and paradigm-shifting first book, Other People''s Children, focused on cultural slippage in the classroom between white teachers and students of color. Now, in Multiplication Is for White People, Delpit reflects on two decades of reform effortsincluding No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the
