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Multiplication Is for White People Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children

by Lisa Delpit
Multiplication Is for White People Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children

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As MacArthur award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us—and as all research shows—there 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 efforts—including No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movement—that have still left a generation of poor children of color feeling that higher educational achievement isn't for them.

In chapters covering primary, middle, and high school, as well as college, Delpit concludes that it's not that difficult to explain the persistence of the achievement gap. In her wonderful trademark style, punctuated with telling classroom anecdotes and informed by time spent at dozens of schools across the country, Delpit outlines an inspiring and uplifting blueprint for raising expectations for other people's children, based on the simple premise that multiplication—and every aspect of advanced education—is for everyone.

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“Here, finally, is multiculturalism with a human face.”

—Teacher Magazine

“A godsend . . . honest and fair, yet visionary and firm.”

—Quarterly Black Review

“Phenomenal . . . [Other Peoples Children] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice.”

—San Francisco Review of Books

“Inescapably enlightening and empowering.”

—Black Issues in Higher Education

“Powerful, trenchant, and compelling.”

—Choice

“[A]n important, yet typically avoided, discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms.”

—Harvard Educational Review

“Provocative . . . should stimulate rethinking the complexities of multicultural inclusiveness.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Argued with a voice of reason and experience.”

—Kirkus

“[Delpit] is a keen student of the way that ideas and practices take on new meanings in cultural contexts, including the context of unequal power.”

—The Nation

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“If all teachers adopted these ideas, the American educational system would be vastly improved for all students. Covering age groups from preschool to college, Delpit offers advice to new and veteran teachers, advice that applies not only to African American students but to all ethnic and minority groups. A much-needed review of the American educational system and an examination of the techniques needed to improve the teaching methods of all involved in that system.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“In this passionate book, Lisa Delpit argues thoughtfully and urgently for a new approach to the education of the children who are now left behind. We must heed her words of wisdom.”

—Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

“Once again Lisa Delpit dispels myths about the way in which African American children learn. She demonstrates how they can master complex concepts and succeed if racist systems get out of their way.”

—Herbert Kohl, 2010 Guggenheim Education Fellow, National Book Award winner, and author of 36 Children

“This book is an instant classic. By challenging us to reimagine the culture, politics, and practice of teaching our nations most vulnerable and marginalized students, Lisa Delpit raises the stakes of the current conversations on education yet again. Her scholarship is rigorous, her scope is wide-ranging, her writing is magical, and her hope is contagious.”

—Marc Lamont Hill, author of Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity

“'Multiplication Is for White People' compels readers to think deeply about why we allow assessment to drive instruction, why we have silenced discussion about inequality in public policy, and why outcomes continue to be so stubbornly correlated with race. At a time when profound thinking about solving America's education dilemmas is in short supply, Delpit has come to the rescue with a book that forces us to do just that.”

—Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University and author of The Trouble With Black Boys

Synopsis

Lisa Delpits paradigm-shifting first book Other Peoples Children won a Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association and Choice magazines Outstanding Academic book award; was voted one of Teacher Magazines “great books”; and has gone on to sell a quarter-million copies since its publication in 1996. Since then we have seen No Child Left Behind, an obsession with standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, the charter school movement,

and a host of other attempts to reform our nations public education system.

Two things we have not seen are an elimination of the achievement gap between

white and African American children—or a new book by Lisa Delpit.

Sure to be an instant classic, "Multiplication Is for White People" explores a wide range of little-known research that conclusively demonstrates there is no achievement gap at birth and argues that poor teaching, negative stereotypes about African American intellectual inferiority, and a curriculum that still does not adequately connect to poor childrens lives all conspire against the education prospects of poor children of color. In a major new book for her many impatient fans and admirers, Delpit brings the topic of educating other peoples children into the twenty-first century.


About the Author

MacArthur "genius" award winner Lisa Delpit's article on "Other People's Children" for Harvard Magazine was the single most requested reprint in the magazine's history following its publication. Delpit expanded her ideas into a groundbreaking book with the same name, which won a Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association, Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award, and was voted one of Teacher Magazine's "great books." A recipient of the Harvard School of Education's award for an Outstanding Contribution to Education, she is dedicated to providing excellent education to communities both in the United States and abroad. She is a co-editor of The Real Ebonics Debate, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right, and The Skin That We Speak(The New Press). Currently the Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at Southern University, she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Yes, Diane, Im Still Angry xv

Part One: Inherent Ability

1. There Is No Achievement Gap at Birth 3

2. Infinite Capacity 27

Part Two: Educating the Youngest

3. Stuff You Never Would Say: Successful Literacy

Instruction in Elementary Classrooms 53

4. Warm Demanders: The Importance of Teachers

in the Lives of Children of Poverty 71

5. Skin-Deep Learning: Teaching Those

Who Learn Differently 89

6. “I Dont Like It When They Dont Say My Name

Right”: Why “Reforming” Cant Mean “Whitening” 105

Part Three: Teaching Adolescents

7. Picking Up the Broom: Demanding Critical Thinking 123

8. How Would a Fool Do It? Assessment 137

9. Shooting Hoops: What Can We Learn About the

Drive for Excellence? 149

Part Four: University and Beyond

10. Invisibility, Disidentification, and Negotiating

Blackness on Campus 169

11. Will It Help the Sheep? University, Community,

and Purpose 193

Appendix 207

Notes 211


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Irisa Auzareja , August 31, 2012 (view all comments by Irisa Auzareja)
As a white person I found this book to be educational and informative. I mention that I am white as a lot of time when I try to learn about diversity issues, how to reach diverse audiences more effectively when teaching, how to improve my teaching of other cultures, etc. I end up feeling bad that I was born white. While I am certainly not proud of some of the things this dominant culture has done, I still want to be left hopeful and inspired that I can do more. What I also appreciate about Delpit's writing is that she addresses the education system for ALL students, not just those of color. I look forward to reading her other book-Teaching Other People's Children.

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ISBN:
9781595580467
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
03/20/2012
Publisher:
NEW PRESS
Pages:
256
Height:
.90IN
Width:
5.70IN
Thickness:
.75
Illustration:
Yes
Author:
Lisa Delpit
Author:
Delpit Lisa
Author:
Lisa Delpit
Subject:
Education-School Reform & Controversy

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