num_pages: 256
description: As MacArthur award-winning 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 creation of alternative teacher certification paths and the charter school movementthat 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 multiplicationand every aspect of advanced educationis for everyone.
language: English
title: "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
publisher: The New Press