Unfinished business
Subtitle: closing the racial achievement gap in our schools
By: Pedro Noguera & Jean Yonemura Wing, editors.
Contributors: Noguera, Pedro.; Wing, Jean Yonemura, 1949-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jossey-Bass education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780787972752
Subjects: Educational equalization -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States; Minorities -- Education -- United States
Description: "In this book, co-editors Pedro Noguera and Jean Yonemura Wing and their collaborators investigated the dynamics of race and achievement at Berkeley High School - a large public high school that the New York Times called "the most integrated high school in America." Berkeley's diverse student population clearly illustrates the "achievement gap" phenomenon in our schools. Unfinished Business brings to light the hidden inequities of schools - where cultural attitudes, academic tracking, curricular access, and after-school activities serve as sorting mechanisms that set students on paths of success or failure."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: the structure and culture of inequality in schools; title: Introduction: unfinished business : closing the achievement gap at Berkeley High School / Pedro A. Noguera; title: 1. Structuring inequality at Berkeley High / Beth C. Rubin, Jean Yonemura Wing, Pedro A. Noguera, Emma Fuentes, Daniel Liou, Alicia P. Rodriguez, Lance T. McCready; title: 2. Integration across campus, segregation across classrooms : a close-up look at privilege / Jean Yonemura Wing; title: 3. The discipline gap and the normalization of failure / Anne Gregory, Kysa Nygreen, Dana Moran; title: Part two: Agency in the fight for equity; title: 4. Changing teacher practice and student outcomes / Pharmicia Mosely; title: Teacher voices / Dana Moran, Lashawn Routé-Chatmon, Miriam K. Stahl, Tamara Friedman, Leslie Pletner, Susannah Bell, Magi Discoe, Jim Dopman; title: 5. Creating demand for equity : transforming the role of parents in schools / Lashawn Routé-Chatmon, Katrina Scott-George, Anne K. Okahara, Emma Fuentes; title: Parent voices : Isabel Parra, Julina Bastidas-Bonilla, Michael D. Miller, Juana Villegas, Vikki Davis, Liz Fuentes, Valerie B. Yerger; title: 6. Songs of experience : student reflections on four years at Berkeley High / Elena Silva; title: Student voices / Nabila Lester, Joey Christiano, Jimmy Thong Tran, Pranoumphone (Pam) Pradachith, Jamie McMaryion, Shabnam Piryaei, Niles Xi'an Lichtenstein; title: Conclusion : lessons learned  : the limits and possibilities of using research to counter racial inequality / Pedro A. Noguera; title: Epilogue : Finishing school, by Jabari Mahiri.