[PDF.62bh] Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap

Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap

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 | #606293 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2011-06-13 |  2011-05-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.24 x.97 x6.50l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| comprehensive and sophisticated treatment of an important issue|By CL|Harris' book is the best quantitative empirical study of the "oppositional culture" hypothesis yet, by far. He gives in depth, sophisticated, and comprehensive treatment to almost every conceivable angle of the hypothesis. But he manages to make his analysis accessible to readers who aren't trained in quant| |Kids Don't Want to Fail is quite remarkable in its detail, care, and depth as a critical empirical examination of the oppositionality hypothesis: the widely held belief that black student underachievement is attributable to a cultural resistance to scho

Understanding the causes of the racial achievement gap in American education―and then addressing it with effective programs―is one of the most urgent problems communities and educators face.

For many years, the most popular explanation for the achievement gap has been the “oppositional culture theory”: the idea that black students underperform in secondary schools because of a group culture that devalues learning and sees academic effort as &ldq...

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