Readings Academic Achievement Gap Study Circles
Readings for January 22, 2009 (ntroduction and the role of family and environment) : Achievement Gap, published by Education Week. Perry, Theresa. “Competing Theories of Group Achievement,” in “Young, Gifted and Black.” Beacon Press 2003. Gosa, Travis, Alexander, Karl. Family (Dis)Advantage and the Educational Prospects of Better Off Supplementary readings: Annette Lareau. Invisible inequality: Social class and childbearing in black families and white families” in American Sociological Review; Oct 2002 Tough, Paul. Unequal Childhoods chapter in “Whatever it Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America.” Houghton-Miflin, 2008. pp 21-52.
Readings for January 29, 2009 http://www.twotowns.org/Steele.PDF
Readings for February 5, 2009 http://www.twotowns.org/Tenenbaum.pdf
Supplemental readings:
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