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Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools (Jossey-Bass Education)

Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
Category: Digital Book Service

Buy New: $2.49

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews

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Media: Digital
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1

Dewey Decimal Number: 379.26
ASIN: B000WZU9SQ

Publication Date: March 31, 2006
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Unfinished Business illuminates the challenges in overcoming the current inequities in public education. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, this book exposes a "tale of two schools" where students walk through the same high school doors but remain racially and academically segregated within?a condition mirrored in urban schools and districts across the nation. The authors offer a hopeful, yet urgent, call to invest in youth on the front side of life and to hold fast to the vision of a future where all children can truly learn, achieve, and dream to their highest potential.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

recommended core information October 17, 2008
for parents teachers and students. This book answers the questions I always though someone else already asked, I just didn't know where to find the answers. It's a must read.

5 out of 5 stars

Unique in its own diversity November 20, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful

An excellent book, unique in its own diversity. The "Book Description" and "Inside Flap" above give a good description of how this book is about the science of the research and organizing of the Berkeley High School Diversity Project, I just wanted to add a little about how the telling of the book itself expresses an understanding of diversity.

To me, the book is about the importance of education for everyone in our diverse society and how one project, one school, one community looked into achieving this education. My view is that the way Unfinished Business accomplishes this is by presenting highly researched data through both the analysis of the researchers and the writings of the people who are the data -- the students, the parents, the teachers, the school staff. Additionally, the book's content encompasses research, school and community use and understanding of research, and personal reflection. I was continually surprised at where the "plot" of the book went -- at the discoveries, the observations, and conclusions I did not expect to read. This is an important book about the process of education and civil rights.