While race and culture remain important variables in how young people experience schools, they are often misunderstood by educators and school personnel. Building on three studies that investigated schools successful in closing the achievement gap, Tyrone Howard shows how adopting greater awareness and comprehensive understanding of race and culture can improve educational outcomes.
Important reading for anyone who is genuinely committed to promoting educational equity and excellence for all children, this accessible book:
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“This book is at times disheartening and at other times inspiring; sometimes anguishing but always enlightening.”
—From the Foreword by
Geneva Gay,
University of Washington–Seattle
“Tyrone Howard provides a multi-dimensional and textured look at why students of color continue to struggle in the nation's schools. However, he does not stop there. This book points toward the solutions we have been seeking—partnerships, principles, and persistence.”
—
Gloria Ladson-Billings
, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tyrone C. Howard is associate professor of education in the division of urban schooling, and faculty director of Center X in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA.
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