"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children

As MacArthur award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us-and as all research shows-there is no achievement gap at birth. In her long-awaited second book, Delpit presents a striking picture of the elements of contemporary public education that conspire against the prospects for poor children of color, creating a persistent gap in achievement during the school years that has eluded several decades of reform.



Delpit's bestselling and paradigm-shifting first book, Other People's Children, focu...