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America in Black and White

One Nation, Indivisible

By: Stephan Thernstrom,Abigail Thernstrom

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America in Black and White

One Nation, Indivisible

By: Stephan Thernstrom,Abigail Thernstrom

In a book destined to become a classic, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom present important new information about the positive changes that have been achieved and the measurable improvement in the lives of the majority of African-Americans. Supporting their conclusions with statistics on education, earnings, and housing, they argue that the perception of serious racial divisions in this country is outdated -- and dangerous.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439129096

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No Excuses

Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

By: Stephan Thernstrom,Abigail Thernstrom

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Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

By: Stephan Thernstrom,Abigail Thernstrom

Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, made closing the racial gap in education its central goal. An employer hiring the typical Black high school graduate or the college that admits the average Black student is choosing a youngster who has only an eighth-grade education. In most subjects, the majority of twelfth-grade Black students do not have even a "partial mastery" of the skills and knowledge that the authoritative National Assessment of Educational Progress calls "fundamental for proficient work" at their grade. No Excuses marshals facts to examine the depth of the problem, the inadequacy of conventional explanations, and the limited impact of Title I, Head Start, and other familiar reforms. Its message, however, is one of hope: Scattered across the country are excellent schools getting terrific results with high-needs kids. These rare schools share a distinctive vision of what great schooling looks like and are free of many of the constraints that compromise education in traditional public schools. In a society that espouses equal opportunity we still have a racially identifiable group of educational have-nots—young African Americans and Latinos whose opportunities in life will almost inevitably be limited by their inadequate education. When students leave high school without high school skills, their futures—and that of the nation—are in jeopardy. With successful schools already showing the way, no decent society can continue to turn a blind eye to such racial and ethnic inequality.

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1439127042

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America in Black and White

One Nation, Indivisible

By: Stephan Thernstrom,Abigail Thernstrom

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One Nation, Indivisible

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Beyond the Color Line

New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

By: Abigail Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom

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Beyond the Color Line

New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

By: Abigail Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom

Twenty-five essays covering a range of areas from religion and immigration to family structure and crime examine America's changing racial and ethnic scene. They clearly show that old civil rights strategies will not solve today's problems and offer a bold new civil rights agenda based on today's realities.

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Hoover Institution Press

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081799873X

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Poverty and Progress

Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City

By: Stephan THERNSTROM

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Poverty and Progress

Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City

By: Stephan THERNSTROM

Embedded in the consciousness of Americans throughout much of the country's history has been the American Dream: that every citizen, no matter how humble his beginnings, is free to climb to the top of the social and economic ladder. Poverty and Progress assesses the claims of the American Dream against the actual structure of economic and social opportunities in a typical nineteenth century industrial community--Newburyport, Massachusetts. Here is local history. With the aid of newspapers, census reports, and local tax, school, and savings bank records Stephan Thernstrom constructs a detailed and vivid portrait of working class life in Newburyport from 1850 to 1880, the critical years in which this old New England town was transformed into a booming industrial city. To determine how many self-made men there really were in the community, he traces the career patterns of hundreds of obscure laborers and their sons over this thirty year period, exploring in depth the differing mobility patterns of native-born and Irish immigrant workmen. Out of this analysis emerges the conclusion that opportunities for occupational mobility were distinctly limited. Common laborers and their sons were rarely able to attain middle class status, although many rose from unskilled to semiskilled or skilled occupations. But another kind of mobility was widespread. Men who remained in lowly laboring jobs were often strikingly successful in accumulating savings and purchasing homes and a plot of land. As a result, the working class was more easily integrated into the community; a new basis for social stability was produced which offset the disruptive influences that accompanied the first shock of urbanization and industrialization. Since Newburyport underwent changes common to other American cities, Thernstrom argues, his findings help to illuminate the social history of nineteenth century America and provide a new point of departure for gauging mobility trends in our society today. Correlating the Newburyport evidence with comparable studies of twentieth century cities, he refutes the popular belief that it is now more difficult to rise from the bottom of the social ladder than it was in the idyllic past. The "blocked mobility" theory was proposed by Lloyd Warner in his famous "Yankee City" studies of Newburyport; Thernstrom provides a thorough critique of the "Yankee City" volumes and of the ahistorical style of social research which they embody.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044312

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No Excuses

Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

By: Stephan Thernstrom,Abigail Thernstrom

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Poverty and Progress

Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City

By: Stephan THERNSTROM

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Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City

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Beyond the Color Line

New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

By: Abigail Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom

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New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

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Glimpses of the Harvard Past

By: Bernard Bailyn

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Glimpses of the Harvard Past

By: Bernard Bailyn

This book provides insights into a past still important today. The authors cover the origins of Harvard and the foundations of its character, structure, and style of governance; the shifting relationships and power struggles among faculty, administration, and students over the years; and the growing diversity of the student body.

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America in Black and White

America in Black and White

No Excuses

No Excuses

America in Black and White

America in Black and White

Beyond the Color Line

Beyond the Color Line

Poverty and Progress

Poverty and Progress

No Excuses

No Excuses

Poverty and Progress

Poverty and Progress

Beyond the Color Line

Beyond the Color Line

Glimpses of the Harvard Past

Glimpses of the Harvard Past

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