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Author: Lisa D. Delpit
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1565841794

Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

By the year 2000, nearly 40 percent of the children in America's classrooms will be African American, Hispanic, Asian American, or Native American, yet most of those children's teachers will be white. Download Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In a radical and piercing analysis of what is going on in American classrooms today, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit suggests that many of the academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication as schools and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics of inequality plaguing our system. Winner of Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, the American Education Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, and one of Teacher Magazine's Great Books of Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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