Posted by Toni

Stocking up for one last weekend of summer reading I discovered that Lisa Delpit, one of my all time favorite Education authors, has finally published a follow-up to her 1995 classic Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom.  Twenty pages into  her "Multiplication is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children she reframes one of the most persistent concerns in schools today.  Delpit writes,  "... the achievement gap should not be considered the gap between black children's performance and white children's performance...but rather between black children's performance and these same children's exponentially greater potential."  How would teaching change if we all saw it that way?

She explains the origin of her title, and a bit about her research here: