Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)

 通過五年的價值訪談和數據收集的江景，當學生從小學發展到初中到高中，他們的學習成績水平日益沿著種族線，白人和亞裔學生保持較高的GPA和標準化考試的分數，並實現更好的大學錄取結果，相較於黑人和拉丁裔同儕。

戴蒙和路易斯不尋求大多數研究的做法，一直專注於貧窮、家庭的穩定度去解釋學校業績不佳的外力因素。並期待在學校裡探討那些因素本身可能會造成差距。

最關鍵的是，他們挑戰“種族成就差距”，探索何謂"種族"的意義在這種情況下，以及解釋。

Through five years' worth of interviews and data-gathering at Riverview, John Diamond and Amanda Lewis have created a rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation. As students progress from elementary school to middle school to high school, their level of academic achievement increasingly tracks along racial lines, with white and Asian students maintaining higher GPAs and standardized testing scores, taking more advanced classes, and attaining better college admission results than their black and Latino counterparts. Most research to date has focused on the role of poverty, family stability, and other external influences in explaining poor performance at school, especially in urban contexts. Diamond and Lewis instead situate their research in a suburban school, and look at what factors within the school itself could be causing the disparity. Most crucially, they challenge many common explanations of the 'racial achievement gap,' exploring what race actually means in this situation, and why it matters.

  John Diamond(Autor)

Publisher: OUP USA 

ISBN:  978-0195342727 

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