Books written by Lisa Delpit
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Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for a campaign to guarantee a quality education for ...
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Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
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Teaching When the World Is on Fire
Climate change? Confederate statue controversies? Immigration? Hate speech? In Teaching When the World Is on Fire, Delpit turns to a host of crucial issues facing teachers in these tumultuous times.
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The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children
In The Real Ebonics Debate some of our most important educators, linguists, and writers, as well as teachers and students reporting from the field, examine the lessons of the Ebonics controversy and unravel the complex issues at the heart ...
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"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People s Children
As award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us—and as all research shows—there is no achievement gap at birth.
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Teaching When the World Is on Fire
Climate change? Confederate statue controversies? Immigration? Hate speech? In Teaching When the World Is on Fire, Delpit turns to a host of crucial issues facing teachers in these tumultuous times.
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The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system.