Kids Don’t Want to Fail uses empirical evidence to refute the widely accepted hypothesis that the black-white achievement gap in secondary schools is due to a cultural resistance to schooling in the black community. The author finds that inadequate elementary school preparation—not negative attitude—accounts for black students’ underperformance.
- ISBN13 9780674060999
- Publish Date 13 July 2011 (first published 13 June 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 336
- Language English
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