"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People¿s Children

Lisa Delpit’s paradigm-shifting first book Other People’s Children won a Critics’ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association and Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic book award; was voted one of Teacher Magazine’s “great books”; and has gone on to sell a quarter-million copies since its publication in 1996. Since then we have seen No Child Left Behind, an obsession with standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, th…