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Product Description An updated edition of the classic revolutionary analysis of the role of race in the classroom Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary paperback edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne. In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award–winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better cultural transmitters” in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and other people’s children” struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system. A new classic among educators, Other People’s Children is a must-read for teachers, administrators, and parents striving to improve the quality of America’s education system. Review "A godsend . . . honest and fair, yet visionary and firm." — Quarterly Black Review "Phenomonal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice." — The San Francisco Review of Books "Here, finally, is multiculturalism with a human face." — Teacher Magazine "Provides an important, yet typically avoided, discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms." — Harvard Educational Review About the Author Lisa Delpit is an Eminent Scholar and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Education and Innovation at Florida International University in Miami, where she lives. Her work is dedicated to providing excellent education for marginalized communities in the United States and abroad. Herb Kohl is a recipient of the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was the founder and first director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in New York City and established the PEN West Center in San Francisco, where he lives. He is the author of more than forty books, including the bestselling 36 Children and the classic I Won’t Learn from You” (The New Press). Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction SCENE I Carolyn is a young Irish-American kindergarten teacher who has been teaching for five years. The school at which she has taught has been a predominantly white, middle-class school in a quiet neighborhood in New England. However, because of recent redistricting, the school population now includes children from a housing project not far away. These children are almost exclusively poor and black. Thus, Carolyn and the other teachers in the school are newly faced with a population of children with whom they are completely unfamiliar. I am working on a research project with Carolyn. She has asked me to observe a little boy named Anthony, a five-year-old black child from the projects,” whom she has defined as a child with behavioral, learning, and language problems. She wants to use the results of my observations to get him help.” In my observations of Anthony in the classroom, I have noticed that he gets almost no positive feedback during the course of a day, and instead receives a tremendous number of negative comments. I have taken Anthony out into the hallway several times to talk and play privately so as to get a better assessment of his actual abilities. The following dialogue is taken from a transcript of my conference with Carolyn about my observations. I am attempting to point out some of Anthony’s positive points to Carolyn: L: Anthony told me that he liked school and that his favorite thing in his class was group time. C: That’s amazing, since he can’t sit sti
