The nutshell: After spending decades interviewing and observing African-American students and their teachers, Southern University education scholar Delpit believes that the single best way to close the achievement gap in education is to raise our expectations for black students.

Literary lovechild of: Jonathan Kozol’s The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

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