Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools Audiobook (Free)

On the surface, Riverview SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL appears like the post-racial ideal. Offering an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal area, the school is normally well-funded, its educators are well-trained, and many of its college students are high attaining. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues academic institutions throughout America: exactly why is it that even though every one of the conditions seem right, dark and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers?

Through five years’ worthy of of about Regardless of the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Great Schools interviews and data-gathering at Riverview, John Diamond and Amanda Lewis have created a wealthy and troubling portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than 50 years after the formal dismantling of segregation. As college students progress from primary college to middle school to high school, their degree of educational achievement increasingly paths along racial lines, with white and Asian learners preserving higher GPAs and standardized testing scores, taking more complex classes, and attaining better college admission results than their black and Latino counterparts.

An in-depth study with far-reaching implications, Despite the Best Motives revolutionizes our understanding of both the knotty problem of academic disparities and the larger question of the colour series in American society.