Susan J. Paik, Herbert J. Walberg (eds): Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students

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Susan J. Paik and Herbert J. Walberg, editors of Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students, assemble papers from a national invitational conference that focused on the importance of education for minority children. The book is organized in three parts that deal with (a) culturally diverse families and schooling; (b) histories, issues of immigration, and schooling experiences; and (c) socio-cultural issues on teaching, learning, and development. Each part contains a separate chapter dealing with issues for students from Latino, Black, and Asian backgrounds. The purpose of the conference and subsequent book was to unite interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and policy makers in understanding the achievement gap for each of the three largest minority groups in the United States from multiple perspectives and varied theoretical foundations. This purpose was founded on the belief that research should be useful to scholars, educators, and those who influence policy. …