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Yes We Can: Closing the Achievement Gaps
March 10, 2009
Jane Waldfogel professor, social work and public policy, Columbia University
Richard Nisbett professor, University of Michigan
Ronald Ferguson faculty director, Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard

The authors of three recent books address how closing racial achievement gaps is indeed possible.

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Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages
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