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No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning Simon & Schuster, (October 2003) by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom
REVIEWS
*Los Angeles Times Names No Excuses One of the Best Books of 2003
What's Wrong With America's Schools (subscription required) by Timothy A. Hacsi, New York Times, 1-4-04
Class Acts by Richard D. Kahlenberg, Washington Post, 11-30-03
Playing Race Card Without Apology by Joanne Jacobs, San Jose Mercury News, 11-30-03
The Learning Gap by Martin Morse Wooster, Washington Times 11-25-03
A Hard Look at What Works by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report, 11-24-03
Authors attempt to bridge 'Racial Gap in Learning' by Rob Mitchell, Boston Herald, 11-23-03
Chartering the Future by Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times, 11-20-03
Another Excuse for Failure by Thomas Bray, New York Sun, 11-10-03
The Charter Boom (subscription required) Wall Street Journal, 11-3-03
Left Behind (fee required) by Kim Marshall, Boston Globe, 11-2-03
The Academic Gap in Starkest Black and White by James Traub, LA Times, 11-02-03
Educating Black Children: Why Culture Matters (subscription required) by Stuart Taylor, National Journal, 11-1-03
Minority Report (fee required) by Leslie Lenkowsky, Commentary, November 2003
Book Cites Role of Culture in Achievement Gap (free subscription required) by Karla Scoon Reid, Education Week, 10-29-03
No excuses part II by Walter E. Williams, 10-29-03
The Anti-Excusers by Jay Nordlinger, The National Review, 10-27-03
No more excuses for the parents (subscription only) by Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 10-26-03
Closing the Racial Gap in Learning: What Does Not Work (subscription required) by Stuart Taylor, National Journal, 10-25-03
The most important book of the year by Mona Charen, 10-24-03
How the Other Half Learns by Peter Schrag, The Nation, 10-23-03
Review of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Jay Mathews, The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2003
No Excuses by Walter E. Williams, 10-22-03
For lousy schools, no excuses by Bill Murchison, 10-21-03
Asking Tough Questions, Debunking Old Answers by Andrew Wolf, New York Sun, 10-14-03
An Attitude Gap by William Raspberry, The Washington Post, 10-13-03
Book Explores Racial Gap in Education (fee required) by Rich Barlow, Boston Globe, 10-12-03
''No Excuses'' for Great Teachers, Great Schools by Lawrence Henry, The American Spectator on the Web, 10-9-03
Stop making excuses: Close the learning gap by Matt Rosenberg, The Seattle Times, 10-8-03
Leaving black kids behind by Rich Lowry, 10-9-03
A Lot More to Learn by Clint Bolick, Wall Street Journal, 10-9-03
Will Anything Work? by Nathan Glazer, The New Republic, 10-13-03 - 10-20-03
A Gap That Won't Go Away on Its Own by William Raspberry, Washington Post, 10-6-03
Race and Education: An Exclusive Interview with Abigail Thernstrom by George A. Clowes, School Reform News, October 2003
School performances: Part III by Thomas Sowell, 9-26-03
The Education Gadfly 9-25-03
Review of No Excuses by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom by Thomas Sowell, 9-24-03
SAT ABC’s Wall Street Journal, 8-29-03
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