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The Steinberg book is virtually the ONLY book out there that backs up
my research that race matters much more than income, and it's how
hard and seriously you work that matters much more than either since
their finding was that blacks did more poorly, and Asians did better 
in every district they looked at, and that Asians worked harder, but 
blacks less hard in every instance to earn their respectively higher 
or lower grade point averages and test scores. They didn't echo my
finding that in the one or two cases where minorities did work as 
hard, they appear to do as well as expected.

My National Review article, for those that missed it, is at

http://www.nationalreview.com/nationalreview/15sept97/hu091597.html

or email me for a copy.

> From:          DNC0654@iname.com
> Date:          Tue, 06 Jan 1998 22:44:50 -0600
> To:            brucec76@ix.netcom.com
> Cc:            4Education Consumers Clearhouse <education-consumers@tricon.net>
> Subject:       Steinberg

> by way of J. E. Stone wrote:
> > 
> > To all,
> > 
> > Long-term subscribers, please forgive me for being repetitive. On the
> > role of parents, not in a didactic sense, but in their role in the
> > overall success of their children, the best book I've read is Laurence
> > Steinberg's "Beyond the Classroom." The book is based on a long-term
> > study, and talks about not just the pre-K years that Arthur addresses,
> > but the messages that teachers, parents and society as a whole send to
> > students about the importance of education, and how that determines
> > whether they are either "engaged" or "disengaged."
> > 
> > BC
> > 
> 
> I couldn't agree with you more.  I have widely recommended Steinberg's
> book (now available in paperback) around our district and hope to get
> the PTO interested in promoting his thoughts.  If you missed it,
> Steinberg was the focus of one installment in the Merrow Report series
> on education broadcast over NPR.  The installment was entitled "Getting
> By".  For more info, see http://www.pbs.org/merrow/ and follow the radio
> show links.
> 
> The Merrow Report also had an installment featuring Drs. Ted Sizer and
> Dr. E.D. Hirsch, Jr., entitled "The Schools We Need".
> 
> Dave
> EDUCATION CONSUMERS CLEARINGHOUSE
>