{"product_id":"academic-profiling-gilda-l-ochoa-9780816687404","title":"Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In \u003ci\u003eAcademic Profiling\u003c\/i\u003e, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived every day, Ochoa turns to the students, teachers, and parents to learn about the very real disparities--in opportunity, status, treatment, and assumptions--that lead to more than just gaps in achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn candid and at times heart-wrenching detail, the students tell stories of encouragement and neglect on their paths to graduation. Separated by unequal middle schools and curriculum tracking, they are divided by race, class, and gender. While those channeled into an International Baccalaureate Program boast about Socratic classes and stress-release sessions, students left out of such programs commonly describe uninspired teaching and inaccessible counseling. Students unequally labeled encounter differential policing and assumptions based on their abilities--disparities compounded by the growth in the private tutoring industry that favors the already economically privileged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the entrenched inequality in today's schools, \u003ci\u003eAcademic Profiling\u003c\/i\u003e finds hope in the many ways students and teachers are affirming identities, creating alternative spaces, and fostering critical consciousness. When Ochoa shares the results of her research with the high school, we see the new possibilities--and limits--of change.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gilda L. Ochoa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816687404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816687404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2014 pg. 132","brand":"Gilda L. Ochoa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995617263871,"sku":"9780816687404","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0923a434-6c3b-4cbc-ad51-d240c44cc8fe.jpg?v=1683336826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/academic-profiling-gilda-l-ochoa-9780816687404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}