Stuck in the Shallow End Free

Author: Jane Margolis
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ISBN: 0262514044

Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing

The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. Download Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. She finds an insidious "virtual segregation" that maintains inequality. Two of th Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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