Tue, 18 September 2007 No excuses, Closing the Racial Gap in Learning Books of Our Time host, Lawrence Velvel interviews authors Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom whose thesis is that while educational opportunity may have risen generally, some minorities are still largely excluded and underrepresented in all educational levels. The authors posit that white and Asian students have significantlyhigher accomplishment levels, even though African-American and Hispanic students achieve the same grade levels. The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss, for subscriptions, or http://mslaw.libsyn.com, for direct downloads. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video. Comments[5] |
