Kids Don\'t Want to Fail uses empirical evidence to refute the widely accepted hypothesis that the Black-White Achievement gap in secondary schools is due to a cultural resistance to schooling in the black community.
The author finds that inadequate elementary school preparation-not negative attitude-accounts for black students\' underperformance..
Kids Don\'t Want to Fail uses empirical evidence to refute the widely accepted hypothesis that the Black-White Achievement gap in secondary schools is due to a cultural resistance to schooling in the black community