Striving To Succeed, Daring to Fail
The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And there are latent fears about whether the achievement gap can be closed. These fears were stirred recently by John McWhorter, a 34-year-old African-American linguistics professor (University of California) whose book, Losing the Race, raises the question of self-sabotage. […]