Book Review: Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

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" Book Review: Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap "
Murillo, Marco Antonio

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	938597
Doc. No	:	LA583903rp
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Murillo, Marco Antonio
Title & Author	:	Book Review: Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap [Article]\ Murillo, Marco Antonio
Title of Periodical	:	InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies
Volume/ Issue Number	:	10/2
Date	:	2014
Abstract	:	Addressing the “achievement gap” in academic performance has become prominent in educational reform efforts. However, too often, outcomes gathered from accountability measures are used to create hierarchies between students’ performance based on gender and race/ethnicity. In Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian American, and the Achievement Gap, Gilda L. Ochoa examines how a focus on the “achievement gap,” which she argues gives the “illusion” that inequality is being addressed by shifting the focus to high-stakes testing, hinders both Latina/o and Asian American students by ignoring structural and systemic injustices that “perpetuate hierarchical and binary thinking.”