No one is more eminently qualified with authority,exceptional talent, intellectual courage and experience as an inner cityeducator to tackle the challenges and demands placed upon urban education inthis new millennium than Dr. Jack Washington in his No Excuses: The Crises inUrban Education in the New Millennium. He confronts the crises in America's urbanschools in an all encompassing way with no compromises, no nonsense and"No excuses". The book is a paradigm shift from old millennium to anew millennium that is engrossing, compelling, pragmatic, at times disturbing,but always authentic.
This book should be required reading for everyone involved in making educationaldecisions at all levels of government, as well as those majoring in educationin institutions of higher learning , school administrators, local boards ofeducation, teachers at all grade levels, and parents.
Jack Washington is a gifted, perceptive writer. His book is an academicmasterpiece whose time has surely come.
Dr. Jeanette J. Purdy, Professor Emeriti
Mercer County College, New Jersey
I thoroughly enjoyed Jack Washington'sNo Excuses: The Crises in Urban Education in the New Millennium. He moves fromthe "back of the bus" to the "head of the class", callingfor an academic transformation in urban education by challenging black studentsto higher achievement levels, acade4mic rigor, creative ideas, ne attitudes andgreater expectations to be competitive and to survive in the new globalmarketplace for the 21st century. It takes courage to write a book like thisone: and Jack pulls no punches, excludes nothing a no one, makes nocompromises, talks no nonsense, and accepts No Excuses. This book isenslaving , liberating, commanding, engrossing, thought-provoking, profound,challenging, pragmatic, at times disturbing, but always authentic. No Excusesis an educational masterpiece that "must-read" for everyone involvedin education at any level.
Dr. Jeanette J. Purdy
Professor Emeriti
Mercer County College
This book should be required reading for everyone involved in making educationaldecisions at all levels of government, as well as those majoring in educationin institutions of higher learning , school administrators, local boards ofeducation, teachers at all grade levels, and parents.
Jack Washington is a gifted, perceptive writer. His book is an academicmasterpiece whose time has surely come.
Dr. Jeanette J. Purdy, Professor Emeriti
Mercer County College, New Jersey
I thoroughly enjoyed Jack Washington'sNo Excuses: The Crises in Urban Education in the New Millennium. He moves fromthe "back of the bus" to the "head of the class", callingfor an academic transformation in urban education by challenging black studentsto higher achievement levels, acade4mic rigor, creative ideas, ne attitudes andgreater expectations to be competitive and to survive in the new globalmarketplace for the 21st century. It takes courage to write a book like thisone: and Jack pulls no punches, excludes nothing a no one, makes nocompromises, talks no nonsense, and accepts No Excuses. This book isenslaving , liberating, commanding, engrossing, thought-provoking, profound,challenging, pragmatic, at times disturbing, but always authentic. No Excusesis an educational masterpiece that "must-read" for everyone involvedin education at any level.
Dr. Jeanette J. Purdy
Professor Emeriti
Mercer County College
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