About the Program
Abigail Thernstrom discusses the book "No Excuses: Closing of the Racial Gap in Real Learning" in an interview from 2003. In the book that she co-authored with her husband Stephan Thernstrom, she sheds light upon the academic underachievement of Blacks and Hispanics. The Thernstroms visited several inner city schools that are coined "bread the mold schools" in which the education and test scores are exceptionally high, and they link this to an absence of bureaucracy.
Abigail Thernstrom
Abigail Thernstrom has co-authored several books with her husband, Stephan Thernstrom, including "America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible." Ms. Thernstrom's 1987 work, "Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights" won four awards, including the Benchmark Book Award from the Center for Judicial Studies, and the Anisfield-Wolf prize for the best book on race and ethnicity. She serves as a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and a vice-chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights.
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