Background
Thernstrom, Stephan was born on November 5, 1934 in Port Huron, Michigan, United States. Son of Albert George and Bernadene (Robbins) Thernstrom.
(The Other Bostonians challenges many myths and assumption...)
The Other Bostonians challenges many myths and assumptions about the development of America. Newspapers and other familiar sources record the lives of only the prominent five percent of the population. Beyond these privileged few lie the millions who are born, live, and die unnoted by the chroniclers of their era. Now, with the assistance of computers and a team of researchers, Stephan Thernstrom has gone to the available records of these people, to the raw and uninterpreted data in old city directories, fading marriage license applications, and abandoned local tax records. He has assembled and analyzed this neglected body of evidence to provide one of the most thorough series of observations ever made on the patterns of migration and social mobility in a changing American community. "Thernstrom has written a superb book. It is the best and most ambitious analysis of social mobility yet to appear and will undoubtedly serves as a model for future studies." -American Historical Review "The best piece of quantitative history yet published. It is destined to be a highly influential book." -New York Times Book Review "This is an important book-indispensably important-for students of American social mobility." -American Journal of Sociology
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(The racial gap in academic performance between whites and...)
The racial gap in academic performance between whites and Asians, on the one hand, and Latinos and blacks, on the other hand, is America's most urgent educational problem. It is also the central civil rights issue of our time, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom. Unequal skills and knowledge are the main sources of ongoing racial inequality, and racial inequality is America's great unfinished business. A wide and tragic gap in learning is evident in affluent suburbs as well as inner cities. But great schools are scattered across the country, as described in inspiring detail by the Thernstroms. These schools are putting even the most highly disadvantaged children on the American ladder of economic opportunity. There are no good excuses for the perpetuation of long-standing inequalities, the Thernstroms argue eloquently. The problem can be solved, but conventional strategies will not work. Fundamental educational reform is needed. Carefully researched, accessibly written, and powerfully persuasive, this book offers both a close analysis of the current landscape and a blueprint for essential and overdue change.
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Thernstrom, Stephan was born on November 5, 1934 in Port Huron, Michigan, United States. Son of Albert George and Bernadene (Robbins) Thernstrom.
Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University, 1956. A.M., Harvard, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1962.
Instructor history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962-1966; assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966-1967; professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1981; Winthrop professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1981; Chairman of Commission on higher degrees in history of America civilization, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985-1992; professor, Brandeis U., 1967-1969; professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969-1973; Pitt. professor American history and institutions, Cambridge U., 1978-1979; director, Charles Warren Center for Research in American History, 1980-1983.
(The racial gap in academic performance between whites and...)
(The Other Bostonians challenges many myths and assumption...)
(Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City)
(Book by Thernstrom, Stephan)
Married Abigail Mann, January 3, 1959. Children– Melanie Rachel, Samuel Altgeld.