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BOOKS & COFFEE: A MONTHLY REVIEW OF BOOKS



The next meeting of Books & Coffee, a forum for public discussion, will be
held on Tuesday, February 8, at 7:30 PM at Chattz Coffee,  which is located
in the historic Park Plaza office building at 1010 Market Street, near the
downtown library. (The Chattz website is at http://www.chattz.com/.)



Our guest for the evening will be Lucien Ellington, who is UC Professor of
Education and co-director of the Asian Studies Program at UTC. He will be
commenting on Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom's controversial recent book, NO
EXCUSES: CLOSING THE RACIAL GAP IN LEARNING. The Thernstroms' book argues
that the poor performance of minority students in our schools is the single
most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today. Thus,
closing the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical
civil rights issue, and needs to be understood as a full-blown educational
and social crisis.



Please join us for this stimulating event. Books & Coffee is cosponsored by
UTC's SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities and Covenant College. The
event is open to the public and free of charge---as is the coffee.