Abigail Thernstrom

About The Author

Abigail Thernstrom is a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York. She is the author of Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights and, with her husband, Stephan, of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible.

Books by Abigail Thernstrom

No Excuses

Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom
Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critica...
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America in Black and White

One Nation, Indivisible

By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom
Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom make the claim that there have been great strides regarding the history of racism and argue that perhaps all will be equal in time.
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