Stuck in the shallow end education race and computing the mit press margolis jane estrella rachel goode joanna holme jennifer jellison nao kim 9780262514040 amazoncom books. Stuck in the shallow end is a non fiction book based on a research project about how flaws in our american education system hinder many students of ethnic and racial minority heritage from accessing quality education in the area of computing and technology. Stuck in the shallow end race education and computing date december 4 2008 speaker and has written widely about the gender and race gap in computer science margolis is the author of many journal articles and books including unlocking the clubhouse women in computing related info research labs microsoft research lab redmond. When i agreed to read and comment onstuck in the shallow end education race and computingi could not have imagined that a researchbased document could have stirred such visceral reactions from sorrow to rage from despair to hope the book tells stories about the struggle of young people to make a place for themselves in a knowledge based economy through the study of computing about expectations and assumptions of capacity based on the race gender or social class of students about