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Schooling students placed at risk : research, policy, and practice in the education of poor and minority adolescents

Title
Schooling students placed at risk : research, policy, and practice in the education of poor and minority adolescents / edited by Mavis G. Sanders.
Publication
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Sanders, Mavis G.
Description
xxi, 387 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Children with social disabilities > Education (Secondary) > United States
  • Minorities > Education (Secondary) > United States
  • Teenagers with social disabilities > Education (Secondary) > United States
  • Minority teenagers > Education (Secondary) > United States
  • Adolescents socialement défavorisés > Enseignement secondaire > États-Unis
  • Adolescents issus des minorités > Enseignement secondaire > États-Unis
  • Minorités > Enseignement secondaire > États-Unis
  • 81.21 social inequality in education
  • Children with social disabilities > Education (Secondary)
  • Minorities > Education (Secondary)
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Schüler
  • Unterprivilegierung
  • Unterricht
  • Achtergestelden
  • Leerlingen
  • Onderwijsbeleid
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Foreword / A. Wade Boykin -- Preface: Research, Policy and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents / Mavis G. Sanders -- I. Reframing Students Placed at Risk: A Historical Look. 1. Students at Promise and Resilient: A Historical Look at Risk / William Franklin. 2. Historical Trends in Federal Education Policies That Target Students Placed at Risk / Antoinette Mitchell. 3. Why do so Many Urban Public School Students Demonstrate so Little Academic Achievement? / Robert Balfanz -- II. Factors Influence Resiliency and School Failure. 4. Student-Teacher Relations and Academic Achievement in High School / Mavis G. Sanders and Will J. Jordan. 5. Talent Loss Among High-Achieving Poor Students / Will J. Jordan and Stephen B. Plank. 6. Unpacking the Black Box of Tracking Decisions: Critical Tales of Families Navigating the Course Placement Process / Susan S. Yonezawa -- III. Focus on African-American Students. 7. Gender and the Effects of School, Family, and Church Support on the Academic Achievement of African-American Urban Adolescents / Mavis G. Sanders and Jerald R. Herting. 8. African-American Teachers and the Role They Play / Antoinette Mitchell. 9. African-American Student Success in Independent Schools: A Model of Family, School, and Peer Influences / Robert Cooper and Amanda Datnow. 10.
  • Creating a Climate for Diversity? The Institutional Response of Predominantly White Independent Schools to African-American Students / Amanda Datnow and Robert Cooper -- IV. From Research to Practice. 11. Toward an Understanding of School Reconstitution as a Strategy to Educate Students Placed at Risk / Heinrich Mintrop. 12. Talent Development Middle Schools: Blueprints and Results for a Comprehensive Whole-School Reform Model / Douglas J. MacIver, Martha A. MacIver and Robert Balfanz / [et al.]. 13. Fostering Resilience in High School Classrooms: A Study of the PASS Program (Promoting Achievement in School Through Sport) / Crystal McClendon, Saundra Murray Nettles and Allan Wigfield. 14. Small Learning Communities Meet School-to-Work: Whole School Restructuring for Urban Comprehensive High Schools / Nettie E. Legters. 15. Building School-Family-Community Partnerships in Middle and High Schools / Mavis G. Sanders and Joyce L. Epstein -- Conclusion: Effective Schooling for Poor and Minority Adolescents: Refining the Focus / Mavis G. Sanders.
ISBN
  • 0805830898
  • 9780805830897
  • 0805830901
  • 9780805830903
LCCN
99048452
OCLC
  • ocm42475719
  • 42475719
  • SCSB-8921792
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library