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Effort and excellence in urban classrooms : expecting, and getting, success with all students

Title
Effort and excellence in urban classrooms : expecting, and getting, success with all students / Dick Corbett, Bruce Wilson & Belinda Williams.
Author
Corbett, H. Dickson, 1950-
Publication
New York : Teachers College Press ; Washington, D.C. : NEA Professional Library, ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Wilson, Bruce L., 1949-
  • Williams, Belinda.
Description
vii, 178 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Reveals in great detail how educators closed the "performance gap" for low-income students by linking expectations and results. Drawing heavily on the words and experiences of students, teachers, and parents, this book describes how students who traditionally had not succeeded academically in school began to do so.
Subject
  • Education, Urban > United States
  • Academic achievement > United States
  • Effective teaching > United States
  • Academic achievement
  • Education, Urban
  • Effective teaching
  • Großstadt
  • Qualitätssteigerung
  • Schule
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165) and index.
Contents
The different meanings of "All children can succeed" -- Parents' and teachers' beliefs about each other's role in educating students -- Taking responsibility for effort and excellence in the classroom -- Granite Junior High School -- Ridgecrest Elementary -- The meaning of an "It's my job" belief -- Becoming a school where all children can succeed.
ISBN
  • 0807742163
  • 9780807742167
  • 0807742171
  • 9780807742174
LCCN
2001060366
OCLC
  • ocm48710900
  • 48710900
  • SCSB-8920222
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library