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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Schooling students placed at risk. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2000 (OCoLC)606333989 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mavis G Sanders |
| ISBN: | 0805830898 9780805830897 0805830901 9780805830903 |
| OCLC Number: | 42475719 |
| Description: | xxi, 387 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface: Research, policy and practice in the education of poor and minority adolescents / Mavis G. Sanders -- Reframing students placed at risk: a historical look. Students at promise and resilient: a historical look at risk / William Franklin -- Historical trends in federal education policies that target students placed at risk / Antoinette Mitchell -- Why do so many urban public school students demonstrate so little academic achievement? / Robert Balfanz -- Factors influencing resiliency and school failure. Student-teacher relations and academic achievement in high school / M.G. Sanders and Will J. Jordan -- Talent loss among high-achieving poor students / W.J. Jordan and Stephen B. Plank -- Unpacking the black box of tracking decisions: critical tales of families navigating the course placement process / Susan S. Yonezawa -- Focus on African-American students. Gender and the effects of school, family, and church support on the academic achievement of African-American urban adolescents / M.G. Sanders and Jerald R. Herting -- African-American teachers and the roles they play / A. Mitchell -- African-American student success in independent schools: a model of family, school, and peer influences / Robert Cooper and Amanda Datnow -- Creating a climate for diversity?: the institutional response of predominantly white independent schools to African-American students / A. Datnow and R. Cooper -- From research to practice. Toward an understanding of school reconstitution as a strategy to educate students placed at risk / Heinrich Mintrop -- Talent development middle schools: blueprints and results for a comprehensive whole-school reform model / Douglas J. MacIver ... [et al.] -- 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 -- Small learning communities meet school-to-work: whole school restructuring for urban comprehensive high schools / Nettie E. Legters -- Building school-family-community partnerships in middle and high schools / M.G. Sanders and Joyce L. Epstein -- Conclusion: Effective schooling for poor and minority adolescents: refining the focus / M.G. Sanders. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mavis G. Sanders. |
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