Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools
by Angela Calabrese Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan, Erin Turner, and Maura Varley Varley Gutirrez
As teachers, parents and counsellors cope with the roller-coaster of early adolescence, too few stop to ask students how they feel about these critical years. Here, students from diverse backgrounds offer insights into what it takes to make classrooms more effective and how to forge stronger relationships between young adolescents and adults. Students tackle critical topics such as social, emotional and academic pressure, classroom behaviour and preparing for higher education. Invaluable resourc...
This book, authored by K-4 elementary educators, working at a publicly funded non-profit charter school, illustrates the power of culturally responsive teaching and learning as it becomes embedded in the New York State Education Curriculum. Educators, families, and community members contributed to this unique program with the goal of enhancing learning environments by applying the languages and cultures of their students in their classrooms. Strong, carefully attentive, school leadership encour...
Teacher Preparation at the Intersection of Race and Poverty in Today's Schools
Teacher Preparation at the Intersection of Race and Poverty in Today's Schools introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful works by authors that represent current thinking about teacher preparation. Importantly, the book is divided into two primary sections, the first being four chapters that offer understanding of the depth and breadth of the intersection of race and poverty as it relates to teaching and teacher preparation. The second section presents Dialogues of Teacher Education foc...
Enciclopedia illustrata del Liberty a Milano Padova Vol. 2 PADOVA, 127-Z (Liberty, #31)
by Maurizio Om Ongaro
L'evoluzione urbanistica a Milano attraverso mappe d'epoca dall'Unita d'Italia agli anni '30
by Maurizio Om Ongaro
The Hard Truth: Problems and Issues in Urban School Reform
by Sean Yisrael
Failing at School (Series On School Reform)
by A Farrington Camille and Camille A Farrington
About half of all incoming ninth graders in urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma. Failing at School starts with the premise that urban American high schools generate such widespread student failure not because of some fault of the students who attend them but because high schools were designed to stratify achievement and let only the top performers advance to higher levels of education. This is particularly true for low-income, racial/ethnic minority studen...
Enciclopedia illustrata del Liberty a Milano Risorgimento 3 (Liberty, #38)
by Maurizio Om Ongaro