Schooling students placed at risk : research, policy, and practice in the education of poor and minority adolescents / edited by Mavis G. Sanders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanders, Mavis G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Students with social disabilities--Education (Secondary)--United States.

Students with social disabilities.

Education, Secondary.

Minorities--Education (Secondary).

United States.

Minorities--Education (Secondary)--United States.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

xxi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2000.

Summary:

Continues and expands the intellectual exchange among researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and concerned citizens on factors influencing the achievement of poor and minority youth, specifically students in middle and high schools.

Contents:

Preface: Research, Policy and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents / Mavis G. Sanders xv

I Reframing Students Placed at Risk: a Historical Look

1 Students at Promise and Resilient: A Historical Look at Risk / William Franklin 3

2 Historical Trends in Federal Education Policies That Target Students Placed at Risk / Antoinette Mitchell 17

3 Why do so Many Urban Public School Students Demonstrate so Little Academic Achievement? / Robert Balfanz 37

II Factors Influencing Resiliency and School Failure

4 Student-Teacher Relations and Academic Achievement in High School / Mavis G. Sanders, Will J. Jordan 65

5 Talent Loss Among High-Achieving Poor Students / Will J. Jordan, Stephen B. Plank 83

6 Unpacking the Black Box of Tracking Decisions: Critical Tales of Families Navigating the Course Placement Process / Susan S. Yonezawa 109

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, Jerald R. Herting 141

8 African-American Teachers and the Roles They Play / Antoinette Mitchell 163

9 African-American Student Success in Independent Schools: A Model of Family, School, and Peer Influences / Robert Cooper, Amanda Datnow 187

10 Creating a Climate for Diversity? The Institutional Response of Predominantly White Independent Schools to African-American Students / Amanda Datnow, Robert Cooper 207

IV From Research to Practice

11 Toward an Understanding of School Reconstitution as a Strategy to Educate Students Placed at Risk / Heinrich Mintrop 231

12 Talent Development Middle Schools: Blueprints and Results for a Comprehensive Whole-School Reform Model / Douglas J. MacIver, Martha A. MacIver, Robert Balfanz, Stephen B. Plank, Allen Ruby 261

13 Fostering Resilience in High School Classrooms: A Study of the PASS Program (Promoting Achievement in School Through Sport) / Crystal McClendon, Saundra Murray Nettles, Allan Wigfield 289

14 Small Learning Communities Meet School-to-Work: Whole School Restructuring for Urban Comprehensive High Schools / Nettie E. Legters 309

15 Building School-Family-Community Partnerships in Middle and High Schools / Mavis G. Sanders, Joyce L. Epstein 339

Conclusion: Effective Schooling for Poor and Minority Adolescents: Refining the Focus / Mavis G. Sanders 363.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805830898

0805830901

OCLC:

42475719