Effort and excellence in urban classrooms : expecting, and getting, success with all students / Dick Corbett, Bruce Wilson & Belinda Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbett, H. Dickson, 1950-

Contributor:

Wilson, Bruce L., 1949-

Williams, Belinda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Urban--United States.

Education, Urban.

United States.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Effective teaching--United States.

Effective teaching.

Physical Description:

vii, 178 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press ; Washington, D.C. : NEA Professional Library, [2002]

Summary:

This timely volume 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.

Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms demonstrates just how this was done by including:

-- In-depth descriptions of classrooms and schools where students began succeeding when educators assumed the responsibility for their learning

-- Data-based discussion of teachers' views on parental involvement in schools and parents' views of teachers' and schools' actions on behalf of students

-- Identification of the kinds of support that schools and districts must provide if educators are to be successful

-- An unrelenting emphasis on how educators enabled students to be motivated and to produce high-quality work

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-165) and index.

ISBN:

0807742163

0807742171

OCLC:

48710900