Supplementary education : the hidden curriculum of high academic achievement / Edmund W. Gordon, Beatrice L. Bridglall, and Aundra Saa Meroe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Edmund W.

Contributor:

Bridglall, Beatrice L., 1968-

Meroe, Aundra Saa, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compensatory education--United States.

Compensatory education.

United States.

Children with social disabilities--Education--United States.

Children with social disabilities.

Children with social disabilities--Education.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Physical Description:

x, 357 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

This book makes the case and lays the conceptual foundation for the significance of supplementary education in reducing the academic achievement gap between majority students and students of color. It further elaborates on the idea of supplementary education, which is based on the assumption that high academic achievement is closely associated with exposure to family and community-based activities and learning experiences that occur outside of school in support of academic learning.

Contents:

Universal access to academic excellence / Donald M. Stewart

The challenge, context, and preconditions of academic development at high levels / Edmund W. Gordon & Beatrice L. Bridglall

After-school, youth development, and other forms of supplementary education / Beatrice L. Bridglall

Supplementation and supplantation as alternation education strategies / Edmund W. Gordon and Aundra Saa Meroe

Academic politicalization: supplementary education from black resistance / Edmund W. Gordon

Family environments in support of academic achievement / Richard Wolf

Supplementary education and the negotiation of socio-cultural marginality / Aundra Saa Meroe

A taxonomy of supplementary education programs / Beatrice L. Bridglall, Alan Green & Brenda Mejia

Varieties of supplementary education experiences

Beatrice L. Bridglall

Families as contractual partners in education / Hank M. Levin and Clive R. Belfield

Parents as advocates for education / Edmund W. Gordon, Patti Smith, and Beatrice L. Bridglall

Community and faith-based support for supplementary education

Maitrayee Bhattacharyya and Edmund W. Gordon

The institutionalization of supplementary education / Edmund W. Gordon & Beatrice L. Bridglall

Conceptual and practical issues of evaluating supplementary education programs / Edmund W. Gordon & Beatrice L. Bridglall

The idea of supplementary education / Edmund W. Gordon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742542602

0742542610

OCLC:

55054924