Ain't nobody learnin nothin : the fraud and the fix in high-poverty schools / Caleb Rossiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossiter, Caleb S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor children--Education--United States.

Poor children.

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

Children with social disabilities.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

America's most challenged families are segregated into high-poverty schools. Despite a 20-year experiment in nationwide school reform, few students make it over the slippery bridge to the middle class. In this book you will meet the students, families, teachers, and administrators who struggle inside this failed system, and consider proposals to give them a fighting chance.Using pseudonyms but real stories, Rossiter introduces the reader to fascinating students, families, teachers, and administrators who are caught up in a tragic cycle of poverty, dysfunction, and educational fraud. He shows why and how the result is half of the students dropping out and the other half graduating years behind and helpless before a community college curriculum.Rossiter then steps back and seeks solutions that would greatly increase the number of students making it to the promised land of the middle class. His solutions come from the same principle used by private schools and schools for wealthy families: build the school around the needs of the students. For high-poverty families, this means addressing the need to remain alive, healthy, and out of parenthood during the teenage years; it means building basic skills and then offering a real choice of college prep or vocational training,; it means separating students based on behavior and effort, so that the strong can achieve without disruption and the weak can received remediation and try again.Finally, Rossiter reviews efforts to address the underlying legacy of slavery, segregation, and racism that has created the culture of poverty. He offers solutions in this area as well, such as high-wage jobs programs for parents and programs that strengthen young families during pregnancy and then stimulate language development during the crucial first year of life.

Contents:

""Front ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Author�s Note""; ""Preface: No, I�m Not Kidding""; ""Chapter 1. Yes, There Is an Answer""; ""PART I. THE FRAUD""; ""Chap ter 2. Phony Grades""; ""Chapter 3. The Culture of Bla ck Poverty""; ""Chap ter 4. The Trauma of Bla ck Poverty""; ""Chapter 5. The Parents""; ""Chap ter 6. The Teachers""; ""Chapter 7. The Testing Class""; ""Chap ter 8. The Sports Trap for the Poor Bla ck Student""; ""Chap ter 9. Charter Schools : More of the Same""; ""PART 2. THE FIX""; ""Chapter 10. Tell the Truth: Eval uations that Work""

""Chap ter 11. Education for (Middle-Class ) Life""""Chap ter 12. The Choice: Was hington or Du Bois, Vocational or Coll ege Prep?""; ""Chap ter 13. Triage: Remediation for Misbehavior and Academic Shortfall""; ""Chap ter 14. Strengthening the Family: Jobs and Early Supp ort""; ""Chap ter 15. Thirty Years is Certainly Enough""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62894-104-9