On poverty and learning : readings from Educational leadership / edited by Marge Scherer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scherer, Marge, 1945- editor.

Series:

EL essentials

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization.

Poor--Education.

Poor.

Effective teaching.

Educational sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 158 pages).

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, VA USA : ASCD, [2016]

Summary:

This collection of articles brings together fifteen insightful and passionate pieces that will help you better understand how poverty affects learning and what educators can do to make a positive difference for each learner every day.

Contents:

Overcoming the challenges of poverty / by Julie Landsman

The myth of the culture of poverty / by Paul Gorski

How poverty affects classroom engagement / by Eric Jensen

Whose problem is poverty? / by Richard Rothstein

On savage inequalities : a conversation with Jonathan Kozol / by Marge Scherer

Boosting achievement by pursuing diversity / by Halley Potter

When mobility disrupts learning / by Jean Louise M. Smith, Hank Fien, and Stan C. Paine

The American dream : slipping away? / by Susan B. Neuman

Think big, bigger ... and smaller / by Richard E. Nisbett

Students without homes / by Vicki S. Dill

Got books? / by Anne McGill Franzen and Richard Allington

Teaching the 22 percent / by Teresa M. Burke

Teachers who stare down poverty / by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Tough questions for tough times / by William Parrett and Kathleen Budge

Making a difference every day : a conversation with Salome Thomas-EL / by Naomi Thiers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 31, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781416623007

1416623000

9781416622291

1416622292

OCLC:

961187764