Making School Count
Subtitle: Promoting Urban Student Motivation and Success
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: November 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780415230544
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Racism & racial discrimination; Remedial teaching; Social research & statistics; Teaching of ethnic minorities; Teaching skills & techniques; Students & Student Life; Educational innovations; Education In Urban Areas; Education Of Black Students; Education / Teaching; Research; Education; Multicultural Education; Experimental Methods; Education / General; United States; African American students; Case studies; Motivation in education
First sentence: The notes above were the reflections of the first author of this book, Karen Teel, as she pondered her predominantly African American, inner-city students' behavior in her eighth grade US History class and how she could convince them to do their very best, thereby making school count.