Making School Count
Subtitle: Promoting Urban Student Motivation and Success
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: November 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780415230551
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Remedial teaching; Social research & statistics; Teaching of ethnic minorities; Teaching skills & techniques; Motivation in education; Education / Teaching; United States; Education; Students & Student Life; Multicultural Education; Experimental Methods; Research; Education / General; African American students; Case studies; Educational innovations
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 eight grade US History class and how she could convince them to do their very best, thereby making school count.