America's unseen kids
Subtitle: teaching English/language arts in today's forgotten high schools
By: Harold M. Foster, Megan C. Nosol ; foreword by Kylene Beers ; afterword by Robert E. Probst.
Contributors: Nosol, Megan C.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780325010601
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.; Language arts (Secondary) -- United States.; Urban youth -- Education (Secondary) -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-133) and index.
Table of contents: value: What people on the outside don't see: breaking the stereotypes; value: From rough draft to publication: teaching the writing process to urban kids; value: Connecting urban students to books: inventing and reinventing the reading workshop; value: Teaching Shakespeare in the urban classroom; value: Unfinished business: the future of America's urban school system.