Educating at-risk students
By: edited by Sam Stringfield and Deborah Land.
Contributors: Stringfield, Sam, ed.; Land, Deborah, ed.; National Society for the Study of Education.
Series: One hundred-first Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- pt. 2; Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 101st, pt. 2.
Publisher: NSSE; Distributed by University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Special education.; Risk perception.; Dropouts -- Prevention.; Student assistance programs.; Problem youth -- Education.; Juvenile delinquents -- Education.; School management and organization.
Other titles: Educating at risk students
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Section one: Conditions of risk. Extent and consequences of risk in U.S. education / Deborah Land and Nettie Legters; value: Resiliency among students at risk of academic failure / Hersh C. Waxman, John P. Gray, and Yolanda N. Padrón; value: Issues in educating African American children and youth / Robert J. Jagers and Grace Carroll; value: Issues in educating Hispanic students / Yolanda N. Padrón, Hersh C. Waxman, and Héctor H. Rivera; value: Section two: Educating at-risk students from preschool through high school. Educating preschool and kindergarten children at risk / Barbara A. Wasik, Mary Alice Bond, and Annemarie Hindman; value: Intentional school : effective elementary education for all children / Robert E. Slavin; value: Essential components and next steps for comprehensive whole school reform in high poverty middle schools / Robert Balfanz, Allen Ruby, and Douglas Mac Iver; value: Promising solutions for the least productive American high schools / James M. McPartland ... [et al.]; value: Section three: Looking beyond traditional practices for at-risk students. Involving families and communities in educating children and youth / Mavis G. Sanders ... [et al.]; value: Toward universal literacy / Robert Rueda and Ellen McIntyre; value: Technology, education and at-risk students / Richard Durán; value: Section four: Systemic supports for improving at-risk schools. Title I : the evolution and effectiveness of compensatory educaton / Geoffrey D. Borman; value: New roles for career and technical preparation programs in educating at-risk students / James R. Stone III and Marisa Castellano; value: Systemic supports for schools serving students placed at risk / Sam Stringfield and Amanda Datnow.