Educating the other America
Subtitle: top experts tackle poverty, literacy, and achievement in our schools
By: edited by Susan B. Neuman.
Contributors: Neuman, Susan B.
Publisher: Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co.; Paul H. Brookes Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781557669063
Subjects: Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States; Poor children -- Education -- United States; Educational equalization -- United States; Poverty -- United States
Description: Proposes a strategy to eliminate poverty in the United States by improving the education and literacy skills of children who live below the poverty line, and discusses the benefits of multisensory classrooms, a universal learning design, instruction for English language learners, education software, shared book reading programs, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the mediating mechanisms of the effects of poverty on reading achievement / Susan B. Neuman; title: Poverty and its consequences / Susan B. Neuman; title: Childhood poverty in economic and public policy contexts / Sandra K. Danziger and Sheldon Danziger; title: Childhood poverty, race, and equal opportunity / Mary Corcoran; title: How childhood poverty and income affect children's cognitive functioning and school achievement / Vonnie C. McLoyd and Kelly M. Purtell; title: Poverty, early literacy achievement, and education reform / Julia Parkinson and Brian Rowan; title: Literacy achievement in the primary grades in high-poverty schools / Louisa C. Moats and Barbara R. Foorman; title: Social and academic achievement of children and youth in urban, high-poverty neighborhoods / Charles R. Greenwood; title: How instruction can make a difference / Susan B. Neuman; title: Improving achievement for English language learners / Claude Goldenberg; title: Effective language instruction for African American children / Holly Craig; title: Shared book reading interventions / Deborah Simmonsle Rappolt-Schlichtmann; title: The dual coding theory / Allan Paivio; title: Success for all, embedded multimedia, and the teaching-learning orchestra / Robert Slavin, Nancy A. Madden, and Bette Chambers; title: How technology can make a difference / Susan B. Neuman; title: Design features in living books and their effects on young children's vocabulary / Adriana G. Bus ... et al.; title: The limits of the self-teaching hypotheses / Marilyn Jager Adams; title: Television and learning / Heather L. Kirkorian and Daniel R. Anderson; title: Maximizing informal learning from digital technologies / Sandra L. Calvert; title: The benefits of going green / Kathleen Roskos.