Product Description: Little is known about the effects of schooling on parents, especially on those with children who struggle in school. As an educator whose work focuses on struggling students and as a parent of a daughter who has herself struggled, Curt Dudley-Marling has special insight into this issue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents progressive language projects from the perspective of their fates-what has happened to them in the real worlds of individual public schools, school districs, and insitutions. Through the expamples set by hardworking, dedicated parents, teachers, and administrators, these stories encourage the language educatiors working against the grain to heighten their awareness of their won contexts and to keep heart as they engage in progressive language projects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Despite growing evidence that all students will benefit from engaging and challenging instruction, many struggling students continue to experience a circumscribed curriculum that emphasizes low-level skills. Featuring contributions from emerging and well-known researchers, this important volume is about the enactment of high-expectation curricula in everyday practice. Chapters document specific classroom strategies that make a difference in the learning of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and cultural and linguistic minority communities. While the book focuses on language and literacy instruction, key chapters on math and science also demonstrate high-expectation teaching across the curriculum. Book Features: A broad framework for creating high-expectation curricula in underperforming K–12 schools. Clear illustrations of what alternative literacy practices look like. Powerful examples of rich math and science instruction. Research-based strategies for second language learners, students with disabilities, and struggling readers. An incisive critique of the “deficit-driven” curricula that dominates in underachieving schools and classrooms.

Product Description: Literacy Through Language Arts (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: It is generally taken for granted that human behavior distributes along the lines of a bell-shaped, normal curve. This idea underpins much educational theory, research, and practice. There is, however, a considerable body of research demonstrating that the normal curve grossly misrepresents the human experience...read more

Product Description: When the first edition of Readers and Writers with a Difference appeared in 1988, it shattered the myth that whole language instruction was too unstructured and inexplicit to help remedial and learning disabled students. By providing specific assessment and instructional strategies, it was one of the first texts to show that struggling readers and writers could, indeed, benefit from holistic methods-not just in the resource room, but in the regular classroom as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)