Product Description: This field-tested resource outlines effective approaches for improving student learning, proficiency, and achievement at all levels through learning-focused priorities, results-driven practices, and high academic expectations.

The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty examines critical studies on high-performing, high-poverty schools to identify how schools can fulfill the mission of educating all students to proficiency, especially students at risk. The authors identify eight best practices and then further break those down into specific strategies, often using real-life examples from successful schools. The titles of chapters 4 11 correspond to the eight best practices of high-performing, high-poverty schools identified by the research. Each chapter begins by comparing the Old World of education with the New World of education to show how best practices can revolutionize teaching and learning. Next each chapter outlines specific strategies to implement the practices at the district, school, and classroom levels. Each chapter concludes with a rubric that readers can use to evaluate the progress of their school or district.

Product Description: Formerly a SkyLight publicationThis valuable resource offers fifty strategies for meeting the challenges faced by today's students and their schools, and is alive with the voices of students, teachers, and administrators.

Product Description: Hope Fulfilled for At-Risk and Violent Youth is a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on how schools are teaching all students effectively. The book looks at the crisis of a growing underclass of students who arrive at school under-prepared to learn, fail to learn effectively, drop out of school and live out their lives unemployed, underemployed, unemployable, and too often in prison...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Provides a review of new information regarding at-risk youth, including a synthesis of current research, evaluation of effective school programs and practices, description of promising practices still being evaluated, and a collection of the author's personal anecdotes and experiences with teacher...read more