Product Description: ''Camille Farrington details how high schools trap students along developmental trajectories distorted by structural factors resources, values and practices beyond their control. Grounded firmly in research, she describes a better way forward...read more

Many of our schools are failing our children. Frequently, "normal" children are experiencing difficulties coping and learning in their traditional school setting. The author of Hidden Dangers identifies the roadblocks that contribute to failing schools. These subtle school issues appear to unintentionally reinforce an increase in school related violence, diagnosis of learning disabilities, ADHD, depression, and other behavioral and emotional problems, and meager attainment of basic skills in reading, writing, and mathematics. By developing a strong foundation of the needs for a healthy school climate and challenging and changing faulty assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, policies, and practices that guide failing schools, the author deftly offers a solution for changing failing schools into thriving schools.This book is the culmination of years of solid teaching, testing, and counseling experience combined with a well-researched perspective. It is helpful for all educators, psychologists, parents, coaches, and all those working with children; even for the children who are struggling in failing schools. Hidden Dangers: Subtle Signs of Failing Schools guides us toward developing balanced schools where children learn and like to be, and where professionals can take pride in doing their best work and ultimately have a very positive impact on our society as whole.

Product Description: This new edition of the best-selling Chicano School Failure and Success, has been updated and expanded to provide state-of-the-art coverage of the Chicano school experience. The contributors include experts in the fields of anthropology, psychology, educational history and policy, special education, and child and family studies, reflecting the wide and complex range of issues affecting Chicano school students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today s urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods. Charles M. Payne argues that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organizational environments of urban schools and school systems. The result is that liberals and conservatives alike have spent a great deal of time pursuing questions of limited practical value in the effort to improve city schools.Payne carefully delineates these stubborn and intertwined sources of failure in urban school reform efforts of the past two decades. Yet while his book is unsparing in its exploration of the troubled recent history of urban school reform, Payne also describes himself as guardedly optimistic. He describes how, in the last decade, we have developed real insights into the roots of school failure, and into how some individual schools manage to improve. He also examines recent progress in understanding how particular urban districts have established successful reforms on a larger scale.

A critical exposé of how politics and special interests are compromising the American educational system reveals how parents can use consumer power to safeguard their children's interests, in a call to action that argues for increased accountability, school leader competence, and a reduction in union and bureaucrat decision-making powers.

A startling exposT of the American failure to educate its citizens indicts an education establishment that has set low academic standards, ignored teacher training, practiced grade inflation, and over-psychologized education at the expense of the students. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Deficit thinking refers to the notion that students, particularly low income minority students, fail in school because they and their families experience deficiencies that obstruct the leaning process (e.g. limited intelligence, lack of motivation, inadequate home socialization)...read more

Product Description: '...The Purpose of this book is to review research on the most widely proposed alternatives intended to keep at-risk students from failing in the early grades...'-from the Preface.

Product Description: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Research findings by the National Commission on Excellence, the Children's Defense Fund, and the College Board, among others, suggest that much work remains to be done to upgrade the educational experience and performance of the fastest growing segment of the American school population, blacks and other minorities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems, and of the inability of schools to meet the current challenges of contemporary life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)