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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778702103321

Titolo

At-risk students : portraits, policies, programs, and practices / / edited by Robert Donmoyer and Raylene Kos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y. : , : State University of New York Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-4384-0138-8

0-585-07559-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages)

Collana

SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy

Altri autori (Persone)

DonmoyerRobert

KosRaylene

Disciplina

371.96/7

Soggetti

Children with social disabilities - Education - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1. PORTRAITS; 1. At-Risk Students: Insights from/about Research by Robert Donmoyer and Raylene Kos; 2. The Purpose of Portraits: Rethinking the Form and Function of Research on at-Risk Students by Robert Donmoyer; 3. ""Nobody knows my life but me!"" The Story of Ben, a Reading Disabled Adolescent by Raylene Kos; 4. Ways of Being at Risk: The Case of Billy Charles Barnett by Thomas Barone; 5. Ellen, a Deferring Learner by Karin L. Dahl; 6. Andy and Libby: At Risk or Undervalued? by Karen L. Ford

7. Karen: An Interaction of Gender Role and Reading Disability by Raylene Kos; 8. ""Something to keep the relationship holding"": Victoria, a Pregnant Adolescent by Kathryn Herr; 9. Andrew: The Story of a Gifted at-Risk Student by June Yennie-Donmoyer; 10. Alston and Everetta: Too Risky for School? by James T. Sears; 11. Paul: Differentiating Disorder and Intervention by John J. Gleason; PART II. POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND PRACTICES; 12. Structuring for Idiosyncracy: Rethinking Policies, Programs, and Practices for at-Risk Students by Robert Donmoyer

13. Placing Children at Risk: Schools Respond to Reading Problems by Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen; 14. ""Teacher, why am I failing? I know the answers"": The Effects of Developmentally Inappropriate Assessment by Pamela O. Fleege and Rosalind



Charlesworth; 15. ""A Different Kind of Responsibility"" Social and Academic Engagement of General-Track High School Students by Sandra B. Damico and Jeffrey Roth; 16. Direction with Discretion: Reading Recovery as an Example of Balancing Top-down and Bottom-up Decision Making by Patricia L. Scharer and Nancy C. Zajano

17. In the Shadow of the Excellence Reports: School Restructuring for at-Risk Students by Andrew Gitlin, Frank Margonis, and Heather Brunjes18. Emergent Spanish Literacy in a Whole Language Bilingual Classroom by Irene Alicia Serna and Sarah Hudelson; 19. ""It's Not a Perfect World"": Defining Success and Failure at Central Park East Secondary School by Mark A. Faust; 20. Creating a Culture of Writers with at-Risk Students by June Yennie-Donmoyer and Robert Donmoyer; 21. A Teacher Reflects on his Urban Classroom by Art Isennagle

22. The Risk of Writing Outside the Margins: A Reexamination of the Notion of Access by Bonnie Meath-Lang; 23. A Policy Perspective: Overcoming Gridlock Beyond Schools by Brad Mitchell; POSTSCRIPT: IN SEARCH OF A BOTTOM LINE; REFERENCES; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Children's Books Cited; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; INDEx