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

• Pubblicazione: Albany, N.Y. : , : State University of New York Press, , 1993; ©1993
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 pages)
• Disciplina: 371.96/7
• Soggetto topico: Children with social disabilities - Education - United States
• Altri autori: DonmoyerRobert KosRaylene
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: At-risk students
• ISBN: 1-4384-0138-8; 0-585-07559-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814753403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy.