children with social disabilities

"Learn how educators combine research with proven practices and actions to disrupt the adverse effects of poverty on students' academic achievement and lives"--.

"The authors illuminate how to raise student achievement by upholding high expectations, while teaching with cultural responsiveness. Discover how to: lead all students to deeper learning, grounded in critical thinking, creative problem solving, communication, collaboration--and the '5th C,' [and] cultural awareness"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the philosophies and practices of the American education system, arguing that low student test scores result from a mistaken emphasis at the elementary level on context-free reading skills and strategies rather than content-rich curricula that give students knowledge about the world.

Examination of how the public education system short changes poor children through underfunded, understaffed, and underequipped schools.

Social skills lessons, presented in the form of short mysteries, for young people, with each chapter focusing on a specific topic. Readers are encouraged to help solve social problems, fill out worksheets, etc.

". . . explores the power of stories to heal children from troubled backgrounds and offers .. . strategies for helping students discover and write about their own stories of strength and survival . . ."--Back cover.

Class and Education looks closely at the relationships between education and class, covering topics like public and private schools and funding, the voucher system, the correlation between class and higher education, and what might be done to lessen the educational achievement gap between classes.