children with social disabilities

Shares the stories of teachers who have overcome the challenges of teaching in high-poverty urban communities and explains how other teachers can adapt their methods and strategies for their own classrooms.

In this follow-up to her previous book It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, which profiled 15 successful schools, Chenoweth, an education writer who works for The Education Trust, explains how schools with high-poverty and high-minority student populations have improved student achievement and lowered achievement gaps. The volume provides specific information on how eight schools across the country (as well as the school system in Massachusetts) are succeeding, including public and charter elementary, junior, and high schools. Chapters share what educators have done in these schools and give advice to teachers and administrators on how to bring about academic success. All schools discussed have won the Dispelling the Myth award from The Education Trust. There is no bibliography. Annotation ?2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Chronicles the experiences of twelve South Central Los Angeles high school seniors in a program for gifted students, as well as their teachers and administrators, and discusses the potential ramifications of the elimination of affirmative action in California.

Offers an assortment of instructional strategies that are designed to help educators address the needs of students from diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Chronicles the development and achievements of Knowledge is Power Program, or KIPP, which consists of a nationwide network of free open-enrollment schools in low-income communities throughout the United States and was founded by Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg.

Explains how educators can conceptualize, plan, and implement an effective early literacy program, focusing on how to prevent reading difficulties and promote success in at-risk three to five year olds.

Marilyn Reynolds shares techniques she has used to turn unmotivated students into lifelong readers and offers teachers advice on how they can do the same for their students.

Describes one year in the life of children in the poorest congressional district in the United States, the South Bronx.

Examination of schools across the country whose children are from poor families in the inner city and the less affluent suburbs.