academic achievement

Provides practical advice for students on dealing with common problems like difficult subjects and teachers and overbooked schedules, including time-saving techniques and new study skills.

Gives children advice on being successful test takers.

Advises on writing "A" papers, selecting a major, building memory, earning good grades, and winning scholarships and grants.

Provides principals with positive strategies to assist teachers in adjusting curriculum, instruction, assessment, and feedback.

Describes strategies teachers may use to help young African-American males succeed in school by instilling them with self-worth.

Drawing on their years of experience in the classroom, the authors explain why culture makes the difference between a school that enables success for all students and a school that merely houses those students during the school day; and also provide nineteen action research tools that will help create a culture of achievement, so that a school or classroom is the best it can be.

Resource-based strategies and advice for promoting a positive transition to middle school, covering the roles of school administrators and faculty.

Responds to common criticisms of public schools, and discusses why some of the most common accusations about public schools are wrong.

Describes forty-nine strategies for effective teaching that can close the achievement gap and encourage and support college attendance, and includes a DVD-ROM.

Explains how teachers can combine sustained silent reading and instruction in subject-specific vocabulary terms to help students overcome deficiencies in background knowledge that hamper the academic achievements of many students.