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"The core argument of Jean Anyon's classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail. With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 publication left off, including a completely new chapter detailing...
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"Anne Haas Dyson broadens our vision of the kinds of language experiences that can and do contribute to school literacy success. in addition, Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools' socioculturally diverse population. this two-year ethnographic study of K-3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed "at risk" and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy...
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Argues that without fundamental change in government and business policies and restoring political power and economic opportunities to inner-city residents and the redirection of major resources back into the schools and the communities they serve, urban schools are consigned to failure, and no effort at raising standards, improving teaching, or boosting achievement can occur.
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Despite years of reform, a persistent achievement gap remains between students in urban schools and elsewhere. Recognizing that goal setting and good intentions cannot close the gap, the authors provide a research-based synthesis of the dynamics that contribute to urban students' academic achievement patterns.
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