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"Barnett and Boocock present a multi-disciplinary assessment of the long-term outcomes of early care and education in the United States and abroad. Innovative new research, together with up-to-date, comprehensive reviews, provide lessons for the design of early childhood programs, policies, and research. Contributors from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and economics address questions about the causal relationships through which early...

A woman describes her abusive childhood, her life as a Playboy model, and how she rediscovered her faith while helping impoverished children in Haiti.

This program takes viewers into elementary classrooms where teachers attend to the social, emotional, and academic needs of their students. It shows examples of elementary teachers engaging their students in standards-based instruction while providing scaffolds and strategies that ensure success both in and out of the classroom.

This is a book about how a system designed to help children is instead helping to destroy them. By trying to preserve families, Patrick Murphy charges, the child welfare system is too often placing children in danger. State agencies and the courts are stuck in hundred-year-old realities and the politics of the 1960s and the 1970s. As the Public Guardian of Cook County, Illinois (an office unique in the United States), Mr. Murphy for almost thirty...

"Susan B. Neuman explains in this insightful, revealing book, that schools will fail, not due to the "soft bigotry of low expectations," but because there are multitudes of children growing up in circumstances that make them highly vulnerable. Children who come to school from dramatically unequal circumstances leave school with similarly unequal skills and abilities." "In these pages, Neuman shows how the odds can be changed, how we can break the...

Current models do not address the complexity of achievement gaps among racial and socioeconomic groups. As the National Task Force on Minority High Achievement and current assessment data show, children of color, even those who are not poor, often score lower on achievement tests than whites who are poor. Culture trumps poverty in its impact on achievement. Culture defines what children will focus their attention on, how they interpret the world to...

"In personal profiles of ten families across the nation, from a Pacific Islander family in Hawaii to a homeless family in a wealthy New York City suburb, journalist Martha Shirk depicts the realities of life for children below the poverty line. She takes readers deep into the lives of families in poverty - lives sometimes marked by childhood abuse, parental loss, and long-term violence - and with each family explores their prospects for moving above...

Urban schools share the same concerns as other schools, especially regarding issues of pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment. How these issues are addressed in the urban school setting, however, presents unique challenges and opportunities for teaching and learning. Literacy Development of Students in Urban Schools: Research and Policy presents a comprehensive view of the issues and perspectives that affect the literacy education of urban students....

Here's the easiest, most powerful way to demonstrate exactly how to implement the breakthrough ideas and strategies from the best-selling ASCD book Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind by renowned author and learning expert Eric Jensen. This compelling video brings Eric Jensen's strategies to life by going in-depth to tell the stories of two elementary schools, Georgetown East Elementary in Annapolis, Maryland, and Blackburn Elementary in Palmetto,...

This powerful book shows the many unintended ways in which social and educational policy can shape, if not constrain, the work of educating students. Focusing on the creation and history of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) from its inception in 1965 to the present, Stein shows how underlying assumptions of policymakers and bureaucratic red tape actually interfere with both educational practice and the goals of the legislation...