Nancy Brown Diggs

Breaking the Cycle

How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

America's failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture-and it is-this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.

Produktdetails

• New Frontiers in Education
• Verlag: R&L Education
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9781475806113
• ISBN-10: 1475806116
• Artikelnr.: 38536676

Autorenporträt

By Nancy Brown Diggs

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Introduction Part I: Challenges Chapter 1
Drugs Chapter 2
Violence Chapter 3
Single Mothers Chapter 4
"Acting White" Chapter 5
Inadequate Schools Part II: Overcoming the Challenges Chapter 6
DECA: The Family Chapter 7
The Miracle Workers Chapter 8
Academics Chapter 9
Raising the Bar Chapter 10
Bumps in the Road Conclusion References