Making a Difference for Students at Risk: Trends and Alternatives / Edition 1

by Margaret C. Wang, Maynard C. Reynolds

Overview

The contributors to this forward-looking book examine the various programmes and approaches which have been implemented in inner city schools in the United States to address the special needs of disadvantaged, non-English speaking, gifted and dropout students. The book suggests that the primary reason such programmes have been largely unsuccessful is that they have not been properly coordinated.

Making a Difference for Students at Risk offers thoughtful, practical suggestions for new approaches aimed at not only reforming, but transforming, urban schools in order to achieve the inclusion of all students into general school programmes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803961883
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/16/1994
Series:	At Risk Students Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Margaret C Wang, Maynard C Reynolds and Herbert J Walberg
Inner-City Students at the Margins
Twice Victims - Marleen C Pugach
The Struggle To Educate Children in Urban Schools and the Reform of Special Education and Chapter 1
Commentaries - Kenneth K Wong and Martin E Orland
The Plight of High Ability Students in Urban Schools - Joseph S Renzulli et al
Commentaries - Barbara L Mc Combs and Brenda Lilienthal Welburn
Street Academies and In-School Alternatives to Suspension - Antoine M Garibaldi
Commentaries - Harriet Arvey and Edmund W Gordon
Alternatives and Marginal Students - Mary Anne Raywid
Commentaries - Ann Masten and Pauline Brooks
The Impact of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity on America's Schools - Eugene E Garcia
A Need for New Policy
Commentaries - Richard Ruiz and Kris D Gutierrez
Epilogue - Maynard C Reynolds, Margaret C Wang and Herbert J Walberg
A Summary of Recommendations