Learning Never Stops! » schools http://www.shzbql.org Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:49:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Race, Culture, and Schooling: Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools http://www.shzbql.org/8957-race-culture-and-schooling-identities-of-achievement-in-multicultural-urban-schools http://www.shzbql.org/8957-race-culture-and-schooling-identities-of-achievement-in-multicultural-urban-schools#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:49:37 +0000 admin http://www.shzbql.org/8957-race-culture-and-schooling-identities-of-achievement-in-multicultural-urban-schools

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Responding to a need for greater cultural competence in the preparation and development of teachers in diverse public school settings, this book investigates the critical developmental and social processes mediating students’ academic identities in those settings posing the greatest challenges to their school achievement and personal development. It provides an accessible, practice-oriented culturally responsive framework for teachers in American schools.
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Race, Culture, and Schooling: Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools

]]> http://www.shzbql.org/8957-race-culture-and-schooling-identities-of-achievement-in-multicultural-urban-schools/feed 0 Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms http://www.shzbql.org/8931-why-race-and-culture-matter-in-schools-closing-the-achievement-gap-in-americas-classrooms http://www.shzbql.org/8931-why-race-and-culture-matter-in-schools-closing-the-achievement-gap-in-americas-classrooms#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:49:47 +0000 admin http://www.shzbql.org/8931-why-race-and-culture-matter-in-schools-closing-the-achievement-gap-in-americas-classrooms

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While race and culture remain important variables in how young people experience schools, they are often misunderstood by educators and school personnel. Building on the work of three studies that investigated schools successful in closing the achievement gap, Tyrone Howard shows how adopting greater awareness and comprehensive understanding of race and culture can improve educational outcomes. Important reading for anyone who is genuinely committed to promoting edu… More >>

Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms

]]> http://www.shzbql.org/8931-why-race-and-culture-matter-in-schools-closing-the-achievement-gap-in-americas-classrooms/feed 0 The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans During the Civil Rights Movement http://www.shzbql.org/8910-the-other-struggle-for-equal-schools-mexican-americans-during-the-civil-rights-movement http://www.shzbql.org/8910-the-other-struggle-for-equal-schools-mexican-americans-during-the-civil-rights-movement#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:49:40 +0000 admin http://www.shzbql.org/8910-the-other-struggle-for-equal-schools-mexican-americans-during-the-civil-rights-movement

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Examining the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in the Southwest in general and in a California community in particular, Donato challenges conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims, accepting their educational fates. He looks at how Mexican American parents confronted the relative tranquility of school governance, how educators responded to increasing numbers of Mexican Americans in schools, how school off… More >>

The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans During the Civil Rights Movement

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