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Challenges Facing Suburban Schools
Promising Responses to Changing Student Populations
- 150 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Challenges Facing Suburban Schools
Promising Responses to Changing Student Populations
About this book
This coedited book describes the impact that an increasingly diverse student population has on 21st century suburban schools. It also presents what can and should be done to help K-12 school district administrators and teachers address this growing phenomenon across the nation. This eight-chapter book:
provides a demographic, political, economic, and sociological overview of the changing nature of suburban schools describes the nature of student diversity in the changing suburbs and issues with student achievement identifies administrative responsibilities and program structures for working with a changing student populationproposes ways to reduce the achievement gap, most notably in literacylooks at how to use "whole child" assessment protocols to provide support for such studentsdelves into parent inequities within changing suburban districts and offers ideas for closing the parent gap.This book is written for school district administrators, teachers, legislators, policy makers, teacher educators, and educational researchers for developing programs and pathways for a segment of the student and parent population that now is living in suburban areas without traditional roots as advantaged suburbanites.
provides a demographic, political, economic, and sociological overview of the changing nature of suburban schools describes the nature of student diversity in the changing suburbs and issues with student achievement identifies administrative responsibilities and program structures for working with a changing student populationproposes ways to reduce the achievement gap, most notably in literacylooks at how to use "whole child" assessment protocols to provide support for such studentsdelves into parent inequities within changing suburban districts and offers ideas for closing the parent gap.This book is written for school district administrators, teachers, legislators, policy makers, teacher educators, and educational researchers for developing programs and pathways for a segment of the student and parent population that now is living in suburban areas without traditional roots as advantaged suburbanites.
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Yes, you can access Challenges Facing Suburban Schools by Shelley B. Wepner,Diane W. Gomez in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Demography and Educational Politics in the Changing Suburbs
- 2 Race, Ethnicity, and Social Capital in the Changing Suburbs
- 3 Administratorsā Accountabilities in Changing Suburban Schools
- 4 Lessons for Leaders about Educating English Learners
- 5 A Conceptual Framework for the Educational Success of Dual Language Learners
- 6 Effective Literacy Instruction for English Learners
- 7 Data-Driven Decisions on Effective Performance Measures of English Learners
- 8 Closing the Parent Gap in Changing School Districts
- About the Authors