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Index
Cover
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Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface: Research, Policy and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents
I: Reframing Students Placed at Risk: A Historical Look
1 Students at Promise and Resilient: A Historical Look at Risk
2 Historical Trends in Federal Education Policies That Target Students Placed at Risk
3 Why do so Many Urban Public School Students Demonstrate so Little Academic Achievement?
II: Factors Influencing Resiliency and School Failure
4 Student-Teacher Relations and Academic Achievement in High School
5 Talent Loss Among High-Achieving Poor Students
6 Unpacking the Black Box of Tracking Decisions: Critical Tales of Families Navigating the Course Placement Process
III: Focus on African-American Students
7 Gender and the Effects of School, Family, and Church Support on the Academic Achievement of African-American Urban Adolescents
8 African-American Teachers and the Roles They Play
9 African-American Student Success in Independent Schools: A Model of Family, School, and Peer Influences
10 Creating a Climate for Diversity? The Institutional Response of Predominantly White Independent Schools to African-American Students
IV: From Research to Practice
11 Toward an Understanding of School Reconstitution as a Strategy to Educate Students Placed at Risk
12 Talent Development Middle Schools: Blueprints and Results for a Comprehensive Whole-School Reform Model
13 Fostering Resilience in High School Classrooms: A Study of the PASS Program (Promoting Achievement in School Through Sport)
14 Small Learning Communities Meet School-to-Work: Whole School Restructuring for Urban Comprehensive High Schools
15 Building School-Family-Community Partnerships in Middle and High Schools
Conclusion: Effective Schooling for Poor and Minority Adolescents: Refining the Focus
Author Index
Subject Index
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