Educating the other America : top experts tackle poverty, literacy, and achievement in our schools /
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Baltimore :
Paul H. Brookes Pub.,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the mediating mechanisms of the effects of poverty on reading achievement / Susan B. Neuman
- Poverty and its consequences / Susan B. Neuman
- Childhood poverty in economic and public policy contexts / Sandra K. Danziger and Sheldon H. Danziger
- Childhood poverty, race, and equal opportunity / Mary Corcoran
- How childhood poverty and income affect children's cognitive functioning and school achievement / Vonnie C. McLoyd and Kelly M. Purtell
- Poverty, early literacy achievement, and education reform / Julia Parkinson and Brian Rowan
- Literacy achievement in the primary grades in high-poverty schools / Louisa C. Moats and Barbara R. Foorman
- Social and academic achievement of children and youth in urban, high-poverty neighborhoods / Charles R. Greenwood
- How instruction can make a difference / Susan B. Neuman
- Improving achievement for English language learners / Claude Goldenberg
- Effective language instruction for African American children / Holly K. Craig
- Shared book reading interventions / Deborah C. Simmons ... [et al.]
- The dual coding theory / Allan Paivio
- Success for all, embedded multimedia, and the teaching-learning orchestra / Robert E. Slavin, Nancy A. Madden, and Bette Chambers
- How technology can make a difference / Susan B. Neuman
- Design features in living books and their effects on young children's vocabulary / Adriana G. Bus ... [et al.]
- The limits of the self-teaching hypotheses / Marilyn Jager Adams
- Television and learning / Heather L. Kirkorian and Daniel R. Anderson
- Maximizing informal learning from digital technologies / Sandra L. Calvert
- The benefits of going green / Kathleen A. Roskos.