Reaching and teaching students in poverty : strategies for erasing the opportunity gap /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Imagining equitable classrooms and schools for low-income youth : an equity literacy approach
- The inequality mess we're in : a class and poverty primer
- The trouble with the "culture of poverty" and other stereotypes about people in poverty
- Class inequities beyond school walls and why they matter at school
- The achievement--er, opportunity--gap in school
- Been there, done that, didn't work : the most popular ineffective strategies for teaching students in poverty
- What works (when adapted to your specific context, of course) : instructional strategies that are effective, equitable, and even data-driven
- The mother of all strategies : committing to working with rather than on families in poverty
- Expanding our spheres of influence : advocating for school, district, regional, and national change for the educational good.