Reaching and teaching students in poverty : strategies for erasing the opportunity gap /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gorski, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2013]
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.