Nancy Brown Diggs

Breaking the Cycle

How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

America's failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture-and it is-this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: R&L Education
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9781475806113
• ISBN-10: 1475806116
• Artikelnr.: 38536676

Autorenporträt

Nancy Brown Diggs is an independent scholar whose long interest in different cultures is reflected by her doctorate in East Asian studies and by the books she has authored.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Challenges
Chapter 1 - Drugs
Chapter 2 - Violence
Chapter 3 - Single Mothers
Chapter 4 - "Acting White"
Chapter 5 - Inadequate Schools
Part II: Overcoming the Challenges
Chapter 6 - DECA: The Family
Chapter 7 - The Miracle Workers
Chapter 8 - Academics
Chapter 9 - Raising the Bar
Chapter 10 - Bumps in the Road
Conclusion
References