Challenges Facing Suburban Schools (eBook, PDF)

Promising Responses to Changing Student Populations
Redaktion: Wepner, Shelley B.; Gomez, Diane W.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This coedited book describes the impact that an increasingly diverse student population has on 21st century suburban schools. It also presents what can and should be done to help K-12 school district administrators and teachers address this growing phenomenon across the nation. This eight-chapter book: provides a demographic, political, economic, and sociological overview of the changing nature of suburban schools describes the nature of student diversity in the changing suburbs and issues with student achievement identifies administrative responsibilities and program structures for working with a changing student populationproposes ways to reduce the achievement gap, most notably in literacylooks at how to use "whole child" assessment protocols to provide support for such studentsdelves into parent inequities within changing suburban districts and offers ideas for closing the parent gap.This book is written for school district administrators, teachers, legislators, policy makers, teacher educators, and educational researchers for developing programs and pathways for a segment of the student and parent population that now is living in suburban areas without traditional roots as advantaged suburbanites.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216307204
• Artikelnr.: 74844810

Autorenporträt

Shelley B. Wepner is Dean and Professor of Education in the School of Education of Manhattanville College. She has over 145 publications focused primarily on connections between K-12 education and higher education and leadership skills for effectively supporting teacher education and literacy development. Diane W. Gómez is Associate Professor of Second Languages and Chairperson for the Department of Educational Leadership and Special Subjects in the School of Education at Manhattanville College.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Demography and
Educational Politics in the Changing Suburbs Stephen Kotok and Erica
Frankenberg Chapter 2 Race, Ethnicity, and Social Capital in the Changing
Suburbs Carl L. Bankston III and Stephen C. Caldas Chapter 3
Administrators' Accountabilities in Changing Suburban Schools Shelley B.
Wepner and Diane W. Gómez Chapter 4 Lessons for Leaders about Educating
English Learners Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey Chapter 5 A Conceptual
Framework for the Educational Success of Dual Language Learners: Reducing
the Achievement Gap Eugene E. García Chapter 6 Effective Literacy
Instruction for English Learners María Paula Ghiso Chapter 7 Data-Driven
Decisions on Effective Performance Measures of English Learners Debbie
Zacarian Chapter 8 Closing the Parent Gap in Changing School Districts
Patricia Edwards, Lisa Domke, and Kristen White About the Authors