Betsy Gunzelmann

Hidden Dangers to Kids' Learning (eBook, ePUB)

A Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition to Hidden Dangers to Kid's Learning: Parent Guide to Cope with
Educational Roadblocks gives more insight into waysparents can understand and help their academically struggling child. Parents and their children can be empowered to recognize the perils and the pitfalls of our current educational crisis and take responsibility and control of their education before it is too late. We have new reasons to believe in our children and new possibilities to expect and help our children to be able to cope in our global community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610485470
• Artikelnr.: 39539226

Autorenporträt

Betsy Gunzelmann is Professor of Psychology at Southern New Hampshire University and author of several articles involved with improving our schools. She has worked in the field for over 30 years and is a psychologist, educator, and parent concerned with issues hindering our children's education.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Reader's Note
Introduction
Part I: Smart Kids Failed By Our Schools
Chapter One: More New Reasons to Believe in Your Child & New Possibilities
for Academic Success
Chapter Two: The Complexity of Education: Understanding Hidden Dangers Is
More Complicated than Ever!
Chapter Three: Cutting Edge New Research: What We Can and Must Do!
Chapter Four: Is This Your Child? Understanding Hidden Dangers That
Sabotage Your Child's Learning
Part II: Are Hidden Problems in Our Schools Negatively Affecting Your
Child's Learning?
Chapter Five: A Foundation to Understand the Needs of Children in Schools
Chapter Six: Misguided Assumptions, Attitudes, and Procedures that
Negatively Impact Smart Kids
Chapter Seven: Hidden Dangers in Testing that Impact Your Child
Chapter Eight: Hidden Dangers with Labeling that Can Harm Your child
Chapter Nine: Hidden Dangers: Racial, Socio-Economic and Gender Inequities
in Our Schools
Chapter Ten: Paradoxical Safety Problems that Effect Student Learning
Chapter Eleven: Buildings That Negatively Impact Your Child's Learning
Part III: What Can We Do as Parents for Short-Term and Long-Term
Improvement?
Chapter Twelve: System Overhaul: Developing Healthy Schools
Chapter Thirteen: Transcending Dangers: Improvements for All Children
Chapter Fourteen: Options/Alternatives for Parents of Kids Struggling in
Our Schools
Appendix Annotated Resources and Contact Information
References
About the Author