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Making School Count : Promoting Urban Student Motivation and Success by Andrea Debruin-Parecki; Karen Manheim Teel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><b>Making School Count</b> reports on four years of classroom research in which alternative teaching strategies, designed to motivate under-achieving inner-city, African-American middle school students were used and evaluated.<br> The book offers insights into the discrepancy between students' academic dreams (their high performance aspirations) and the realities of their classroom performance.<br> Issues include:<br> *the authors' convictions that the disproportionate under-achievement of African-American students is the result of inappropriate teaching strategies<br> *the prevalent use of a Eurocentric curriculum<br> *results of the authors' research<br> *a guide for teachers wishing to carry out their own research<br> *a study of the collaboration between a university and a schools in an attempt to bring about change from the ground up.</p>

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Author

Andrea Debruin-Parecki; Karen Manheim Teel

Publisher

Routledge/Falmer

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610401345

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Management, Technology