Classroom management : a guide for urban school teachers

kkerns — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:26:19 +0000

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Book

Authors:

Yisrael,Sean B.

Source:

Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Md., p.106 (2012)

Publication Language:

eng

Create success! : unlocking the potential of urban students

kkerns — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:40:04 +0000

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Authors:

Rajagopal,Kadhir

Source:

Ascd, Alexandria, Va., p.152 (2011)

Call Number:

Cubb LB1025.3 .R355 2011

URL:

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9105603

Keywords:

Effective teaching--United States, Students with social disabilities--Education--United States, Urban youth--Education--United States

Publication Language:

eng

Reading girls : the lives and literacies of adolescents

kkerns — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:06:32 +0000

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Authors:

Ma'ayan,Hadar Dubowsky

Source:

Language and literacy series New York, N.Y., Teachers College Press, New York (2012)

Call Number:

Cubb LB1135 .M27 2012

URL:

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9645176

Keywords:

Adolescence, Educational sociology, Junior high school girls--Attitudes, Literacy--Social aspects

Publication Language:

eng

Notes:

"Reading Girls captures the voices and literacy experiences of a diverse group of urban adolescent girls. The author--an experienced researcher and middle school teacher--intertwines investigations of multiple literacies, technologies, race, class, gender, sexuality, and gender expression to provide a provocative look at what helps and what hurts adolescent girls in school."

Teaching Black girls : resiliency in urban classrooms

kkerns — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:48:33 +0000

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Authors:

Evans-Winters,Venus E.

Source:

Counterpoints New York, N.Y., Peter Lang, Volume Rev, New York, p.186 (2011)

Call Number:

Cubb LC2731 .E92 2011

URL:

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9089547

Keywords:

African American girls--Education, Resilience (Personality trait)--United States, Urban youth--United States--Social conditions

Abstract:

Contents: Where I'm comin' from -- (En)gendering resiliency in urban education -- The construction of social inequality in a Midwestern city -- Introducing the co-narrators -- Resiliency in urban classrooms -- Critical urban pedagogy -- New directions in research and writing the lives of Black girls.

Publication Language:

eng

We don't need another hero : struggle, hope, and possibility in the age of high-stakes schooling

kkerns — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:46:10 +0000

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Authors:

Michie,Gregory, author

Source:

Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (2012)

Call Number:

Cubb LC4091 .M46 2012

URL:

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9920386

Keywords:

Children of minorities--Education--United States, Children with social disabilities--Education--United States, Education, Public schools--United States, Teachers of children with social disabilities--United States, Urban--United States

Abstract:

Contents: Teaching in the undertow: resisting the pull of schooling-as-usual -- All together now -- We don't need another hero -- From the trading floor to the classroom: Charlie's story -- Seeing, hearing, and talking race: lessons for white teachers from teachers of color -- Fire and water: reflections on teaching in the city -- Juan at 16 -- Some kind of justice -- Ground zero -- A real alternative: tragedy and hope on Chicago's south side -- At the edges of a dream -- Elephants in the room -- Another path is possible -- The trouble with "innovation" in schools -- Race to the top of what?: in search of the democratic ideal in education.