Young Children at School in the Inner City
Author: Barbara Tizard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780863770951
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Inner-city Kids
Author: Alice Mcintyre
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2000-11
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0814756360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, they also live with the everydayness of school, friends, sex, television, music, and other elements of teenage lives. Inner City Kids explores how a group of African American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, and Haitian adolescents make meaning of and respond to living in an inner-city community. The book focuses on areas of particular concern to the youth, such as violence, educational opportunities, and a decaying and demoralizing urban environment characterized by trash, pollution, and abandoned houses. McIntyre's work with these teens draws upon participatory action research, which seeks to codevelop programs with study participants rather than for them.
Schools Betrayed
Author: Kathryn M. Neckerman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0226569624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In Schools Betrayed, her innovative history of race and urban education, Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of how and why these schools came to serve black children so much worse than their white counterparts. Focusing on Chicago public schools between 1900 and 1960, Neckerman compares the circumstances of blacks and white immigrants, groups that had similarly little wealth and status yet came to gain vastly different benefits from their education. Their divergent educational outcomes, she contends, stemmed from Chicago officials’ decision to deal with rising African American migration by segregating schools and denying black students equal resources. And it deepened, she shows, because of techniques for managing academic failure that only reinforced inequality. Ultimately, these tactics eroded the legitimacy of the schools in Chicago’s black community, leaving educators unable to help their most disadvantaged students. Schools Betrayed will be required reading for anyone who cares about urban education.
Young Children at School in the Inner City
Author: Barbara Tizard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-04-28
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1351808982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children’s progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools. The research looks at children from nursery through to junior school and asks why some children had higher attainments and made more progress than others. Using observations not only in schools but also interviews with children and parents, the children’s skills on entering school were found to have an important effect on progress. In each school, black and white children, and girls and boys were studied, in order gauge whether gender or ethnicity were related to progress.
Hard Lessons
Author: J. M. Carr
Publisher: Yellow Rose Books by RCE
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781619291621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJune Cunningham was four years old when her parents were brutally murdered. Now as a brilliant young engineering student, she falls in love with the killer's next intended victim. Irene Hawkins is the estranged wife of a self-absorbed financial executive whose greed knows no bounds. June has learned to live without family and Irene has learned to deny her feelings. When they come together, everyone learns more than they ever expected.
Letters to a Young Teacher
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2008-08-05
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307393720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This remarkable book is a testament to teachers who not only respect and advocate for children on a daily basis but who are the necessary guardians of the spirit. Every citizen who cares about the future of our children ought to read this.”—Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other classic works for children “Kozol’s love for his students is as joyful and genuine as his critiques of the system are severe. He doesn’t pull punches.”—The Washington Post In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in his bestselling The Shame of the Nation and On Being a Teacher: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated as they were a century ago. But most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.
Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children
Author: Paul Connolly
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1134672314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a fascinating yet disturbing account of the significance of racism in the lives of five and six year old children, drawing upon data from an in-depth study of an inner-city, multi-ethnic primary school and its surrounding community. It represents one of the only detailed studies to give primacy to the voices of the young children themselves - giving them the space to articulate their own experiences and concerns. Together with detailed observation of the children in the school and local community, it provides an important account of how and why they draw upon discourses on race in the development of their gender identities. The book graphically highlights the understanding that these children have of issues of race, gender and sexuality and the active role they play in using and reworking this knowledge to make sense of their experiences.
The Crisis of the Young African American Male in the Inner Cities: Topic papers submitted to the commission
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Crisis of the Young African American Male in the Inner Cities: Topic papers submitted to the Commission
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSchool, Family, and Community Partnerships, Student Economy Edition
Author: Joyce Epstein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0429972768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book encourages more professors of education, sociology, psychology, and related fields to prepare the next generation of education professionals to understand and implement programs and practices of family and community involvement to increase student success in school.
