Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms: Expecting--And Getting--Success with All Students

by Bruce L. Wilson, Belinda Williams, H. Dickson Corbett, et al.

This timely volume reveals in great detail how educators closed the performance gap for low-income students by linking expectations and results. Drawing heavily on the words and experiences of students, teachers, and parents, this book describes how students who traditionally had not succeeded academically in school began to do so.

Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms demonstrates just how this was done by including:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807742163
• ISBN13: 9780807742167
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"