Making School Count: Promoting Urban Student Motivation and Success

by Karen Manheim Teel and Andrea Debruin-Parecki

Making School Count 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.
The book offers insights into the discrepancy between students' academic dreams (their high performance aspirations) and the realities of their classroom performance.
Issues include:
*the authors' convictions that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415230551
• ISBN13: 9780415230551
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"