Independent researchers interview urban middle school students to get their impressions of the teachers that help them to succeed in schools. According to the many student voices in this book, urban middle school students want teachers who “stay on them” to complete their work, maintain orderly classrooms, give them the extra help they need to succeed, explain their work clearly, draw on a variety of teaching strategies, and make their work relevant and meaningful. This book, rich in detail, brings these inner-city students’ perspectives to life and issues a compelling call for urban school reform that actually touches students’ daily lives.

Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want (Suny Series, Restructuring and School Change)

History

Corbett, Dick

Wilson, Bruce L.

Americas

State University of New York Press

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:
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<li> In-depth descriptions of classrooms and schools where students began succeeding when educators assumed the responsibility for their success</li>
<li> Data-based discussion of teachers’ views on parental involvement in schools and parents’ views of teachers’ and schools’ actions on behalf of students</li>
<li> Identification of the kinds of support that schools and districts must provide if educators are to be successful</li>
<li> An unrelenting emphasis on how educators enabled students to be motivated and to produce high-quality work</li>
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Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms: Expecting―and Getting―Success With All Students (Critical Issues in Educational Leadership Series)

Education & Teaching

Wilson, Bruce

Williams, Belinda

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

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: In-depth descriptions of classrooms and schools where students began succeeding when educators assumed the responsibility for their success Data-based discussion of teachers’ views on parental involvement in schools and parents’ views of teachers’ and schools’ actions on behalf of students Identification of the kinds of support that schools and districts must provide if educators are to be successful An unrelenting emphasis on how educators enabled students to be motivated and to produce high-quality work

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