NCJ Number
124848
Date Published
1988
Length
350 pages
Annotation
Contributing authors to this volume desire to help State school officers better understand the challenges involved in providing more effective educational programs for at-risk students.
Abstract
The Council of Chief State School Officers assumes that all students can learn; that what each student learns must include a challenging and common curriculum; and that how, where, and when learning occurs and who delivers the instruction should vary according to what works. In focusing on at-risk students, volume chapters examine values and standards in schools serving at-risk youth, along with schools in poor communities. Consideration is also given to race, income, and educational inequality; the deinstitutionalization of educational inequity; educational challenges in serving limited English-proficient students; and achievement. Other chapters discuss productive educational practices, public support for successful instructional programs, accelerating elementary education for disadvantaged students, and adolescent pregnancy prevention. References, tables.