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Download full textPopp, Patricia A. – National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE, 2007
This handbook is the second volume in a publication supported by the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) to explore reading instruction for students experiencing high mobility as a result of high poverty. The initial document, "Reading on the Go! Students Who Are Highly Mobile and Reading Instruction," reviewed the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Reading Instruction, Supplementary Education, Poverty
Direct linkAyalon, Aram – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2007
The purpose of this article is fourfold. First, it identifies a growing international interest on the part of educators and school officials in finding effective ways to mentor especially poor and minority students toward academic success. Second, it reviews the literature on mentoring as it pertains to this population. Third, it details a case…
Descriptors: Mentors, Economically Disadvantaged, Minority Group Children, Teacher Role
Maguire, Meg; Wooldridge, Tim; Pratt-Adams, Simon – Open University Press, 2006
This book offers an in-depth understanding of the unique challenges and contributions of urban primary schools. The authors set urban education in the wider social context of structural disadvantage, poverty, oppression and exclusion, and reassert some critical urban educational concerns. Recognizing that practice needs to be informed by theory,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Youth, Social Environment, Social Class
Peer reviewedCarta, Judith J. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1991
Reviews research findings concerning elementary education in the inner city. Explains low-income children are vulnerable to school failure before entering school. Examines classroom variables and instructional factors, claiming conventional schooling places low demands on students. States research provides a model for making data based decisions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Classroom Research, Disadvantaged Youth
Jewett, Arno, Ed.; Mersand, Joseph, Ed.; Gunderson, Doris V., Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
The purpose of this bulletin is to help teachers, supervisors, administrators, and other educators improve the English skills of culturally different youth. In an effort to gather available research and successful classroom practices, the Secondary Schools Section of the U.S. Office of Education invited a group of leaders to participate in a 3-day…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Language Aptitude, Reading Skills, Reading Programs
