Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap, Second Edition

Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap, Second Edition
ISBN-10
0807758795
ISBN-13
9780807758793
Category
Education
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2017-12
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Author
Paul C. Gorski

Description

This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers and school administrators need to recognize and combat via and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty. Featuring important revisions based on newly availble research and lessons from the author's professional development work, this Second Edition includes: a new chapter outlining the dangers of "grit" and deficit perspectives as responses to educational disparities; three updated chapters of research informed, on-the-ground strategies for teaching and leading with equity literacy; and an updated Poverty and Class Awareness Quiz. Written with an engaging conversational style that makes complex concepts accessible, this book will help readers learn how to recognize and respond to even the subtlest inequities in their classrooms, schools, and districts.

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