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Based on the belief that even small accommodations make a difference in the success of students with disabilities, this text provides readers with the knowledge, tools, and practical strategies that will empower them to spark learning in every student including students with disabilities, culturally diverse students, students with limited English proficiency, economically disadvantaged students, and other students at risk. Revised to reflect recent changes in the law and current terminology, the strength of the book continues to be its numerous learning activities and sample lessons addressing both elementary and secondary classrooms, as well as its four chapter unit on curriculum adaptations with specific strategies and activities for teaching reading, writing, mathematics, and content areas. The strong emphasis on professional planning and collaboration make it an excellent resource for all teachers. Designed for anyone interested in inclusion/mainstreaming, teaching students with disabilities in the regular classroom, and teaching exceptional learners.

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Easy-to-read interpretations of theory are accompanied by practical applications. ... Read more

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This valuable resource offers fifty strategies for meeting the challenges faced by today's students and their schools, and is alive with the voices of students, teachers, and administrators. ... Read more

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Why are some students not able to learn a foreign language in regular classroom settings? How can instructors adapt or modify instruction to meet these students' needs? What alternative measures might be used to assess their particular linguistic weaknesses and to measure their learning progress? The book addresses these issues and introduces a multisensory structured metacognitive instructional method (MSML) to remediate language processing problems of at-risk learners in phonology/orthography, grammar, and vocabulary/morphology. The presented case study shows as a result that the student's metalinguistic processing skills improved in time with MSML instruction. Two newly designed tests to measure progress in auditory and metalinguistic processing skills are introduced. ... Read more

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Compensatory education for alienated students at risk of dropping out is a recognized part of the educational landscape. This is the first ethnographic study of such a program. It focuses on students and staff at two state-supported sites--one composed of white students, the other being predominantly African American. Participants are paid to attend, and are given academic remediation, counseling, and job assignments in the community. The author found that, unknown to the staff or the state, the program is unsuccessful in its main goal of reintegrating adolescents into their schools. He associates this failure with the program's perception of its students, the trivial curriculum, and the lack of student involvement in planning. Coming from the perspective of critical theory, the author challenges the mainstream view that this program compensates for deficiencies that individual students bring with them to the classroom. His findings support the idea that the program legitimates stratification by giving potentially disruptive students mixed messages. Operating from an "ideology of hope," the program tells students that they should challenge themselves to aspire to become middle class profesionals. At the same time, however, it ignores institutional barriers and fails to give its students the tools they need to succeed in school. This study has implications for all educators attempting to reach at-risk youth. ... Read more

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After School Education Bad
Good debate cards in this book. This Hamovitch says that School for the poor doesn't work in a Capitalist Society. ... Read more

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Motivational English for At-Risk Students is a practical, easily implemented 1-year course designed to improve the reading and writing skills of youth at risk. The course is based on a 20-week IBM computerized literacy program called PALS (Principle of the Alphabet Literacy System). The first chapter begins with a discussion of creating an innovative learning environment in this case, a professional office setting. Students are asked to conduct themselves as professionals in the workplace, which leads to increased personal and social responsibility. The second chapter is devoted to self-esteem, a crucial requisite for learning. This chapter includes specific motivational strategies, the involvement of peers, and grading policies. Chapter 3 addresses cooperative learning and includes numerous learning activities. The next several chapters are devoted to course content, such as the writing process, reading comprehension, a whole language approach to literature, vocabulary development, career exploration, goal setting, and job skills. The final two chapters address the importance of parental promotion of personal responsibility, and the teacher as a public relations specialist who can build powerful links between the school, business, community, and parents in order to develop partnerships. ... Read more

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This straightforward guide includes an overview and rationale for evaluating programmes for students at risk of academic failure. Detailed, intriguing vignettes illustrate how evaluation of programmes are planned, structured, staffed, conducted, interpreted and used. Standards and indicators of programme quality, guides for using these standards and an annotated bibliography are also included. ... Read more

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Review of Programs for At-Risk Students: A Guide to Evaluati
Sullivan and Tennant report the importance of evaluating programs in order to improve them. They also make the point that effective evaluation does not come from the involvement of outsiders. "Teachers and other school personnel, those who know their school programs best, can use evaluative tools to make their schools better" (p.3). The authors go on to discuss the many different purposes that evaluation results can be used for.
This evaluation guide is a must read. I would recommend it as a resource in any classroom or school library. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Reading Improvement, published by Project Innovation (Alabama) on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 8745 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Increasing at-risk students' literacy skills: fostering success for children and their preservice reading endorsement tutors.
Author: Dorothy Leal
Publication: Reading Improvement (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Project Innovation (Alabama)
Volume: 41Issue: 2Page: 75(22)

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more