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Author Bempechat, Janine, 1956-

Title Against the odds : how "at-risk" students exceed expectations / Janine Bempechat.

Publication Info. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  LC4092.M4 B46 1998    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 169 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index.
Contents Introduction: learning from poor and minority students who succeed -- Misguided notions about underachievement -- The critical role of parents -- Children's understanding success and failure -- Success in mathematics -- Overall success in school -- Lessons for parents and teachers -- "To seek mind where it is mindful."
Subject Children with social disabilities -- Education (Elementary) -- Massachusetts.
Children with social disabilities -- Education (Elementary)
Massachusetts.
Children of minorities -- Education (Elementary) -- Massachusetts.
Children of minorities -- Education (Elementary)
Children of minorities.
Academic achievement -- Massachusetts.
Academic achievement.
Catholic schools -- Massachusetts.
Catholic schools.
Public schools -- Massachusetts.
Public schools.
ISBN 0787943851 cloth alkaline paper