| Description |
xxxiv, 147 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"This book provides insight on how educators can increase the efficacy and achievement of urban youth. Angela Dye shares instructional methodologies and stories to help the reader develop an intimate understanding of the empowerment principles in action. Through these principles and methods, individuals can increase their capacity to combat the psychological, social, and political challenges associated with student achievement and real school reform"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Empowerment Framework and Definitions -- Key for Acronyms, Principles and Program Names -- Foreword -- Prologue: The Mission to Empower -- The Construct of Empowerment -- The Power of Project-Based Learning -- Service Learning and Empowerment -- Additional Programming -- The Power of Direct Instruction -- Assessments -- Accountability -- The Politics of Empowerment -- The Results of Empowerment -- A Charge to Urban Educators. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Education, Urban -- United States.
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Education, Urban. |
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United States. |
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Education, Urban -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Education, Urban -- Social aspects. |
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Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Social aspects. |
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Children with social disabilities -- Education. |
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Academic achievement -- United States.
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Academic achievement. |
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Educational change -- United States.
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Educational change. |
| ISBN |
9781610485821 paper |
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9781610485814 hardback |
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1610485815 hardback |
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1610485823 paper |
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9781610485838 electronic |
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1610485831 electronic |
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