Schooling The Next Generation: Creating Success In Urban Elementary Schools

Public schools are among the most important institutions in North American communities, especially in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. At their best, they enable students to overcome challenges like poverty by providing vital literacy and numeracy skills. At their worst, they condemn students to failure, both economically and in terms of preparing them to be active participants in a democratic society. In Schooling the Next Generation, Dan Zuberi documents the challenges facing ten East Vancouver elementary schools in diverse lower-income communities, as well as the ways their principals, teachers, and parents are overcoming these challenges. Going beyond the fa?de of standardized test scores, Zuberi identifies the kinds of school and community programs that are making a difference and could be replicated in other schools. At the same time, he calls into question the assumptions behind a test score-driven search for "successful schools." Focusing on early literacy and numeracy skills mastery, Schooling the Next Generation presents a slate of policy recommendations to help students in urban elementary schools achieve their full potential. 9781442626843 1442626844 279 Education NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=THxkCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Dan Zuberi
• • Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• • Publication Date: Jun 25, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 280 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1442626844
• • ISBN-13: 9781442626843