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Hope Fulfilled for At-Risk and Violent Youth: K-12 Programs That Work, 2nd Edition
ISBN-10: 0-205-30886-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-205-30886-6
Published by Merrill
© 2001
Pub. Date: Sep 20, 2000
Format: Paper
Table of Contents
Preface.
1.The Crisis of At-Risk Children and Youth.
Why Be Concerned about At-Risk Youth?
Growing Diversity.
Shifting Demographics.
Demands of the Changing Marketplace.
An Apartheid of Ignorance.
2.Who Are the At-Risk and Why?
The Conditioning of At-Risk Youth.
Determining the Causes.
Risk Factors.
Risky Behaviors.
The Power of Prediction.
Additional Issues to Consider.
Why Have the Needs of At-Risk Youth Not Been Addressed?
3.Violent and Violence Prone Students: A National Crisis Escalates.
Violence: A Way of Life in the U.S.?
Causes of Youth Violence.
Profiles of Violent, Violence Prone and Non-Violent Youth.
Warning Signs: Child and Youth Behavior.
Identifying Young Bullies.
Legal/Ethical Issues: A Work of Caution.
4.How Schools Fail At-Risk Youth.
A Mythology of Ineffective Practices.
Inequity in School Funding.
Programs That Isolate and Stigmatize At-Risk Children and Youth.
Reconstitution of Low Performance Schools.
Frequent Mistakes in the Development of Programs for At-Risk Youth.
5.What We Know about Effective Programs.
Research on Teaching, Learning, and Effective Schools: What We Know.
Research on Schools Where At-Risk and Violent Youth Are Learning Effectively.
Compelling Conclusions.
Essential Components of Effective Programs.
6.Programs That Work: Early Childhood and Elementary Schools.
Family Planning and Health Services.
Developing the Brain in Infants and Young Children.
Parent Education.
The Critical Importance of Early Childhood Care and Preschool Education.
Kindergarten.
Elementary School Programs for At-Risk Youth.
Schoolwide Elementary Programs.
Schoolwide Efforts Showing Promise.
Elementary Alternative Schools.
Charter and Secondary Schools.
Effective Elementary School Practices for At-Risk Youth.
Effective Responses to Violent and Violence Prone Children.
Technology and Learning.
Creating an Effective Model for Elementary School Programs.
7.Programs That Work: Middle Schools/Junior High Schools.
Developmental Needs.
Schoolwide Reform Efforts.
Classroom Instruction Models.
Exemplary Middle Schools.
Promising Middle School Developments.
Middle Level Alternative, Magnet, and Charter Schools.
Characteristics of Effective Middle Schools.
School Climate.
Dramatic New Alternatives to Middle-Level Education.
Improving the Model.
Creating an Effective Model for Middle-School Programs.
8.Programs That Work: High School Programs.
High School Programs with Evidence of Improving Student Achievement.
The Comprehensive High School: A Need for Dramatic Transformation.
An Emerging Reform Agenda.
9.Restructuring Public Education for At-Risk Youth: Three Approaches That Work.
From School Improvement to Student Achievement.
Three Effective Approaches toward Restructuring Public Education.
Guaranteeing Success: The Blueprint Completed.
10.Creating the Will to Educate All Students.
A Decade of Change.
Imperatives for the Future of Public Education.
From Hope at Last to Hope Fulfilled.
11.Help Is Available.
Where to Find Help.
Research on Critical Issues.
Schoolwide Approaches and Interventions.
Classroom Strategies.
Works Cited.
Appendix.
Index.
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