Challenges Facing Suburban Schools: Promising Responses to Changing Student Populations

provides a demographic, political, economic, and sociological overview of the changing nature of suburban schools

describes the nature of student diversity in the changing suburbs and issues with student achievement

identifies administrative responsibilities and program structures for working with a changing student population

proposes ways to reduce the achievement gap, most notably in literacy

looks at how to use “whole child” assessment protocols to provide support for such students

delves into parent inequities within changing suburban districts and offers ideas for closing the parent gap.

This book is written for school district administrators, teachers, legislators, policy makers, teacher educators, and educational researchers for developing programs and pathways for a segment of the student and parent population that now is living in suburban areas without traditional roots as advantaged suburbanites.