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Challenges Facing Suburban Schools: Promising Responses to Changing Student Populations

Challenges Facing Suburban Schools: Promising Responses to Changing Student Populations

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  • 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.
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