Teaching Every Adolescent Every Day
Learning In Diverse High School Classrooms
by Don Deshler, Jean Schumaker, Karen Harris & Steve Graham, Editors
June 1998
ISBN 1-57129-060-5 • $19.95 SC
By the 10th grade, at-risk students often perform at 4th to 5th
grade levels in the basic skills and are weak in many higher-order
thinking skills. As the skill levels of these students plateau and the
demands increase, the performance gap continues to widen. Yet the
secondary school has received little attention in the current focus on
ensuring appropriate educational opportunities for students with poor
skills and knowledge bases.
The authors and editors of this volume define their goal as working
to close the gap between where these students are socially and
academically and where they need to be in order to be successful in
school and life. The book addresses how to work with students in
building basic and higher-order thinking skills, and applying these
skills to content-area learning. Chapters also address building
students' social competence with peers and adults and how to ease the
transition into high school. A focused, readable text, practically
oriented to the teacher, that is based on years of research at the
University of Kansas.
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