| Description |
vi, 184 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : childhood failure and the classroom teacher / Barry M. Franklin -- Language of failure / Lynda Stone -- Low-achieving children and teacher heroism : a genealogical examination / Barry M. Franklin -- "Some teachers are ignorant" : teachers and teaching through urban school leavers' eyes / Richard J. Altenbaugh -- The professionally challenged teacher : teachers talk about school failure / Eleanor Blair Hilty -- From our voices : special education and the "alter-eagle" problem / Susan J. Peters, Alan Klein, & Catherine Shadwick -- Failure as discrimination : one professor's response to a college-wide examination of proficiency in writing / Susan R. Merrifield -- The micro-politics of school, teacher, and student failure : managing turbulence / Brian DeLany -- Some musings on what can be done / Henry M. Levin. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Academic achievement -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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School failure -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Teacher-student relationships -- United States.
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Effective teaching -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Franklin, Barry M.
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| ISBN |
0807737194 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807737186 paperback alkaline paper |
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