At-risk students : portraits, policies, programs, and practices

Donmoyer, Robert. (Added Author). Kos, Raylene. (Added Author).

Summary: This book explores the circumstances of at-risk students and argues that well- intentioned policymakers and educators run the risk of making matters worse rather than better for these students. The volume demonstrates the diverse, idiosyncratic nature of these students, argues that traditional social science methods cannot capture this idiosyncrasy and diversity, and presents research methods, policies, and programs that can accommodate student diversity.

Record details

ISBN: 9780791413937
ISBN: 0791413934
ISBN: 0791413942
ISBN: 9780791413944
Physical Description: print
vii, 429 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-425) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1: Portraits -- Chapter 1: At-risk students: insights from/about research / Robert Donmoyer and Raylene Kos -- Chapter 2: The purpose of portraits: rethinking the form and function of research on at-risk students / Robert Donmoyer -- Chapter 3: "Nobody knows my life but me!" The story of Ben, a reading disabled adolescent / Raylene Kos -- Chapter 4: Ways of being at risk: the case of Billy Charles Barnett / Thomas Barone -- Chapter 5: Ellen, a deferring learner / Karin L. Dahl -- Chapter 6: Andy and Libby: at risk or undervalued? / Karen L. Ford -- Chapter 7: Karen: an interaction of gender role and reading disability / Raylene Kos -- Chapter 8: "Something to keep the relationship holding": Victoria, a pregnant adolescent / Kathryn Herr -- Chapter 9: Andrew: the story of a gifted at-risk student / June Yennie-Donmoyer -- Chapter 10: Alston and Everetta: too risky for school? / James T. Sears -- Chapter 11: Paul: differentiating disorder and intervention / John J. Gleason -- Part 2: Policies, programs, and practices -- Chapter 12: Structuring for idiosyncracy: rethinking policies, programs, and practices for at-risk students / Robert Donmoyer -- Chapter 13: Placing children at risk: schools respond to reading problems / Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen -- Chapter 14: "Teacher, why am I failing? I know the answers": the effects of developmentally inappropriate assessment / Pamela O. Fleege and Rosalind Charlesworth -- Chapter 15: "A different kind of responsibility": social and academic engagement of general-track high school students / Sandra B. Damico and Jeffrey Roth -- Chapter 16: Direction with discretion: reading recovery as an example of balancing top-down and bottom-up decision making / Patricia L. Scharer and Nancy C. Zajano -- Chapter 17: In the shadow of the excellence reports: school restructuring for at-risk students / Andrew Gitlin, Frank Margonis, and Heather Brunjes -- Chapter 18: Emergent Spanish literacy in a whole language bilingual classroom / Irene Alicia Serna and Sarah Hudelson -- Chapter 19: "It's not a perfect world": defining success and failure at Central Park East Secondary School / Mark A. Faust -- Chapter 20: Creating a culture of writers with at-risk students / June Yennie-Donmoyer and Robert Donmoyer -- Chapter 21: A teacher reflects on his urban classroom / Art Isennagle -- Chapter 22: The risk of writing outside the margins: a reexamination of the notion of access / Bonnie Meath-Lang -- Chapter 23: A policy perspective: overcoming gridlock beyond schools / Brad Mitchell.