High-Need Schools

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. The Emperor’s New Clothes are Accounting Straitjackets

   • Carl Mirra

   Pages 1-18

3. Innovation in School Reform

   • Fayth Vaughn-Shavuo

   Pages 19-36

4. In-School Reform in High-Need Schools

   • Kedmon Hungwe

   Pages 37-46

5. Issues of Leadership in Successful School Reform

   • Joan Y. Pedro

   Pages 47-59

6. Multicultural Issues

   • Pavan John Antony, Xyanthe Nicole Neider

   Pages 61-77

7. Special Education Issues

   • Karen B. Patterson, Janice Seabrooks-Blackmore, Gwendolyn Williams

   Pages 79-108

8. Teachers in High-Need School Reform

   • Devin Thornburg, Anne M. Mungai

   Pages 109-130

9. Back Matter

   Pages 131-133

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This book covers issues that pertain to high-need schools but the authors challenge the distinctions made in the research and reason that the issues are relevant to all schools. From the rise of accountability in the 1960s to now, high-need schools have been dealing with curriculum, program initiatives, and responding to diverse populations, typically without the resources necessary to implement change.
In this book we discuss important issues that have to be tackled if we as educators will succeed in meeting the needs of the next generation. From education laws, use of technology, leadership, diversity and multicultural issues, teaching in high-need schools, curriculum and teaching student with special needs, the book explores both problems and solutions, changing the dialogue from one of blame and stasis to one of action and hope.   

• School Reform
• Collaboration/Team work
• Teaching strategies
• Success for the next generation
• Restructuring schools

• Adelphi University, USA

  Devin Thornburg, Anne M. Mungai

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