Start Where You Are, but Don't Stay There Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today's Classrooms

Name: Start Where You Are, but Don't Stay There Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today's Classrooms
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ISBN: 9781934742761

ISBN-10: 1934742767

ISBN-13: 9781934742761

Edition: 2010

Authors: H. Richard Milner, Gloria Ladson-Billings

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Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There addresses a crucial issue in teacher training and professional education: the need to prepare preservice and inservice teachers for the racially diverse student populations in their classrooms. The book centers on case studies that exemplify the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities facing teachers in diverse classrooms. These case studies of white and African American teachers working (and preparing to work) in urban and suburban settings are presented amid more general discussions about race and teaching in contemporary schools. Informing these discussions and the cases themselves is their persistent attention to opportunity gaps that need to be…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard Education Publishing Group (HEPG)
Publication date: 11/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748

Gloria Ladson-Billings was a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked for a decade as a teacher and administrator in the Philadelphia Public Schools. She is the author of The Dreamkeepers (Jossey-Bass, 1997).