Building a Culture of Hope: Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity

Name: Building a Culture of Hope: Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity
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ISBN: 9781936764624

ISBN-10: 1936764628

ISBN-13: 9781936764624

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert Barr, Emily L. Gibson

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Building on research that shows children living in poverty require not just academic instruction but an atmosphere of hope to succeed, this book offers a blueprint for turning our schools into Cultures of Hope. Authors Robert D. Barr and Emily L. Gibson use their work with high-poverty, high-performing schools across the United States to illustrate how the failure of our schools, evidenced in alarmingly high dropout rates and high levels of despair among teachers as well as students, can be reversed by an approach that pays close attention to social and emotional factors in education.Building a Culture of Hope is divided into three parts. Part One, "An Apartheid of Ignorance," defines the…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Triple Nickel Pr
Binding: Paperback
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English