Download or read book Academic Achievers written by Pierre W. Orelus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is ironic that our ever-present preoccupation with closing the achievement gap is insufficiently articulated in current federal education policy. To this end, Pierre Orelus’ study cogently underscores the fruitfulness of caring teachers’ persistence in bridging the all-too-frequent gulf that exists between school and community together with an apprenticeship model that saturates youth in academic discourses. This is an encouraging and inspiring read. Angela Valenzuela, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin, author of Subtractive Schooling and Leaving Children Behind.
Download or read book Family Life and School Achievement written by Reginald M. Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, stating that the most important indicators of academic potential are embedded in family culture. To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observations on the quality of home life, noting how family habits and interactions affect school success and what characteristics of family life provide children with "school survival skills," a complex of behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that are the essential elements in academic success. Clark's conclusions lead to exciting implications for educational policy. If school achievement is not dependent on family structure or income, parents can learn to inculcate school survival skills in their children. Clark offers specific suggestions and strategies for use by teachers, parents, school administrators, and social service policy makers, but his work will also find an audience in urban anthropology, family studies, and Black studies.
Download or read book Health and Academic Achievement written by Blandina Bernal-Morales and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, physical and social well-being describe human health from birth. Good health goes hand in hand with the ability to handle stress for the future. However, biological factors such as diet, life experiences such as drug abuse, bullying, burnout and social factors such as family and community support at the school stage tend to mold health problems, affecting academic achievements. This book is a compilation of current scientific information about the challenges that students, families and teachers face regarding health and academic achievements. Contributions also relate to how physical activity, psychosocial support and other interventions can be made to understand resilience and vulnerability to school desertion. This book will be of interest to readers from broad professional fields, non-specialist readers, and those involved in education policy.
Download or read book A STUDY OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT STUDY INVOLVEMEN AND EMOTIONAL MATURITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TRIBAL STUDENTS OF NAGALAND written by Dr. T. Yolila Sangtam and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Overachievers written by Alexandra Robbins and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. During the year of her ten-year reunion, Robbins goes back to her high school, where she follows heart-tuggingly likeable students including "AP" Frank, who grapples with horrifying parental pressure to succeed; Audrey, whose panicked perfectionism overshadows her life; Sam, who worries his years of overachieving will be wasted if he doesn't attend a name-brand college; Taylor, whose ambition threatens her popular girl status; and The Stealth Overachiever, a mystery junior who flies under the radar. Robbins tackles teen issues such as intense stress, the student and teacher cheating epidemic, sports rage, parental guilt, the black market for study drugs, and a college admissions process so cutthroat that students are driven to suicide and depression because of a B. With a compelling mix of fast-paced narrative and fascinating investigative journalism, The Overachievers aims both to calm the admissions frenzy and to expose its escalating dangers.
Download or read book International Guide to Student Achievement written by John Hattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Guide to Student Achievement brings together and critically examines the major influences shaping student achievement today. There are many, often competing, claims about how to enhance student achievement, raising the questions of "What works?" and "What works best?" World-renowned bestselling authors, John Hattie and Eric M. Anderman have invited an international group of scholars to write brief, empirically-supported articles that examine predictors of academic achievement across a variety of topics and domains. Rather than telling people what to do in their schools and classrooms, this guide simply provides the first-ever compendium of research that summarizes what is known about the major influences shaping students’ academic achievement around the world. Readers can apply this knowledge base to their own school and classroom settings. The 150+ entries serve as intellectual building blocks to creatively mix into new or existing educational arrangements and aim for quick, easy reference. Chapter authors follow a common format that allows readers to more seamlessly compare and contrast information across entries, guiding readers to apply this knowledge to their own classrooms, their curriculums and teaching strategies, and their teacher training programs.
Download or read book The Roots of Low Achievement written by Sandra Stotsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how public education in this country became dysfunctional as a result of the education policies and programs funded by the federal government to address low academic achievement.
Download or read book Academic Achievers and Non achievers written by Durganand Sinha and published by Allahabad : United Publishers, [1970, i.e. 1969]. This book was released on 1969 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices written by Lourdes Ferrer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue -- Findings -- Recommendations -- Final Thoughts -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors.
Download or read book Developing A High Performing Student written by Joe Barnes and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Joe Barnes, had a unique opportunity to interview several parents and teachers of high performing students within the United States and around the world. He wrote this book to share his learnings from those conversations and offer his heart-felt advice on what it takes to be an A student. In this book, he shares his perspectives on what it takes for a student to be successful in the classroom. This book provides detailed discussion and step-by-step guidance on the following: - How students of all ages can succeed in school and make A's - How students and parents can work together to achieve academic success - How to use checklists to guide at-home studies and help students prepare to take a test - How students can use their testing experience to improve and do better on the next test - How parents can start their children on the road to academic success at an early age - Student wondering how to improve test scores and make better grades - Parent wanting to help your student study better and excel in school - College student seeking to raise your grade point average in order to land the best job possible, or - Family member or family friend looking to help others improve academically This Book Is Written For You.
Download or read book Achievers and Non Discrepant Achievers in Education written by Bindu and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study conducted among the standard IX students of schools of Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta and Kottayam districts of Kerala, India.
Download or read book Gifted Achievers and Underachievers written by Mahmood Ahmad Khan and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction, Review of Literature, Methodology and Procedure, Statistical Analysis, Discussion and Interpretation, Conclusions and Suggestions.
Download or read book Achievement In Social Studies written by D. Bhaskara Rao and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 1995 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: - Introduction, Related Literature, Research Design, Data Analysis and Findings, Summary, Conclusions and Discussion.
Download or read book International Guide to Student Achievement written by John Hattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the major influences shaping student cognitive achievement and considers their relative importance. It does not tell people what to do in their classrooms, but provides them with a compendium of research summarising what is known about the major influences shaping students' academic achievement.
Download or read book School Education Policy written by Kondru Subba Rao and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction, Review of Related Literature, Research Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation of Data, Summary and Conclusions.
Download or read book Self regulation of Learning and Performance written by Dale H. Schunk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned with students' attempts to manage their own learning and achievement efforts through activities that influence the instigation, direction and persistence of those efforts. In 1989, Zimmerman and Schunk edited the first book devoted to this topic. They assembled key theorists offering a range of perspectives on how students self-regulate their academic functioning. One purpose of that volume was to provide theoretical direction to ongoing as well as nascent efforts to explore academic self-regulatory processes. Since that date, there has been an exponential surge in research. This second volume on academic self-regulation offers the fruits of the first generation of research. It also addresses a number of key issues that have arisen since then such as how self-regulation differs from such related constructs as motivation and metacognition, and whether students can be taught self-regulatory skills. The contributors reveal an interesting, uplifting, and at times, disturbing picture of how students grapple with the day-to-day problems of achieving in circumstances with inherent limitations and obstacles. This volume provides insight into the source of students' capabilities to surmount adversities -- the origins of their self-initiated processes designed to improve learning, motivation, and achievement. The text is organized on the basis of a conceptual framework that analyzes academic self-regulation into four major dimensions. That model is presented in the first chapter, and key processes that influence each of these dimensions are discussed by prominent researchers in the chapters that follow. Because each chapter is written to follow a common format, this work provides a level of continuity and parsimony normally found only in authored textbooks.
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