Download or read book Academic Success Despite the Odds written by Leslie Morrison Gutman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Achieving Success Despite the Odds written by Reginald Leon Green and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving Success Despite the Odds is a historical, nonfictional autobiography of the life of Dr. Reginald Leon Green. As he shares his journey from rags to riches, he outlines the process and procedures that he used to overcome poverty, a variety of challenges, educational deficiencies, low self-esteem, and poor concept of self. Dr. Green is transparent about his struggles and describes that many times, he had to beat the odds. The book illustrates that there are multiple pathways to success and that if you dare to not stop, you will be victorious. Reading the accounts of his life experiences will inspire you to persist in your personal journey. You will also be motivated to confront all odds and ultimately succeed in achieving your personal and professional goals. Dr. Green's life story proves that failure is not a final destination if you keep going, honor God, and treat mistakes as lessons. This is his recipe for success. If you follow it, nothing can or will hold you down or back; you, too, will beat the odds.
Download or read book Not Your Usual Success Story written by Suzanne Claire McGinty and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PISA Against the Odds Disadvantaged Students Who Succeed in School written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the Odds takes a close look at the resilient students who excel in PISA surveys despite a disadvantaged background. It provides insights into what enables socio-economically disadvantaged students to fulfil their potential.
Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Freeman A. Hrabowski III and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, young Black men are more likely to be killed or sent to prison than to graduate from college. Yet, despite all the obstacles, some are achieving at the highest academic and professional levels. Beating the Odds tells their remarkable stories and shows us what African American families have done to raise academically successful sons, sons who are among the top two percent of African American males in terms of SAT scores and grades. The result of extensive and innovative research, Beating the Odds goes beyond mere analysis--and beyond the relentlessly negative media images--to show us precisely how young Black men can succeed despite the roadblocks of racism, the temptations of crime and drugs, and a popular culture that values being "cool" over being educated. By interviewing parents and children from a range of economic and educational backgrounds and from both single and two-parent homes, the authors identify those constants that contribute to academic achievement and offer step-by-step guidance on six essential strategies for effective parenting: child-focused love; strong limit-setting and discipline; continually high expectations; open, consistent, and strong communication; positive racial identity and positive male identity; and full use of community resources. The proof of the effectiveness of such strategies is in the sons themselves, who speak eloquently in these pages about their struggles and successes in both the classroom and the often hostile world that surrounds it. Essential reading for parents, teachers, and school administrators, Beating the Odds offers insight, guidance, and hope for anyone concerned about the plight of young African American men and the society they live in.
Download or read book Against the Odds written by Janine Bempechat and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1998-11-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, t.
Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Freeman A. Hrabowski III and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States. Many live in single-parent households-either as the single-parent mother or as the daughter. Many face severe economic hurdles. Yet despite these obstacles, some are performing at exceptional levels academically. Based on interviews with many of these successful young women and their families, Overcoming the Odds provides a wealth of information about how and why they have succeeded--what motivates them, how their backgrounds and family relationships have shaped them, even how it feels to be a high academic achiever. They also discuss the challenges of moving into African American womanhood, from maintaining self-esteem to making the right choices about their professional and personal lives. Most important, the book offers specific and inspiring examples of the practices, attitudes, and parenting strategies that have enabled these women to persevere and triumph. For parents, educators, policy makers, and indeed all those concerned about the education of young African American women, Overcoming the Odds is an invaluable guidebook on creating the conditions that lead to academic-and lifelong-success.
Download or read book Success Against All Odds Lessons Learned from Successful Impoverished Students written by Amanda L. King and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of poverty on students' education have been well documented and a positive correlation can be seen between these effects and their academic success. What is unclear, however, are the exceptions to this correlation. How do students from low-socio-economic status (SES) families succeed despite the seemingly insurmountable odds they face? The literature from a wide variety of longitudinal -- and interview-based studies from the past three decades suggests that character traits such as persistence, determination, and curiosity are key to their success. Schools with a majority student body from low-SES homes have found success in meeting and exceeding state standards through fostering an encouraging atmosphere and incorporating these necessary character traits throughout their curriculum. Mentorship in developing these traits is what makes all the difference in both the individual students' lives and in the school setting. Thus, in order to sustain the development of academically successful students, it is imperative that students not only believe that they can succeed, but that they are given avenues and resources through which they can succeed.
Download or read book Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind written by Arthur L. Costa and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2008 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded from the original 4-book Habits of Mind series, this compelling volume shows how developing strong habits of mind is an essential foundation for leading, teaching, learning, and living well in a complex world.
Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Cheryl Kroll and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beating the Odds profiles eight hidden barriers to college success affecting a significant number of students worldwide. Each barrier is defined in easy-to-read, nonclinical language and includes a detailed discussion of causes, symptoms, professional approaches to treatment, and a variety of highly effective self-help strategies. Author Cheryl Kroll also includes specific exercises for implementing her suggestions. As the first of its kind, written specifically for todays college students, Beating the Odds should prove to be an invaluable resource for any young adult struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities, high stress, or low self-esteem.
Download or read book Why Some Children Succeed Despite the Odds written by Warren Allen Rhodes and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-05-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the "resilient" or "invulnerable" child in various at-risk situations. These children are at risk of developing later psychological dysfunctions, but do not. Topics include: divorce, black children from single-parent families, stepchildren, loss of a sibling, teen pregnancy, and attention deficits.
Download or read book The Power of Anticipatory Images in Student Achievement written by James M. Davy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features ten high academically achieving, low-income, inner city students from Newark, New Jersey, who graduated from public high schools at or near the top of their class and continued to excel in college. Using a qualitative research design, the author interviewed the ten students and the person who most influenced their educational progress about what motivated them to achieve at such high levels. Three mutually reinforcing anticipatory images emerged as a common element of their stories. In their own voices, the students describe the anticipatory images they framed, how they developed them, and how they used them to their advantage. Davy advances a theoretical model of the Anticipatory Competent student who continually progresses in the directions of the images projected ahead.
Download or read book Success Against The Odds written by Paul Hamlyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success Against the Odds is an exciting book about effective schools in disadvantaged areas, written for a wide audience. The findings will be invaluable to headteachers, teachers, governors in all schools, and will also be of great interest to parents and indeed all those who are concerned about the future of our schools and our children. The best-selling report of the National Commission on Education, Learning to Succeed, published in 1993, achieved widespread attention, acclaim and influence. Success Against the Odds will do the same. This powerful new book picks up one of the key themes of its predecessor, namely how schools in disadvantaged areas can not only be particularly effective but can continue to improve. A dozen teams have undertaken to investigate a school which can be described as `succeeding against the odds'. Each team includes: * a leading educationalist, providing knowledge about effective teaching and learning and expertise in school improvement; * someone from the business world, offering a fresh insight into the successful management of the school as an organisation, and its interaction with the world of work; * someone working in the regeneration of deprived areas, providing a perspective that places education not in isolation, but as an interdependent part of the life of a local community The teams have visited a range of successful schools in disadvantaged areas to identify and analyse the key features of their effectiveness, or of their improvement. The schools between them cover a broad spectrum: primary, secondary and special; inner city, town and rural; local education authority maintained, voluntary and grant-maintained. What all the schools have in common is proven experience of overcoming difficult circumstances. In the case of each school, in-depth investigations of the life and work of the school have taken place, and the teams have attempted to explain the success of these schools. Some are detailed accounts of the life and work of the school, drawing on the views of pupils, parents and teachers to show what lies behind the consistent effectiveness of the school. Others are stories of schools that were 'turned round' from being failing schools to being schools on a long-term improvement path. In the concluding chapter, the National Commission on Education show that all schools have lessons to learn from these schools.
Download or read book Salute For Success written by Robert Guillaume and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a career of nearly forty years in education, Robert Guillaume chose to act upon a personal vision. With nothing more than his twenty-year vision, he set out to create a unique top academic and college-preparatory academy. Facing odds against success that included lack of financial support, he built a corporation and established one of the nation’s largest, finest, and most unique college preparatory public charter schools in less than seven years. This book is a salute to success despite the odds for failure. You will want to share this book with family and friends, and anyone who cares about our nation’s educational system.
Download or read book It Takes a Village written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller, It Takes a Village, now with a substantial new introduction by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Download or read book Becoming Successful in Education written by Pauline A. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of three relationships on academic achievement in mathematics in students of poverty. The three factors that were examined included: teacher-student relationships, parent-student relationships and peer-student relationships. The driving question for the research was as follows: Do external factors such as teacher-student relationships, parent-student relationships and peer-student relationships lead to academic success for students of poverty? The study employed a non-experimental, quantitative approach and utilized longitudinal data from a national database High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS) used a sample of 944 public and private high schools across the USA. A total 0f 28,240 were represented in the survey. Of these 28,240 students, 2641 were used in this study as identified by parental income below the poverty threshold. The outcome of the study indicated that there was little or no correlation between the three relationships and mathematics achievement (academic success). Correlations between the dependent variable (math achievement) and the independent variables even though some were statistically significant their weights had no concrete significance. The study recommends that several initiatives can be instated in schools to support and enhance academic achievement in students of poverty.
Download or read book At risk Students Defy the Odds written by Rosa Aronson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is your perception of at-risk students? A rural African-American man? A legally blind Georgia girl? A poor Pakistani immigrant? Rosa Aronson tells the stories of these and four other students, uncovering how very different at-risk achievers have overcome the odds stacked against them. Through seven narratives, Aronson analyzes their collective experiences. She offers recommendations for change in today's educational system based upon their journeys and the research of other overcomers such as Richard Rodriguez and Victor Frankl. A powerful book, At-Risk Students Defy the Odds brings to light the issues of poverty and race that affect education today and provides hope for change.
