Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap (Multicultural Education Series)

Author: Gorski Paul C.

Brand: Teachers College Press

Edition: 2

Number Of Pages: 256

Details: Product Description

This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers and school administrators need to recognize and combat bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty.
The Second Edition features two new chapters―“Embracing a Structural View of Poverty and Education: Ditching Deficit Ideology and Quitting Grit” and “Cultivating School Change through Equity Literacy: Commitments and Strategies for School and District Leaders”―plus extensive revisions throughout based on newly available research and lessons from the author’s professional development work. Gorski outlines the dangers of “grit” and deficit perspectives as responses to educational disparities; offers research-informed, on-the-ground strategies for teaching and leading with equity literacy; and provides expanded lists of resources and readings to support transformative equity work in high-poverty and mixed-class schools.
Written in an engaging, conversational style that makes complex concepts accessible, this book will help readers learn how to recognize and respond to even the subtlest inequities in their classrooms, schools, and districts.
Book Features: Offers a research-informed alternative to popular simplistic approaches that undermine genuine efforts at educational equity. Outlines evidence-based strategies, policies, and practices that strengthen the educational success of students experiencing poverty. Incorporates vignettes to help readers reflect on key points and apply the Equity Literacy framework to classroom- and school-based scenarios. Embraces an intersectional approach to recognizing how class and poverty interact with race, gender, language, (dis)ability, and other dimensions of identity and experience. Includes an updated Poverty and Class Awareness Quiz.

Review

“A must-read for educators in schools of all kinds. This accessible, highly relevant book empowers teachers with tools they can use today. Read it, talk about it with your friends and colleagues, and use it as a guide for your next project in educational activism! Our students’ school experiences will surely be better for it.”
―Rethinking Schools

“Provides a good overview of the topic, delivers clear, well-researched information, and helps all educators expand their knowledge of poverty and social class.”
―Choice

“Recommended for any educator or those who support them ― superintendent, principal, teacher, teacher candidate, board member ― Gorski’s logic is unparalleled”
―School Administrator

“(C)ommunication center professionals will find this excellent book a useful resource for beginning conversations about class inequities in their centers and for educating themselves about barriers faced by students in poverty before they reach our institutions.”
―Communication Center Journal

Review

“If you think the educational landscape has improved for students who are experiencing poverty, perhaps you should think again. Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty helps readers look at current conditions in schools as well as their teaching practices in new ways. Paul Gorski provides practical strategies that teachers, administrators, and other staff have used to immediately improve schools, particularly for the most marginalized students. ”
―Cheryl Robinson, cultural competency coordinator, Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia

“In praise of Gorski’s original edition, I wrote, ‘This is the poverty book I’ve been waiting for.’ That is even more true for this Second Edition, where he has moved the entire discussion of poverty and education to a deeper structural level and zeroed in even more clearly on the transformative actions we must take. What I particularly love about this new edition is the way Gorski decisively debunks our most dearly held stereotypes about students and families experiencing poverty, and lays to waste our most cherished notions of how to ‘fix’ them. His analysis is both refreshingly irreverent and imme

Release Date: 29-12-2017

Package Dimensions: 15x226x281