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Description - Educating the Throw-Away Children: What We Can Do to Help Students at Risk: New Directions for School Leadership, Number 6 by Joyce Taylor Gibson

Throw-away children fail academically, behave poorly in class, or
refuse to follow directions; they are the special-needs kids, the
minority-language kids, the disruptive kids, the pregnant kids, the
emotionally disturbed kids, even the passive, forgotten kids.
Blending practical strategies, research, and personal stories, this
volume presents a number of successful programs for children
at-risk, including: a charter school designed to address the needs
of expelled middle school children; a Vancouver school dedicated to
teaching the native Indian children previously educated on
reservations; and a program for high-school dropouts with a
competency-based curriculum and a shared leadership approach. The
authors share the knowledge gained through their experiences: how
educators can collaborate with the other significant adults in a
child's life to lay the groundwork for academic improvement; how to
reengage teenagers who have given up on school; and how high
expectations and innovative instructional techniques can be
powerful tools for creating student success. This volume
demonstrates that educators can personalize the schooling process
and facilitate students' growth into intelligent, resourceful
problem solvers of the future. This is the 6th issue of New
Directions for School Leadership. >

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