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Author Zuberi, Dan, author.

Title Schooling the next generation : creating success in urban elementary schools / Dan Zuberi
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction : urban education in a globalizing world -- 2. Diversity in the classroom : opportunities and challenges -- 3. Coping with challenging students -- 4. Engaging parents and the community -- 5. Addressing needs and supporting resiliency : programs that matter -- 6. Standardized testing : here to stay? -- 7. Conclusion : improving early literacy and numeracy skills acquisition in urban schools in low-income neighbourhoods -- Methodology appendix : sitting in the classroom : determining school success
Summary In Schooling the Next Generation, Dan Zuberi documents the challenges facing ten East Vancouver elementary schools in diverse lower-income communities, as well as the ways their principals, teachers, and parents are overcoming these challenges
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education, Urban -- British Columbia -- Vancouver
Urban schools -- British Columbia -- Vancouver
Academic achievement -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Case studies
Children of minorities -- Education (Elementary) -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Case studies
Poor children -- Education (Elementary) -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Case studies
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
EDUCATION -- General.
Poor children -- Education (Elementary)
Children of minorities -- Education (Elementary)
Academic achievement
Education, Urban
Urban schools
British Columbia -- Vancouver
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442620391
1442620390