Breaking the Cycle - How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges

America's failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture-and it is-this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.

List of contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Challenges
Chapter 1 - Drugs
Chapter 2 - Violence
Chapter 3 - Single Mothers
Chapter 4 - "Acting White"
Chapter 5 - Inadequate Schools
Part II: Overcoming the Challenges
Chapter 6 - DECA: The Family
Chapter 7 - The Miracle Workers
Chapter 8 - Academics
Chapter 9 - Raising the Bar
Chapter 10 - Bumps in the Road
Conclusion
References

About the author

Nancy Brown Diggs' long interest in other cultures is reflected by her Ph.D. in East Asian Studies, as well as her fluency in French, Spanish, and German. With Breaking the Cycle, the author of Meet the Japanese, Steel Butterflies, Looking Beyond the Mask, Hidden in the Heartland, and, with Tanya Higgins, A Look at Life in Northern Ireland explores a culture closer to home, that of inner-city teens, describing how, with the help of good schools, they, too, can achieve the American dream.

Summary

America’s failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture—and it is—this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Brown Diggs, Nancy Brown Diggs, Diggs Nancy Brown
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2013
• EAN: 9781475806113
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-0611-3
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: New Frontiers in Education (Pa; New Frontiers in Education; New Frontiers in Education (Pa; New Frontiers in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education