Fixing Truancy Now - Inviting Students Back to Class

Author Bruce S. Cooper looks at truancy as an indication that curricula and pedagogy are not serving students' needs, especially for ethnic minorities and English language learners. This book explores different types of truancy, major research in the field, and how teachers, school leaders, and students can work together to solve this problem.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Understanding and Defining Truancy
Chapter 2: "Surrounding The Wrong Building"
Chapter 3: Truancy By The Numbers
Chapter 4: The Ethnic Minority And English Language Learner Journey Of Education
Chapter 5: Truancy And Ethnicity
Chapter 6: Listening To The Truants
Chapter 7: Truancy Among Speakers Of English As A Second Language
Chapter 8: Shifting The Prevailing Winds Of Education
Chapter 9: A Good Teacher
Chapter 10: Fixing Truancy

About the author

By Jonathan Shute and Bruce S. Cooper

Summary

Author Bruce S. Cooper looks at truancy as an indication that curricula and pedagogy are not serving students’ needs, especially for ethnic minorities and English language learners. This book explores different types of truancy, major research in the field, and how teachers, school leaders, and students can work together to solve this problem.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce S. Cooper, Bruce S. Ph. D Cooper, Cooper Bruce S., Jonathan Shute, Jonathan Cooper Shute, Jonathan W. Shute, Shute Jonathan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2014
• EAN: 9781475810066
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-1006-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Educational strategies and policy, Truancy & anti-truancy strategies