Nurturing At-Risk Youth in Math & Science is a curriculum and teacher training accompaniment that details how to enhance mathematics and science proficiency among at-risk youth. The book explains curriculum and teaching strategies to raise student confidence and self-esteem and simultaneously raise their level of mathematics and science interest. It also includes nontraditional methods to accurately assess student performance.
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Randolf A. Tobias is chairperson of the Graduate Department of Educational and Community Programs at Queens College of the City University of New York. As a Mellon Fellow in 1983, Dr. Tobias examined supervisory roles aimed at improving curriculum and teaching within alternative neighborhood schools. He has consulted with school systems and universities on curriculum and teaching approaches for increasing the learning potential of the educationally at risk. As an associate professor within the School Administration and Supervision Program at Queens College, Dr. Tobias is currently involved in the training of prospective principals and assistant principals.
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The National Science Foundation asked the Rand Corporation to undertake a study of the way the nation's educational system distributes access toward learning mathematics and science among various groups of students (Oakes, 1990). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contextual learner, risk learner, arithmetical algorithms, mathematical performance, metacognitive knowledge, mathematical competence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Science Skills Center, Cold Spring Harbor, United States, Family Math, African American, Glen Cove, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Educational Leadership, National Science Foundation, California Test of Basic Skills, Community School District, Computer Assisted Learning Center, Henry Pollak, Metropolitan Achievement Test, Mount Vernon, National Research Council New!
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The National Science Foundation asked the Rand Corporation to undertake a study of the way the nation's educational system distributes access toward learning mathematics and science among various groups of students (Oakes, 1990). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contextual learner, risk learner, arithmetical algorithms, mathematical performance, metacognitive knowledge, mathematical competence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Science Skills Center, Cold Spring Harbor, United States, Family Math, African American, Glen Cove, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Educational Leadership, National Science Foundation, California Test of Basic Skills, Community School District, Computer Assisted Learning Center, Henry Pollak, Metropolitan Achievement Test, Mount Vernon, National Research Council New!
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- The Process of Education by Jerome Bruner on page 78, page 109, and page 119
- Empowering Minority Students by Jim Cummins on page 10
- Improving Schools in Back Matter
- Equality of Educational Opportunity (Perennial works in sociology) by James Samuel Coleman on page 7
- Science Activities on page 32
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