Kids Left Behind, The

Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Special Education, Learning Disabled

• Author: Robert D. Barr, William H. Parrett
• ISBN: 9781936765614
• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication: November 22, 2011
• Imprint: Solution Tree Press
• Language: English

Examine critical studies on high-performing, high-poverty schools to identify how schools can fulfill the mission of educating all students to proficiency, especially students at risk. The authors compiled the most important research on how low-performing, high-poverty schools achieved radical improvements in learning for their most vulnerable students and also identified eight best practices, breaking them down into specific strategies, often using real-life examples from successful schools.