Hidden Dangers to Kids' Learning

A Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks

By (author) Betsy Gunzelmann

Publication date:

28 December 2011

Length of book:

152 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

Dimensions:

241x163mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781610485456

This second edition to Hidden Dangers to Kid’s Learning: Parent Guide to Cope with
Educational Roadblocks gives more insight into waysparents can understand and help their academically struggling child. Parents and their children can be empowered to recognize the perils and the pitfalls of our current educational crisis and take responsibility and control of their education before it is too late. We have new reasons to believe in our children and new possibilities to expect and help our children to be able to cope in our global community.

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Reader’s Note
Introduction
Part I: Smart Kids Failed By Our Schools
Chapter One: More New Reasons to Believe in Your Child & New Possibilities for Academic Success
Chapter Two: The Complexity of Education: Understanding Hidden Dangers Is More Complicated than Ever!
Chapter Three: Cutting Edge New Research: What We Can and Must Do!
Chapter Four: Is This Your Child? Understanding Hidden Dangers That Sabotage Your Child’s Learning
Part II: Are Hidden Problems in Our Schools Negatively Affecting Your Child’s Learning?
Chapter Five: A Foundation to Understand the Needs of Children in Schools
Chapter Six: Misguided Assumptions, Attitudes, and Procedures that Negatively Impact Smart Kids
Chapter Seven: Hidden Dangers in Testing that Impact Your Child
Chapter Eight: Hidden Dangers with Labeling that Can Harm Your child
Chapter Nine: Hidden Dangers: Racial, Socio-Economic and Gender Inequities in Our Schools
Chapter Ten: Paradoxical Safety Problems that Effect Student Learning
Chapter Eleven: Buildings That Negatively Impact Your Child’s Learning
Part III: What Can We Do as Parents for Short-Term and Long-Term Improvement?
Chapter Twelve: System Overhaul: Developing Healthy Schools
Chapter Thirteen: Transcending Dangers: Improvements for All Children
Chapter Fourteen: Options/Alternatives for Parents of Kids Struggling in Our Schools

Appendix Annotated Resources and Contact Information
References
About the Author

Across America, many parents realize that their children are not receiving the education that they need, yet they do not know how to navigate change in the schools. This timely book provides parents with an overview of the major obstacles that plague our schools today. Gunzelmann graciously offers practical advice to parents such as to first listen carefully to the educational needs and concerns expressed by their children. She then provides different avenues that parents can use to successfully navigate their children’s specific academic, emotional and/or health needs in the K–12 schools.