Essential Measures for Student Success

Implementing Cooperation, Collaboration, and Coordination Between Schools and Parents

By (author) Edwena Kirby

Publication date:

23 February 2012

Length of book:

104 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

Dimensions:

235x160mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781610487597

This book unveils “essential measures” that create a revitalized educational system of which educators and parents can use to promote student success. When these measures are applied properly, the benefits include, eradicating student fear, elevating student motivation, improving school attendance, and reducing student dropout rates. These measures aim to improve student pride and academic excellence while closing the student achievement gap.

Contents

Introduction1

Part One: Factors Impacting Student Achievement4

Chapter 1: The Historical Mission of Education5

Chapter 2: Children in Your School 10
Chapter 3: Understanding Child Development 14
Chapter 4: Systems Impacting the Lives of Children21
Chapter 5: Ecological Factors Influencing the Behavior of Children26

Chapter 6: Children’s Responses to Their School Experience54
Part Two: Strategies to Close the Achievement Gap 63
Chapter 7: Love66

Chapter 8: Power82
Chapter 9: Fun 94
Chapter 10 Freedom101

Chapter 11: Success for All107

Endnotes120
Appendices 125

I feel that Essential Measures for Student Success is a must "read" for every adult who is teaching, rearing, and/or raising a child in this day and age. Dr. Kirby certainly combines tips from academically successful students as well as at-risk atypical youth, advice from fellow educators and insights in her own personal career and breadth of experience in an easy-to-read on how to help close the achievement gap amongst our African American students. There is so much to do in our schools in order to catch us up to the 21st century to fulfill the ideal of providing a good education for all. We have to worry about some groups of children fall so far behind from where they should be in order to succeed in school and in life. Dr. Kirby speaks about achievement gap and ways to amend it.