Teaching Low Achieving and Disadvantaged Students

The First Edition of Teaching Low Achieving and Disadvantaged Students was well received, and so the author, in this new edition, has not altered the ideas expressed there. What he has added are details and reactions in light of events and experiences of the intervening years. These experiences come from the author's role in working with children who are casualties of the educational system as well as in his work in helping to develop a successful alternative public high school. In this new edition, he clearly explains the reasons behind learning and behavior problems of low achieving and disadvantaged students. He outlines assessment procedures to separate real disabilities from school-created ones and then describes the educational treatment of each. This comprehensive volume offers classroom teachers and administrators new insight into the challenging task of teaching low achieving and disadvantaged children.