Caring & Engaging Schools: Partnering With Family and Community to Unlock the Potential of High School Students in Poverty (en Inglés)
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This book reviews consequences of our failure to effectively address the needs of low-income students, given the poverty-related struggles that impede academic learning, personal growth, and ultimately positive life outcomes. The major stumbling blocks of schooling is portrayed from the perspective of disadvantaged high school youth, who suffer three major losses and deficits, as a result of their struggle: loss of hope for the future, disengagement from schooling, and impaired socioemotional well-being. Their struggles are also described in the context of impaired or neglected relationships among the major stakeholders of public high school education: school, family, and community. In Caring & Engaging Schools: Partnering with Family and Community to Unlock the Potential of High School Students in Poverty , Dr. Hill explains strategies and proposes programs to bring together school, family, and community to help students in poverty escape the snares of underperformance and underachievement. Her background as a disadvantaged student, together with the struggles of her high school students, provides credibility to her research that a strengths-based, whole-child approach to public education will help young people soar in their academic and nonacademic lives, and in turn will lead to educational equity for all children.
