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Category Archives: At Risk Students
People, Time, Faith, Cognitive Maps and the Reclamation of Lost Kids
An approach to retrieval of the legion of unmoored kids on the periphery of our schools can be extracted from an innovative treatment model for incarcerated “callous and unemotional” kids. Continue reading
The Two Headed Being in American Education
Ironically, charters have brought to scale and intensity ideas that arose out of research and inconsistent implementation in those nasty public schools. Continue reading
Publics Versus Charters and the Student Underclass
The ideological brawl between charter and public school advocates obscures the truth that there is a substantial group of big city low income kids of color whose needs are not met by either camp. Continue reading
Discipline and Students of Color: the Ecology of Student Experience
You are a student of color in a large American high school, perhaps also a recent immigrant. A friend of yours has run afoul a school code; let us say by talking disrespectfully, out of control, to a teacher. Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, School Reform, Schools and Culture, Schools and Politics
Tagged alternative schools, charter schools, disproportionate discipline, econlogy of schools, ecosystem of schools, iGrad, school funding, staff mix school funding, students of color, Suspension, unconscious bias, Washington State Legislature
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Assault on Obamacare Imperils Low Income Students
The Congressional assault on Obamacare undercuts school reform by eliminating health care insurance for many low income students; healthy kids learn better. Continue reading
Mindfulness and the Low Income Brain Drain
Mindfulness and meditation emerge as one tool in schools’ slow grapple with the psychological and neurobiological consequences of poverty in student lives. Continue reading
Yes, Betsy DeVos, Public Schools Do Make Gains
In this new climate where educators anticipate a Betsy DeVos assault on public schools, it is well to publicize success stories in the public school arena Continue reading
Will School Funding Reform Include Resources for Low Income Youth?
School Funding Reforms in Washington State and California properly should include additional funding for at risk low income youth. Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, Schools and Politics
Tagged ample provision for education of all students, at risk low income students, high poverty districts, McCleary ruling, school funding mechanisms, special needs students, staff mix, Washington State school funding, Washington State Supreme Court
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People Power and the Rebound of Low Income Kids
Hands on school experience has joined with neuroscience and social science to prescribe quality relationships in the school lives of struggling low income students. Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, School Reform
Tagged behavior problems suspension attendance, executive brain development, human relationships wayward kids, low income child frontal cortex, low income child frontal lobe, plasticity brain, quality relationships low income students, students belonging agency competence, support stressed parents
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History Lessons and Poor White Kids
This voyage into the world of the white underclass begins with a challenge to American myth. The colonies did not simply, as the school books tell, embrace the new European immigrants all on equal terms. Continue reading
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