Full Description
Here, Michael Allen, focuses on the personal and social issues (anti-social behavior, peer pressure, sex, special education, and lack of parent involvement) that students bring to school each day, which impacts their education. In this book, the author examines how administrators and teachers can wade through the psycho/social dysfunction in order to give their students the survival skills they need to become successful. The Two faces of Education: An Insider's View of School Reform teaches educators how to identify and protect themselves against the common pitfalls found in schools with diverse student bodies where underlying philosophical and social differences can unexpectedly aggravate tensions that can be transmitted from one student, to many. Based on real-life stories, this book takes a hard and poignant, yet often humorous, look at a different side of education, presenting a fresh perspective on the challenges of school reform by remembering who educators are there to serve—the students.
Contents
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 When a Fifth Grader Attacks
Chapter 3 Pound Cake
Chapter 4 April Fools, 1999
Chapter 5 Little Bag of Cheeba
Chapter 6 A Boy Named Tyree
Chapter 7 You Just Don't Know
Chapter 8 N.F.eL
Chapter 9 3/14/00 Incident: Bomb Threat to Annex in Hyde Park
Chapter 10 I've Got the Power: Shawn
Chapter 11 Not Such a Good Boy After All
Chapter 12 That's Just an S Across My Forehead
Chapter 13 Surrogate Dad
Chapter 14 Just Something to Do After School
Chapter 15 Cry for Help
Chapter 16 Summer School
Chapter 17 I Forgot Not to Give Up
Chapter 18 A Story from a Friend
Chapter 19 Assistant DA Beaned by Bottle
Chapter 20 That Takes the Cake
Chapter 21 The Trick's on You
Chapter 22 Wee One
Part 23 Afterword
Part 24 A Note from a Student
