Finally a comprehensive guide has arrived for frustrated parents who have trouble feeding their children. Dr. Macht, a respected educational psychologist, has originated strategies that have achieved remarkable results in getting children to eat right.Dr. Macht cuts to the root of the dilemma and emphasizes the relationship between a child's total family environment and his eating disorder. The individuality of each child is an important factor in assessing the most suitable approach for dealing with food refusal.This valuable book constitutes a major breakthrough for parents, physicians, and educators alike. It offers parents a hoped-for reprieve from the battle that often takes place at the kitchen table, But most of all, it will change the lives of countless children who will finally learn to appreciate and enjoy the benefits of healthy eating.

Poor Eaters: Helping Children Who Refuse to Eat

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Macht, Joel

Psychology & Counseling

Springer

Finally a comprehensive guide has arrived for frustrated parents who have trouble feeding their children. Dr. Macht, a respected educational psychologist, has originated strategies that have achieved remarkable results in getting children to eat right.Dr. Macht cuts to the root of the dilemma and emphasizes the relationship between a child's total family environment and his eating disorder. The individuality of each child is an important factor in assessing the most suitable approach for dealing with food refusal.This valuable book constitutes a major breakthrough for parents, physicians, and educators alike. It offers parents a hoped-for reprieve from the battle that often takes place at the kitchen table, But most of all, it will change the lives of countless children who will finally learn to appreciate and enjoy the benefits of healthy eating.

Poor Eaters: Helping Children Who Refuse To Eat

Da Capo Press

Special education's current system for determining which students are eligible for supportive classroom services is theoretically and mechanically flawed, as this book thoroughly demonstrates, while providing an alternative model.
Macht proposes a model for determining which students are eligible for supportive classroom services. His model resolves all eligibility issues by advocating direct assessment of all students' entering skills, rather than assessing intellectual potential as a means for determining a student's capabilities. It demands that general education assume responsibility for its diverse children and admonishes general education that it can no longer rely on special education to provide an available safety net.

Special Education's Failed System: A Question of Eligibility

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Bergin & Garvey

The slaying of the dragon within: A question of educational/psychological diseases of school children

JEM Pub. Co

Teaching our children

JEM Publishing

The Better Elementary School: Hand-Tailored Education for All Kids

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Review\nThis book questions many structural systems and practices in our traditional educational system and proposes ideas that may better support students and teachers in the classroom. This is an important book for those in a position to make changes, as well as for those practitioners in the classroom that are able to make adjustments in their own scope of influence. Dr. Macht addresses our educational challenges and self-imposed barriers from a 30,000 foot view, but he also considers changes that can happen in day-to-day instruction. This is a good read for pre teacher programs because it challenges traditional thinking around teaching and learning and may set up the teachers of tomorrow to question the status quo. 
-- Katherine Schweitzer, PhD, former principal, director of Teaching and Learning, Oregon Trail School District\nThis insightful and important book by Joel Macht challenges many of the basic assumptions of our current educational system and offers alternatives that would help teachers and students be more successful in the classroom. Dr. Macht reviews the typical structure and format of our schools, how student knowledge is assessed, how their struggles are measured and perceived, how students are taught, and how student learning is evaluated. While Dr. Macht takes a wide view of school-system policies, he does not forget the teacher in the classroom trying to address the diverse needs and challenges of the typical American classroom today, especially struggling students. Thus, this book is appropriate for both pre-teaching training and those who hope to become educational leaders, especially, I believe, curriculum leaders. For those looking for small changes or a tweak of the current system, this book is not for you. Dr. Macht explores and encourages significant changes for serious discussion and debate on what we are doing in the American classroom today. 
-- Susan Bishop Zirpoli, MA, Wilson Language Trainer\nMacht’s book is thought-provoking and energizing. It is written in a highly engaging style. Macht focuses doggedly on one of the most important and, ironically, most overlooked variables in educational reform – instruction. Improving instruction should be the foremost concern of anyone wishing to make education better than what it is today. Improving instruction also requires ensuring that teachers have the training, working conditions, and support they need to deliver instruction effectively. Macht’s proposed solutions are ambitious and deserve serious consideration, while recognizing the important political, logistical, and even legal hurdles they will almost certainly encounter, especially if educators and administrators heed Macht’s advice to ‘go rogue’ at the local level, good intentions notwithstanding.\nI commend Macht’s insistence on pushing instruction, formative assessment, and differentiation according to the instructional needs of individual students to the center of thinking about education and how to fix it. For those trying to solve education’s problems, reading this book would be time well spent. 
-- Andrew Wiley, PhD, Associate Professor, Special Education, Kent State University\nTailored Learning and Non-Graded formats, critical components for student success, provide all students with customized learning built upon students’ strengths, skills, needs, and interests while providing for irregular upward progression so that each student can advance as far as their abilities allow. Having reviewed the need for change in our educational system’s format, the book clearly explains the transformative approaches that cut across race, language, ethnicity, ability, gender, orientation, and family circumstances enabling schools and school officials to prioritize each learner and each learner’s successful academic achievement. This book is a well-timed guide for policymakers, educators, and families as we take crucial next steps to assure equitable and effective education for all school students in our

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The Medicalization of America's Schools: Challenging the Concept of Educational Disabilities

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