Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools

Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries. However, effective math and science education is not equally available to all students, with some of the poorest students—those who would benefit most—going egregiously underserved. This ongoing problem with education highlights one of the core causes of the widening class gap. While this educational inequality can be attributed to a number of economic and political causes, in Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Communities, Angela Calabrese Barton and Edna Tan demonstrate that it is augmented by a consistent failure to integrate student history, culture, and social needs into the core curriculum. They argue that teachers and schools should create hybrid third spaces—neither classroom nor home—in which underserved students can merge their personal worlds with those of math and science. A host of examples buttress this argument: schools where these spaces have been instituted now provide students not only an immediate motivation to engage the subjects most critical to their future livelihoods but also the broader math and science literacy necessary for robust societal engagement. A unique look at a frustratingly understudied subject, Empowering Science and Mathematics Education pushes beyond the idea of teaching for social justice and into larger questions of how and why students participate in math and science.

Science & Math

Turner, Erin

Tan, Edna

Barton, Angela Calabrese

Gutiérrez, Maura Varley

Mathematics

University of Chicago Press

Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries. However, effective math and science education is not equally available to all students, with some of the poorest students—those who would benefit most—going egregiously underserved. This ongoing problem with education highlights one of the core causes of the widening class gap. While this educational inequality can be attributed to a number of economic and political causes, in Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Communities, Angela Calabrese Barton and Edna Tan demonstrate that it is augmented by a consistent failure to integrate student history, culture, and social needs into the core curriculum. They argue that teachers and schools should create hybrid third spaces—neither classroom nor home—in which underserved students can merge their personal worlds with those of math and science. A host of examples buttress this argument: schools where these spaces have been instituted now provide students not only an immediate motivation to engage the subjects most critical to their future livelihoods but also the broader math and science literacy necessary for robust societal engagement. A unique look at a frustratingly understudied subject, Empowering Science and Mathematics Education pushes beyond the idea of teaching for social justice and into larger questions of how and why students participate in math and science.

Business & Money

Economics

True stories of outlaws on the edge. The worst (and best) of the robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West.

Badasses of the Old West: True Stories Of Outlaws On The Edge

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

TwoDot

From Jo Monaghan, the Southern-belle-debutant turned Idaho cattlewoman, to Fanny Sperry Steele, the Bucking Horse Champion of the World, the Wild West was populated with untamed women who worked and played as men did in the saddles of their favorite bucking broncos. This book brings together their stories, including their own thoughts about being cowgirls, and archival art that celebrates the Western experience.

Cowgirls

G06-TwoDot

Kids of all ages will have fun with the West Virginia themed alphabet to color, mazes to solve, and word searches to conquer! Have contests with your friends or see if you can design a new quilt pattern. Parents can join in the fun too! Learn all kinds of fun facts about the Mountain State. Quiz each other to see how much you know before and after you work through the book. Get out the pencils and the crayons! There's a lot to do! Packed with fun activities such as: 1. Map of West Virginia. Color the counties that you have visited! 2. Color the West Virginia themed alphabet and learn our history in the process 3. Famous West Virginians to color and read about. 4. Connect the dots 5. Find-a-word searches that are each themed to important West Virginia subjects such as glass making, bridge day, government, animals, etc. 6. Mazes to solve, all with West Virginia subjects 7. Quilt patterns to color and design 8. Fun quizzes in the back to see what you remember

Kids' West Virginia Activity Book

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Mountain Memories Books

Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis: An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention

Despite years of research, debate and changes in mental health policy, there is still a lack of consensus as to what recovery from psychosis actually means, how it should be measured and how it may ultimately be achieved. In Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis: An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention it is argued that recovery from a first episode of psychosis (FEP) is comprised of 3 core elements: symptomatic, social and personal. Moreover, all 3 types of recovery need to be the target of early intervention for psychosis programmes (EIP) which provide evidence based, integrated, bio-psychosocial interventions delivered in the context of a value base offering hope, empowerment and a youth focused approach.Over the 12 chapters in the book, the authors, experienced clinicians and researchers from multi-professional background, demonstrate that long term recovery needs to replace short term remission as the key target of early psychosis services and that to achieve this we need a change in the way we deliver EIP: One that takes account of the different stages of psychosis and the ‘bespoke’ targeting of integrated medical, psychological and social treatments during the ‘critical period’. Illustrated with a wealth of clinical examples, Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis, will be of great interest to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and other associated mental health professionals.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jackson, Chris

Bernard, Mark

Baggott, Eleanor

Clutterbuck, Ruth

Ryles, Diane

Mental Health

Routledge

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