Breaking the Cycle
How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
1st Edition
Published on 9. October 2013
166 pages
979-8-216-27993-8 (ISBN)
Description
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by the pernicious factors of their environment-drugs, violence, fatherless homes, and poor educational backgrounds-students at the Dayton Early College Academy are nevertheless beating the odds. All are headed for college, from which the vast majority will graduate.
The book reveals how this school is succeeding when so many fail. It conveys the hopeful message that others can replicate much of what "DECA" does and save a generation mired in despair.
America's failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture-and it is-this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.
For more information on the book, including interviews with the author please check out www.nancybdiggs.com.
The book reveals how this school is succeeding when so many fail. It conveys the hopeful message that others can replicate much of what "DECA" does and save a generation mired in despair.
America's failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture-and it is-this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.
For more information on the book, including interviews with the author please check out www.nancybdiggs.com.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
979-8-216-27993-8 (9798216279938)
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Book
10/2013
Rowman & Littlefield Education
€90.90
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Person
Nancy Brown Diggs' long interest in other cultures is reflected by her Ph.D. in East Asian Studies, as well as her fluency in French, Spanish, and German. With Breaking the Cycle, the author of Meet the Japanese, Steel Butterflies, Looking Beyond the Mask, Hidden in the Heartland, and, with Tanya Higgins, A Look at Life in Northern Ireland explores a culture closer to home, that of inner-city teens, describing how, with the help of good schools, they, too, can achieve the American dream.
Content
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Challenges
Chapter 1 - Drugs
Chapter 2 - Violence
Chapter 3 - Single Mothers
Chapter 4 - "Acting White"
Chapter 5 - Inadequate Schools
Part II: Overcoming the Challenges
Chapter 6 - DECA: The Family
Chapter 7 - The Miracle Workers
Chapter 8 - Academics
Chapter 9 - Raising the Bar
Chapter 10 - Bumps in the Road
Conclusion
References
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Challenges
Chapter 1 - Drugs
Chapter 2 - Violence
Chapter 3 - Single Mothers
Chapter 4 - "Acting White"
Chapter 5 - Inadequate Schools
Part II: Overcoming the Challenges
Chapter 6 - DECA: The Family
Chapter 7 - The Miracle Workers
Chapter 8 - Academics
Chapter 9 - Raising the Bar
Chapter 10 - Bumps in the Road
Conclusion
References
