Schooling the Next Generation: Creating Success in Urban Elementary Schools - Softcover

Zuberi, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442626844 ISBN 13: 9781442626843

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2015

Synopsis

Public schools are among the most important institutions in North American communities, especially in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. At their best, they enable students to overcome challenges like poverty by providing vital literacy and numeracy skills. At their worst, they condemn students to failure, both economically and in terms of preparing them to be active participants in a democratic society.

In Schooling the Next Generation, Dan Zuberi documents the challenges facing ten East Vancouver elementary schools in diverse lower-income communities, as well as the ways their principals, teachers, and parents are overcoming these challenges. Going beyond the façade of standardized test scores, Zuberi identifies the kinds of school and community programs that are making a difference and could be replicated in other schools. At the same time, he calls into question the assumptions behind a test score-driven search for “successful schools.” Focusing on early literacy and numeracy skills mastery, Schooling the Next Generation presents a slate of policy recommendations to help students in urban elementary schools achieve their full potential.

About this title

About the Author

Dan Zuberi is an associate professor and RBC Chair in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442626844
• ISBN 13: 9781442626843
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280