At-Risk Book Bundle: Teach Me, I Dare You! (Volume 2)

Dr. Judith Allen Brough is Chair and Professor of Education at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. She has served as a constultant for agencies that are building programs to engage students in their learning. She has interviewed thousands of students and their teachers in various states and countries regarding student interests, motivations, and challenges. She has been recognized for her efforts as a student advocate through several organizations, including the Gruhn/Long/Melton Award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the William Alexander Award from the Pennsylvania Middle School Association.,
Dr. Sherrel Bergmann has been teaching, counseling, and researching at-risk students and their teachers for over thirty years. As a professor at National Louis University, she taught teachers who face these students in their classrooms everyday. Two of her earlier books, Discipline and Guidance: The Thin Line in the Middle School, published by National Association of Secondary School Principals; and Decision Making Skills for Middle School Students, published by the National Education Association, have relayed both research results and programmatic suggestions to teachers and administrators. She has consulted with hundreds of school districts, parent groups, and educational associations about students who dare us to teach them. Her work has been recognized with the Lounsbury Award from the National Middle School Association and the Gruhn/Long/Melton Award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals. She is currently writing, consulting, and teaching in northern Michigan.,
Dr. Larry C. Holt is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida in the Department of Educational Studies. His research interests include general methods, student learning, middle level education, and technology. He has authored two books: Cooperative Learning in Action, published by the National Middle School Association and Instructional Patterns: Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning, published by Sage. He was a Fulbright scholar to the country of Lithuania 1997 to 1998.