Who Are Our Students? Now and Into the Future [Evollution.com]
This article is excerpted from Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students , published by Columbia University’s Teachers College Press. The refrain is so commonplace that if I had a nickel for every time I heard it, I would be a wealthy woman. Educators across the pipeline from early childhood through Grade 20 keep articulating some version of this statement to administrators: “Get me better students.” Graduate school professors lament what they perceive...