(Name-mce) ListServ books on poverty

[Paul C. Gorski]

Books
*I particularly recommend the Sue Books book.

Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Education Reform to Close
the Black-White Achievement Gap by Richard Rothstein, 2004
Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School
Advantage by Ellen Brantlinger, 2003
Economic Apartheid in America by Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel, 2000
Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality (2nd ed.) by Jeannie
Oakes, 2005
Poverty and Schooling in the U.S. by Sue Books, 2004
The War Against the Poor by Herbert Gans, 1995

Research Reports

A shared responsibility: Staffing all high-poverty, low-performing schools
with effective teachers and administrators by the Learning First Alliance,
2005
http://www.learningfirst.org/publications/staffing/

Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education: A two-tiered education
system by NCTAF, 2004
http://www.nctaf.org/documents/nctaf/Brown_Full_Report_Final.pdf

The funding gap 2004: Many states still shortchange low-income and
minority students by the Education Trust, 2005
http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust/Product+Catalog/special+reports

Paul

> I have read the discussion on Ruby Payne's book. I am wondering if
> people could offer some alternate suggestions to her book. Something
> preferably current, but any good book on poverty would do.
>
>   Thanks!
>   Janet
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