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This study reports on four years of classroom research in which alternative teaching strategies, designed to motivate under-achieving inner-city, African-American middle school students, were used and evaluated. The book offers insights into the discrepancy between student's academic dreams (their high performance aspirations) and the realities of their classroom performance. The issues covered include: the authors' convictions that the disproportionate under-achievement of African- American students is the result of inappropriate teaching strategies; the prevalent use of a Eurocentric curriculum; results of the author's research; a guide for teachers wishing to carry out their own research and a study of the collaboration between a university and a school in an attempt to bring about change from the ground up.

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... is about improving the performance of all students.. <br>-Multidiversity: Myers Book Commentary <br>

... is about improving the performance of all students.. -Multidiversity: Myers Book Commentary

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Karen Manheim Teel is a classroom teacher researcher in the San Francisco East Bay area, teaching 7th and 8th grade history. She received her doctorate from U.C. Berkeley in 1993 and a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1994., Andrea DeBruin-Parecki is an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Northern Iowa. She has been actively involved with culturally diverse schools and communities through her research in family literacy, authentic assessment and motivation.

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