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Teaching for Equity in Complex Times: Negotiating Standards in a High-Performing Bilingual School

Teaching for Equity in Complex Times: Negotiating Standards in a High-Performing Bilingual School

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Series: Multicultural Education

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ISBN10: 0807757853
ISBN13: 9780807757857
Publisher: Teachers College Pr
Published: Apr 28 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In schools serving high concentrations of bilingual learners, it can be especially challenging for teachers to maintain commitments to equity-minded instruction while meeting the demands of new educational policies, including national standards. This book details how one school integrated equity pedagogy into a standards-based curriculum and produced exemplary levels of achievement. As the authors illustrate, however, the school's dual commitment to bilingual education and standards-based reform engendered numerous complex tensions. Specifically, the authors describe teachers' attempts to balance demands for rigor and content coverage within their high-performing school and with their diverse student population. They identify specific tensions that emerged around the following issues:

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