Reaching Higher

The Power of Expectations in Schooling

Rhona S. Weinstein

  • Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Awarded Annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society
  • Exemplary Book on Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Sponsored by Division K of the American Educational Research Association

Introduction

I. Reframing the Debate: What Children Can Become

1. Colliding Expectations of Family and School

2. Turning Points in Research on Expectations: Toward an Ecological Paradigm

3. Revisiting Educational Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

II. Expectations in Classrooms: Through the Eyes of Students

4. Children Talk about Expectations for Achievement

5. Differences among Classroom Achievement Cultures

6. Children's Lives in Contrasting Classrooms

7. Achievement Histories of Vulnerability and Resilience

III. Expectations in Systems: Through the Eyes of Educators

8. Changing a Stratified School Culture

9. A School Culture for the Fullest Development

10. Achievement Cultures for University Faculty

Conclusion

References

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Reaching Higher
  • A photo of the author

Author photo: Philip A. Cowan

Rhona S. Weinstein is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.