Reaching Higher

The Power of Expectations in Schooling

Rhona S. Weinstein

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$34.00 • £27.95 • €30.50

ISBN 9780674016194

Publication Date: 09/15/2004

Short

366 pages

5-3/4 x 8-7/8 inches

World

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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

Awards & Accolades

2003 Exemplary Research Award, Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research Association

2002 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Harvard University Press

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