Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART 1. PORTRAITS
  • 1. At-Risk Students: Insights from/about Research by Robert Donmoyer and Raylene Kos
  • 2. The Purpose of Portraits: Rethinking the Form and Function of Research on at-Risk Students by Robert Donmoyer
  • 3. ""Nobody knows my life but me!"" The Story of Ben, a Reading Disabled Adolescent by Raylene Kos
  • 4. Ways of Being at Risk: The Case of Billy Charles Barnett by Thomas Barone
  • 5. Ellen, a Deferring Learner by Karin L. Dahl
  • 6. Andy and Libby: At Risk or Undervalued? by Karen L. Ford.
  • 7. Karen: An Interaction of Gender Role and Reading Disability by Raylene Kos
  • 8. ""Something to keep the relationship holding"": Victoria, a Pregnant Adolescent by Kathryn Herr
  • 9. Andrew: The Story of a Gifted at-Risk Student by June Yennie-Donmoyer
  • 10. Alston and Everetta: Too Risky for School? by James T. Sears
  • 11. Paul: Differentiating Disorder and Intervention by John J. Gleason
  • PART II. POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND PRACTICES
  • 12. Structuring for Idiosyncracy: Rethinking Policies, Programs, and Practices for at-Risk Students by Robert Donmoyer.
  • 13. Placing Children at Risk: Schools Respond to Reading Problems by Richard L. Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen
  • 14. ""Teacher, why am I failing? I know the answers"": The Effects of Developmentally Inappropriate Assessment by Pamela O. Fleege and Rosalind Charlesworth
  • 15. ""A Different Kind of Responsibility"" Social and Academic Engagement of General-Track High School Students by Sandra B. Damico and Jeffrey Roth
  • 16. Direction with Discretion: Reading Recovery as an Example of Balancing Top-down and Bottom-up Decision Making by Patricia L. Scharer and Nancy C. Zajano.
  • 17. In the Shadow of the Excellence Reports: School Restructuring for at-Risk Students by Andrew Gitlin, Frank Margonis, and Heather Brunjes
  • 18. Emergent Spanish Literacy in a Whole Language Bilingual Classroom by Irene Alicia Serna and Sarah Hudelson
  • 19. ""It's Not a Perfect World"": Defining Success and Failure at Central Park East Secondary School by Mark A. Faust
  • 20. Creating a Culture of Writers with at-Risk Students by June Yennie-Donmoyer and Robert Donmoyer
  • 21. A Teacher Reflects on his Urban Classroom by Art Isennagle.