Research Based Strategies: Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Under Resourced Students

by Ruby K. Payne

An all-in-one guide to academic, behavioral, and community solutions! Revised edition features effect sizes, 20+ new strategies, and more.

Varying levels of personal, social, and material resources can create specific challenges for students, as well as for schools and communities. Educators are key: Teachers are integral to the lives of under-resourced young people who can and will achieve success if we understand them and understand how to guide and teach them. This revised edition of Research-Based Strategies helps us do all that and more.

Easy to use

You choose the academic, behavioral, or community concern or challenge. The book takes you quickly through more than 75 research-based strategies, their explanations, and associated research citations.

Flexible

Zero in on one issue, or use the book as a general guide. Teachers may modify the techniques to best suit their circumstances. Most of these strategies are effective with any student, regardless of resources.

Fast

At-a-glance menu of challenges, strategies, and related research reduces your planning time and improves your effectiveness. Develop more immediate, reliable intervention strategies and address students challenges before they become overwhelming.

Effect sizes

Quantitative statements about the precise potential effect of each strategy.

Added effect of poverty

The added effect of poverty reflects current research about how poverty impacts effect-size measurements.

Includes more than 2o new strategies! Monitor progress. Respond quickly. Raise achievement.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

469 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 28, 2007

About the author

Ruby K. Payne is an American educator and author best known for her book A Framework for Understanding Poverty and her work on the culture of poverty and its relation to education. Payne received an undergraduate degree from Goshen College in 1972. She holds a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy studies from Loyola University in Illinois, and is the founder of aha! Process, Inc., a company that informs schools, companies and other organizations about poverty.

Reviews

[Genevieve · Rating 4 out of 5]

The real-life examples were really helpful in understanding parents/community/school relationships. I think I will reference this book often!

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you've read "A Framework for Understanding Poverty", this book has the ideas to actually help students.

[Terri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Payne knows her stuff. She's done thorough research into the effects of poverty, both situational and generational, that were set forth in her first work, A Framework for Understanding Poverty. She brings those insights into bear along with new studies to propose strategies to help educators close the achievement gap for students of poverty. Very highly recommended, but read Framework first!

[Laura]

As this was for a school-related book study, reading will be discontinued until August. I will say that I enjoyed the real life stories and examples. Those are always the most interesting and touching!

[Emily]

Part of book study among our staff. Good enough so far!

[Sarah]

Great book-read as textbook for Multicultural Diversity class!

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as a book study for school. The majority of the book was good, however some of the chapters were long.

[Julie Euber]

NPFY