Preface: Research, policy and practice in the education of poor and minority adolescents / Mavis G. Sanders
Reframing students placed at risk: a historical look. Students at promise and resilient: a historical look at risk / William Franklin
Historical trends in federal education policies that target students placed at risk / Antoinette Mitchell
Why do so many urban public school students demonstrate so little academic achievement? / Robert Balfanz
Factors influencing resiliency and school failure. Student-teacher relations and academic achievement in high school / M.G. Sanders and Will J. Jordan
Talent loss among high-achieving poor students / W.J. Jordan and Stephen B. Plank
Unpacking the black box of tracking decisions: critical tales of families navigating the course placement process / Susan S. Yonezawa
Focus on African-American students. Gender and the effects of school, family, and church support on the academic achievement of African-American urban adolescents / M.G. Sanders and Jerald R. Herting
African-American teachers and the roles they play / A. Mitchell
African-American student success in independent schools: a model of family, school, and peer influences / Robert Cooper and Amanda Datnow
Creating a climate for diversity?: the institutional response of predominantly white independent schools to African-American students / A. Datnow and R. Cooper
From research to practice. Toward an understanding of school reconstitution as a strategy to educate students placed at risk / Heinrich Mintrop
Talent development middle schools: blueprints and results for a comprehensive whole-school reform model / Douglas J. MacIver ... [et al.]
Fostering resilience in high school classrooms: a study of the PASS Program (Promoting Achievement in School through Sport) / Crystal McClendon, Saundra Murray Nettles, and Allan Wigfield
Small learning communities meet school-to-work: whole school restructuring for urban comprehensive high schools / Nettie E. Legters
Building school-family-community partnerships in middle and high schools / M.G. Sanders and Joyce L. Epstein
Conclusion: Effective schooling for poor and minority adolescents: refining the focus / M.G. Sanders.
