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"Adolescents at School" brings together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and researchers to address the many issues that affect adolescents' emerging identities, especially in relation to students' experience of and engagement with school. The book offers current and preservice teachers a practical understanding of the concept of identity development, particularly as impacted by such factors as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability/disability, immigration, and social class. This third edition includes new chapters on boys' emotional lives, risk and resilience in girls, the experiences of undocumented immigrant students, Muslim-American youth, and income inequality; features on "teaching while white"; and an extensively updated chapter on LGBTQ+ students. The book expands on the strengths and insights of the previous editions while also touching on issues highly relevant to contemporary youth such as social media, youth activism, and immigration. A practical and insightful volume, "Adolescents at School" points to ways to foster the success of every student in our schools and classrooms. [For the second edition, see ED515272.]

"Safe Is Not Enough" illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities. Using examples from classrooms, schools, and districts across the country, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive of LGBTQ students; providing adults who can act as mentors and role models; and initiating effective family and community outreach programs. While progress on LGBTQ issues in schools remains slow, in many parts of the country schools have begun making strides toward becoming safer, more welcoming places for LGBTQ students. Schools typically achieve this by revising antibullying policies and establishing GSAs (gay-straight student alliances). But it takes more than a deficit-based approach for schools to become places where LGBTQ students can fulfill their potential. In "Safe Is Not Enough," Michael Sadowski highlights how educators can make their schools more supportive of LGBTQ students' positive development and academic success. [Foreword written by Kevin Jennings.]

By 2040, more than 30 percent of students in the United States will be immigrants or the children of immigrants. What factors can help these young people thrive in school, despite the many obstacles they face? And how can school staff best support immigrant students academic and personal success? In "Portraits of Promise," educators hear from the ultimate experts successful newcomer students. Drawing on the students' own stories, the book highlights the kinds of support and resources that help students engage positively with school culture, establish supportive peer networks, form strong bonds with teachers, manage competing expectations from home and school, and navigate the challenges of high-stakes testing and the college application process. An index is included. [Foreword by Carola Suárez-Orozco.]

As any teacher or parent knows, adolescence is a time when youth grapple with the question, "Who am I?" Issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability can complicate this question for young people, affecting their schoolwork and their relationships with teachers, family, and peers. This new edition of "Adolescents at School" builds and expands the strengths and insights of the much-acclaimed first edition. A uniquely practical, insightful, and jargon-free volume, "Adolescents at School" points to ways to foster the success of every student in schools and classrooms. Drawing from the perspectives of teachers, researchers, and administrators--and adolescents themselves--it examines the complex, changing identities young people manage while they confront the challenges of school. This book contains: (1) Identity and Possibility: Adolescent Development and the Potential of Schools (Michael Nakkula); (2) "Joaquin's Dilemma": Understanding the Link between Racial Identity and School-Related Behaviors (Pedro A. Noguera); Understanding "Acting White": What Educators Need to Know (Michael Sadowski); Listening to Minority Students: One District's Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap (Thomas Fowler-Finn); Opening the Dialogue about Race at School (Beverly Daniel Tatum); (3) Adolescents from Immigrant Families: Relationships and Adaptation in School (Carola Suarez-Orozco, Desiree Baolian Qin, and Ramona Fruja Amthor); "Desde Entonces, Soy Chicana": A Mexican Immigrant Student Resists Subtractive Schooling (Angela Valenzuela); (4) Model Minorities and Perpetual Foreigners: The Impact of Stereotyping on Asian American Students (Stacey J. Lee); (5) "Who am I as a Learner?" Would Boys and Girls Tend to Answer Differently? (Michelle Galley); "Getting the Message Across": Adolescent Girls and Note Writing (Theresa Squires Collins); (6) "I am Not Insane; I am Angry": Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence (Michael S. Kimmel); Male Adolescent Identity and the Roots of Aggression: A Conversation with James Garbarino (Darcia Harris Bowman); (7) Still in the Shadows? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools (Michael Sadowski); The Story of Matt, "Transgender Superhero" (Michael Sadowski); What's in a Label? Adolescents and "Queer" Identities (Arthur Lipkin); (8) Who Wins and Who Loses? Social Class and Student Identities (Ellen Brantlinger); Class and Identity in a Socioeconomically Diverse High School (A Discussion with Elaine Bessette, Joan Lowe, and Bill Quinn); (9) The Impact of Disability on Adolescent Identity (Michael L. Wehmeyer); Making Their Own Way: The Perspectives of Three Young People with Disabilities (Michael L. Wehmeyer); Multiple Intelligences in Adolescence (Howard Gardner); (10) A Question of "Faith": Adolescent Spirituality in Public Schools (Eric Toshalis); and (11) Beyond Categories: The Complex Identities of Adolescents (John Raible and Sonia Nieto). A foreword by Deborah Meier, an introduction titled "Real Adolescents" by Michael Sadowski, an afterword titled "From Understanding to Action: Ten Principles of Practice" by Michael Sadowski, and an index are included. [For the first edition, "Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education", see ED474879.]