Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance

Poverty, Literacy and the Development of Information Capital

Susan B Neuman author Donna C Celano author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Teachers' College Press

Published:24th Aug '12

Should be back in stock very soon

Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance cover

This is a compelling, eye-opening portrait of two communities in Philadelphia with drastically different economic resources. Over the course of their 10-year investigation, the authors of this important new work came to understand that this disparity between affluence and poverty has created a knowledge gap—far more important than mere achievement scores—with serious implications for students’ economic prosperity and social mobility. At the heart of this knowledge gap is the limited ability of students from poor communities to develop information capital.

This moving book takes you into the communities in question to meet the students and their families, and by doing so provides powerful insights into the role that literacy can play in giving low-income students a fighting chance.

  • Commended for PROSE (Education) 2012

ISBN: 9780807753590

Dimensions: 231mm x 157mm x 15mm

Weight: 400g

176 pages