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Dr. Berry has a strong message for educators and school system leaders who don’t understand that cultural differences can profoundly affect the quality of education these children experience… 

“You have children with failing test scores. You have teachers who want to teach but aren’t given the freedom or allowed to use the tools and strategies they need. You have teachers leaving the profession in droves. 

"And you have tax-paying parents who are very dissatisfied with their children’s education but don’t know how to effect change. 

"We have to do better." 

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EFFECTING CHANGE FOR CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE LEARNERS (2ND EDITION)

Many practitioners work with culturally and linguistically diverse learners (CLDLs). I hope to help them understand not only how but why we must seek culturally appropriate and academically equitable instruction for students from diverse cultures, diverse languages, and low-wealth families, so that they have greater opportunities, most notably for high academic success, but also for better life outcomes in general. Use this book if you are working on your own or as part of a professional learning community to guide the adoption, development, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of a culturally appropriate response to instruction at a school site or school district. In this book, I introduce you to a model, the Culturally Appropriate Response to Instruction (CARTI) Framework, to help accomplish your work.

One thing we know: sociopolitical debate will not prepare our children for success. Appropriate practice will.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN LARGE, URBAN DISTRICTS

The purpose of this study was to determine if any relationship existed between superintendents’ professional background and academic achievement in 60 large, urban school districts with minimums of 50% minority student population and 40% Title I eligible students. The sample districts, all members of the Council of the Great City Schools, were geographically located in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The 60 districts in the sample ranged in student population from 15,825 to 997,618. Minority representation in the districts ranged from 55% to 99%. Levels of socioeconomic disadvantage ranged from 41% to 100% Title I. The study primarily relied on archival achievement data. Results were inconclusive as to whether any correlation exists between academic achievement and the professional background of superintendents.

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