TY - BOOK ID - 77917004 TI - Teachers as mentors : models for promoting achievement with disadvantaged and underrepresented students by creating community PY - 2011 SN - 1579226078 9781579226077 9781579223106 1579223109 9781579223113 1579223117 9781579226084 1579226086 1003447333 1000975517 PB - Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Teenagers with social disabilities KW - Mentoring in education KW - Mentors in education KW - Education KW - Socially handicapped teenagers KW - People with social disabilities KW - Teenagers with disabilities KW - Education (Secondary) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77917004 AB - The book describes two similar and successful models of youth mentoring used by two acclaimed urban high schools that have consistently achieved exceptional graduation rates. Providing a detailed description of their methods - based upon extensive observation, and interviews with teachers, students, administrators, and parents - this book makes a major contribution to the debate on how to reduce the achievement gap. Using similar teacher-as-youth mentor and youth advising models, these two inner city schools - Fenway High School in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Kedma School in Jerusalem - hav ER -