Spotlight on Student Engagement, Motivation, and Achievement

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Caroline Chauncey, Nancy Walser
Harvard Education Press, 2009 - Education - 153 pages
Only when students feel engaged both socially and academically can schools and teachers lay the groundwork to motivate achievement. This volume, the fifth in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight series, brings together fifteen seminal articles that examine research and practice on these complex and interrelated issues.

Foreword by Sam M. Intrator, associate professor of education and of the Program in Urban Studies at Smith College and codirector of Smith's Urban Education Initiative.

Contributors include: Michael Bitz, James Paul Gee, Pedro A. Noguera, Laura Pappano, George Sugai, and Richard Weissbourd

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About the author (2009)

Caroline Chauncey is the editor of the Harvard Education Letter and assistant director of Harvard Education Publishing Group. Nancy Walser is editor of the Harvard Education Letter and coeditor of Spotlight on Leadership and School Change. She is a former member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts school board.