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Title: New Directions for Student Support: Some Fundamentals

Description: Our intent in the following pages is to focus the discussion about new directions for student support by presenting a big picture overview of what's wrong with the way school address student problems, offering frameworks for rethinking current policy and practice and for moving in new directions, and detailing specific practices for making schools more effective. Along the way, we stress how schools, families, and communities must collaborate to get there from here. Our approach involves both analysis and commentary; we offer conceptualizations, examples, and opinions. Click here to download

Access at:   http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/newdirections/newdirections.pdf  1.78M; 260pp