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Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about Itreviewed by Sheri Atwater - February 12, 2007 Title: Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It Author(s): Regalena Melrose Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 1578864402 , Pages: 280, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com Counselors, psychologists, teachers, administrators, social workersin short, anyone who has ever worked with students with behavioral or emotional difficultiescan instinctively recall those students whose behavior remained confusing and overwhelming despite school personnels best efforts to intervene. For anyone who has ever left an individualized educational plan (IEP) meeting feeling that the childs needs were not truly understood, Regalena Melroses book Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It is a highly worthwhile read.
Melroses research-based premise about how and why we continue to misunderstand such children and the ways to serve them better is nothing short of revolutionary in a field where classification of the 13 federal disability categories dominates the special education landscape. With clear prose and practical case study examples, Melrose first lays out reasons why educators must re-conceptualize the problems many of these students faceparticularly students who often do not fit neatly into an Attention... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Sheri Atwater
California State University, Los Angeles E-mail Author SHERI ATWATER, Ph.D. is a professor in the school psychology program at California State University, Los Angeles. Professor Atwater teaches courses on psychological assessment, clinical counseling, and emotional disturbance, and supervises school psychology interns in Los Angeles area schools. She is the current president of the School Psychology Educators of California (SPEC), a non-profit organization composed of university school psychology trainers throughout California. Dr. Atwater presents nationally on culturally-relevant dialogue in the schools, and is the creator of the SUCCESS individual counseling program in the Pasadena Unified School District. Over the last 10 years, Dr. Atwater has worked in Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley Unified School Districts conducting psychological assessments and individual and group counseling. She has also authored and contributed to several research publications for SRI International, the Bay Area Consortium for Urban Education, and the Corporation for Research in Educational Networking.
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