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Title: Creating Successful School Systems Requires Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching

Description: Like many of you, each week we are flooded with reports analyzing public education and recommending ways to improve schools. Most contain good ideas. But, usually the recommendations pay too little attention to the many well-known external and internal barriers to learning and teaching that contribute to active disengagement from classroom learning and lead to significant learning, behavior, and emotional problems. The barriers stem from a variety of widely discussed societal, neighborhood, familial, school, and personal conditions that interfere with success at school and beyond.

Access at:   http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/publications/duffyreport.pdf  100kb