Teaching Troubled Children

Summary: This book follows "Anne, " a teacher at "Brighton, " a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed and learning disabled boys, as she works for two years teaching five of the youngest and most troubled children in the school's history. Anne's and her students' story raises critical questions about what and how we teach children of color, poor children, children whose first language is not English, and chil...dren placed in the low "track." [read more]