Educational Resiliency

Mission Statement: The mission of this series is to bring issues of diversity and educational risk to the forefront of national attention in order to assist the nation''s diverse students at risk of educational failure to achieve academic excellence. This series will focus on critical issues in the education of linguistic and cultural minority students and those placed at risk by factors of race poverty and geographic location. Each volume will include empirical studies and syntheses of research that provide an integrated view of the emerging body of research within areas such as: (a) language learning and academic achievement (b) professional development (c) family peers schools and communities (d) instruction in context and (e) integrated school reform. In order to inform scholars practitioners and policy makers each volume will provide fundamental knowledge about effective programs and practices that affect students place at risk through linguistic racial economic and geographic diversity. Some volumes will be written by one or two authors on a given aspect of educational diversity. Most however will be edited thematic works with chapters written by several expe