Providing Effective Schooling for Students at Risk

Diane Jackson

Diane Jackson, efficacy coordinator for the Detroit Public Schools, talks about the process involved with the efficacy approach. Excerpted from the video series Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference #7, Preparing Students for Work in the 21st Century (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1992).

"Ethicacy is not a feel good process. We want our children to feel good, but we're outcome based. We want our children to be successful, but we stress hard work, effective ethics. First, you have to be committed to learning, and then focus, and then a strategy and teach our children how to effectively work hard that they will be successful. As a result of being successful, then they will feel good."

This Critical Issue was researched and written by Mary Ann Costello, a free-lance writer, based on an outline and comments submitted by John H. Hollifield, associate director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR), and Lynn Stinnette, director of Center for School and Community Development at the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

Date posted: 1996