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Notes:

• Much of the material in this volume was originally presented at an invitational conference held at the Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education –Pref.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Resilience in individual development : successful adaptation despite risk and adversity / Ann S. Masten — Variations in the experience of resilience / Edmund W. Gordon and Lauren Dohee Song — Educational resilience in inner cities / Margaret C. Wang, Geneva D. Haertel, and Herbert J. Walberg — Understanding resilient students : the use of national longitudinal databases / Samuel S. Peng — The Americanization of resilience : deconstructing research practice / Leo C. Rigsby — On resilience : questions of validity / David W. Bartelt — Resilience as a dispositional quality : some methodological points / Joan McCord — Risk and resilience : contextual influences on the development of African-American adolescents / Ronald D. Taylor — Special education as a resilience-related venture / Maynard C. Reynolds — Effectiveness and efficiency in inner-city public schools : charting school resilience / Lascelles Anderson — Understanding resilience : implications for inner-city schools and their near and far communities / H. Jerome Freiberg — Contextualizing resiliency / Howard A. Liddle — Organizing for responsiveness : the heterogeneous school community / Diana Oxley — Epilogue : educational resilience – challenges and prospects / Edmund W. Gordon and Margaret C. Wang.

Subjects:

• Education, Urban — United States.
• Education, Urban — Social aspects — United States.
• Children with social disabilities — Education — United States.
• Resilience (Personality trait) — United States.

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