Spotlight on Student Engagement, Motivation, and Achievement (Harvard Education Letter Spotlight)

"Nobody stays in school because of Algebra 2.

This educator s chance remark captures an essential truth: what keeps students in school or fails to is rarely the content that they are taught. Only when students feel engaged both socially and academically can schools and teachers lay the groundwork to motivate achievement. This volume, the fifth in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight series, brings together fifteen seminal articles that examine research and practice on these complex and interrelated issues.

Foreword by Sam M. Intrator, associate professor of education and of the Program in Urban Studies at Smith College and codirector of Smith s Urban Education Initiative.