Transforming Schools (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cookson, Peter W. Jr.; Schneider, Barbara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 607
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135544256
• Artikelnr.: 40830860

Autorenporträt

Cookson, Peter W. Jr.; Schneider, Barbara

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Section I: Conditions for Educational Opportunities
*Schooling
Achievement
and Mobility
Aaron M. Pallas
*Tracking and Detracking Practices: Relevance for Learning
Maureen T. Hallinan
*Parental Ties to the School and Community and Mathematics Achievement
Chandra Muller
*Reading Reality More Carefully Than Books: A Structural Approach to Race and Class Differences in Adolescent Educational Performance
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Sumie Okazaki
Dunchun Zheng
*Dropouts: Definitions
Causes
Consequences and Remedies
Gary Natriello
*Section II: Changing Definitions of Education
*Mapping Knowledge Perspectives in Studies of Educational Change
Rolland G. Paulston
*Expanding Definitions of Learning and Teaching: Notes from the MI Underground
Mindy Kornhaber and Mara Krechevsky
*Thinking Like a Fish: The Implications of the Image of School Community for Connections Between Parents and Schools
Mary Erina Driscoll
*Neighborhoods and Corporations: Community Influence on Education Reform
Kathryn Borman and Debra A. Martinson with Louis Castenell
Karen Gallagher and Sally Kilgore
*Schools Must Do More For Children-Child Advocacy as an Educational Responsibility
Judith H. Cohen
*Section III: Learning and Assessment
*The Context of Cultural Inventions: Learning and Curriculum
Ivor F. Goodson
*The Politics of a National Curriculum
Michael W. Apple
*The Role of Standards and Assessments in a National Model of Reform
David Stevenson
*High School Curriculum Differentiation and Postsecondary Outcomes
Thomas B. Hoffer
Section IV: New Strategies for Solving Educational Problems
*Policy
Knowledge and Power: Some Issues for the Study of Educational Reform
Thomas S. Popkewitz
*Can the Big-City School System be Governed
Kenneth K. Wong
*Administrative Leadership and the Crisis in the Study of Educational Administration: Technical Rationality and Its Aftermath
James G. and Hanne B. Mawhinney with the assistance of Jerald Paquette
*Privatization: Integrating Private Services in Public Schools
Ellen B. Goldring and Anna V. Shaw Sullivan
*Why School Choice? A Question of Values
Peter Cookson and Barbara Schneider
Special Features*wide coverage of important topics in education policy at both federal and local levels *section introductions give succinct views of the significance of each essay