Research Catalog

Title

Transforming schools / edited by Peter W. Cookson, Jr. andBarbara Schneider.

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cookson, Peter W.
• Schneider, Barbara L.

Description

xvi, 611 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Garland reference library of social science ; vol. 888

Uniform Title

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 888.

Subject

• Educational change > United States
• Education > Aims and objectives > United States
• School management and organization > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 --
• Mapping knowledge perspectives in studies of educational change / Rolland G. Paulston / Expanding definitions of learning and teaching: notes from the MI underground / Mindy Kornhaber, Mara Krechevsky -- Thinking like a fish: the implications of the image of school community for connections between parents and schools / Mary Erina Driscoll -- Education reform and policy implications / Kathryn M. Borman...[et al.] -- The context of cultural inventions: learning and curriculum / Ivor F. Goodson -- The role of standards and assessments in national reform / David Lee Stevenson --
• The politics of a national curriculum / Michael W. Apple -- High school curriculum differentiation and postsecondary outcomes / Thomas B. Hoffer -- 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. Cibulka, Hanne B. Mawhinney --
• Privatization: integrating private services in public schools / Ellen B. Goldring, Anna V. Shaw Sullivan -- Why school choice? a question of values / Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Barbara Schneider.

Call Number

JFD 95-12596

ISBN

• 0815312571 (hardcover)
• 0815315333 (pbk.)

LCCN

94036371

OCLC

31173051

Title

Transforming schools / edited by Peter W. Cookson, Jr. andBarbara Schneider.

Imprint

New York : Garland Pub., 1995.

Series

Garland reference library of social science ; vol. 888

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 888.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cookson, Peter W.

Schneider, Barbara L.

Research Call Number

JFD 95-12596