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Transforming schools
- Title
- Transforming schools / edited by Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Barbara Schneider.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Garland Pub., 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | LA210 .T74 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 611 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Garland reference library of social science ; v. 888
- Uniform Title
- Garland reference library of social science ; v. 888.
- Subjects
- 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 and 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 and 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, Louis Castenell, Karen Gallagher, Sally B. Kilgore and Debra A. Martinson.
- Schools Must Do More for Children - Child Advocacy as an Educational Responsibility / Judith H. Cohen -- 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 and 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 W. Cookson, Jr. and Barbara Schneider.
- ISBN
- 0815312571
- 0815315333 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 94036371
- OCLC
- 31173051
- ocm31173051
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries