Research Catalog

Title

Implementing educational reform : sociological perspectives on educational policy / edited by Kathryn M. Borman [and others].

Publication

Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub., ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Borman, Kathryn M.

Description

xxxiii, 496 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Social and policy issues in education

Uniform Title

Social and policy issues in education

Subject

• Educational sociology > United States > Congresses
• Education and state > United States > Congresses
• Education > Aims and objectives > United States > Congresses
• Educational law and legislation > United States > Congresses
• Education > Aims and objectives
• Education and state
• Educational law and legislation
• Educational sociology
• Bildungspolitik
• Kongress
• Pädagogische Soziologie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• United States
• USA
• USA

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Presentations and summaries of round table discussions of a conference held in 1995 at the University of South Florida.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part I. Systemic Reform : Sociology and Educational Policy. Sociology of education and educational policy : when worlds collide or happily ever after? / Kathryn M. Borman and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. -- What sociologists know : response and rejoinder / Charles E. Bidwell ; Systemic reform : issue sheet / George Farkas, Peter M. Hall, Richard M. Ingersoll, and Amy Stuart Wells, compiled by Sally L. Bond -- Part II. National Standards for Content and Performance. Standards and assessments in Goals 2000 / David Stevenson -- National standards for assessments and performance : reactions, knowledge base, and recommendations for research : response and rejoinder / Gary Natriello ; National standards for content and performance : issue sheet / Mark Berends, Rolf K. Blank, Sally Kilgore, and Aaron M. Pallas, compiled by Carolyn Riehl -- Part III. Opportunity-to-Learn Standards. Equality of educational opportunity and the Goals 20000, Educate America Act / Jomills Henry Braddock II and Mary M. Williams -- An animal guide to opportunity-to-learn standards : response and rejoinder / Elizabeth G. Cohen ; Opportunity-to-learn standards : issue sheet / Kevin J. Dougherty, Harold S. Himmelfarb. and Thomas B. Hoffer, compiled by Pamela A. Quiroz -- Part IV. School-to-Work Opportunities Act. School-to-work opportunities : prospects and challenges / Ivan Charner -- A sociological perspective on school-to-work opportunities : response and rejoinder / Jeylan T. Mortimer ; School-to-work opportunities act : issue sheet / Rolf K. Blank and George Farkas, compiled by B. Jeannie Lum -- Part V. School, Parent, and Community Support. School, parent, and community involvement : the federal government invests in social capital / Barbara Schneider -- Federal education legislation : implications for school, family and community connections : response and rejoinder / Joyce L. Epstein ; Opportunity and danger : understanding the business contribution to public education reform : response and rejoinder / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson ; School, parent, and community support : issue sheet / Harold S. Himmelfarb, Thomas B. Hoffer, and Amy Stuart Wells, compiled by Sally Lubeck -- Part VI. Professional Development. Primacy and the promise of professional development in the nation's education reform agenda : sociological views / Joan E. Talbert -- Professional development in the new federal education legislation : response and rejoinder / Elizabeth L. Useem -- Professional development : issue sheet / Richard M. Ingersoll and Alan R. Sadovnik, compiled by Jaci Webb-Dempsey -- Part VII. Goals 2000 : Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools. Creating safe, disciplined and drug-free schools / Denise C. Gottfredson -- The social organization of safe high schools / Valerie E. Lee and Robert G. Croninger -- Confronting disruptive behavior : creating safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools : response and rejoinder / William Velez ; Safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools : issue sheet / Mark Berends, Aaron M. Pallas, and Joan Z. Spade, compiled by Chandra Muller -- Part VIII. Implications of the Goals 2000 Legislation. Implications of federal legislation for states and local schools / Marilyn Katzenmeyer -- Goals 2000 in organizational context : will it make a difference for states, districts, and schools? / Adam Gamoran ; Implications of Goals 2000 for state and local school authorities / Maureen T. Hallinan ; Implications of the Goals 2000 legislation : issue sheet / Kevin J, Dougherty and Peter M. Hall, compiled by Joan Z. Spade and Alan R. Sadovnik.

ISBN

• 1567502660
• 9781567502664
• 1567502679
• 9781567502671

LCCN

96013154

OCLC

• ocm34640711
• 34640711
• SCSB-2112217

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library