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Standards reform in high-poverty schools : managing conflict and building capacity

Title: Standards reform in high-poverty schools : managing conflict and building capacity / Carol A. Barnes ; foreword by David K. Cohen.
Author: Barnes, Carol A. (Carol Ann), 1949-
Publication: New York : Teachers College Press, ©2002.

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Description

xv, 159 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This author brings the voices of people in one school to the "policy table" at which so many sit with little understanding of the other realities involved in their reform strategies--even those strategies that are well reasoned and based on the authority of research.

Series Statement

The series on school reform

Uniform Title

Series on school reform

Subject

Genre/Form

Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150) and index.

Contents

Foreword / David K. Cohen -- Ch. 1. Mission Elementary: An Introduction -- Ch. 2. High Standards, Competing Priorities, and Complexity at Mission Elementary -- Ch. 3. Managing Competing Commitments in Second-Grade Classrooms -- Ch. 4. Conflict and Change in Third-Grade Classrooms -- Ch. 5. Clarity, Complexity, and Collaboration: The Technical and Social Tensions of Transforming Policy into Practice -- Ch. 6. Managing Trade-Offs: A Closer Look at Gains and Losses -- Ch. 7. The Fate of Education Reform: Problems and Possibilities.

ISBN

0807742635
9780807742631
0807742627
9780807742624

LCCN

2002020295

OCLC

ocm49649045
49649045
SCSB-1264862

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library