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Investing in U.S. schools : directions for educational policy
- Title
- Investing in U.S. schools : directions for educational policy / edited by Bruce Anthony Jones and Kathryn M. Borman ; foreword by Augustus F. Hawkins.
- Publication
- Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., ©1994.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Book/Text | Use in library | LA217.2 .I58 1994 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 222 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Social and policy issues in education
- Uniform Title
- Social and policy issues in education.
- Alternative Title
- Investing in US schools.
- Investing in United States schools.
- Subject
- Education > Aims and objectives > United States
- School management and organization > United States
- Community and school > United States
- Education and state > United States
- Educational change > United States
- Community and school
- Education > Aims and objectives
- Education and state
- Educational change
- School management and organization
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Foreword / Augustus F. Hawkins -- 1. Schools in the "Community" and Urban Context: Incorporating Collaboration and Empowerment / Bruce Anthony Jones -- 2. Commitment to Community / Zakia McKinney -- 3. Creating Shared Visions: The Process of Community Deliberation / Louis Castenell and Sally B. Kilgore -- 4. Facilitating the Transition from School to Work / John C. Weidman -- 5. Incentives for Teachers: Mixing the Intrinsic with the Financial / William A. Firestone -- 6. Teacher Burnout in the Face of Reform: Some Caveats in Breaking the Mold / Anthony Gary Dworkin and Merric Lee Townsend -- 7. Today Kentucky, Tomorrow America? Linking the Foxfire Philosophy of Teaching to Contemporary American School Reform / Alan J. De Young -- 8. Edu-Culture: An Innovative Strategy for Promoting Identity and Scholarship in Young African-American Males / Kenneth L. Ghee -- 9. Choice and Urban School Reform / Charles Glenn.
- ISBN
- 0893919497
- 9780893919498
- 0893919500
- 9780893919504
- LCCN
- 93002376
- OCLC
- ocm28256370
- 28256370
- SCSB-8893788
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library