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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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Additional Authors
  • Jones, Bruce Anthony
  • Borman, Kathryn M.
  • Hawkins, Augustus F.
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