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Title:
Transforming schools / edited by Peter W. Cookson, Jr. andBarbara Schneider.
Publisher:
Garland Pub.,
Copyright Date:
1995
Description:
xvi, 607 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Education--United States--Aims and objectives.
Educational change--United States.
School management and organization--United States.
Other Authors:
Cookson, Peter W.
Schneider, Barbara, 1946-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Mapping knowledge perspectives in studies of educational change / Rolland G. Paulston / Expanding definitions of learning and teaching: notes from the MI underground / Mindy Kornhaber, 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...[et al.] -- The context of cultural inventions: learning and curriculum / Ivor F. Goodson -- The role of standards and assessments in national reform / David Lee Stevenson --
Privatization: integrating private services in public schools / Ellen B. Goldring, Anna V. Shaw Sullivan -- Why school choice? a question of values / Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Barbara Schneider.
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, Dunchun Zheng -- Dropouts: definitions, causes, consequences, and remedies / Gary Natriello --
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 --
Series:
Garland reference library of social science ; vol. 888
ISBN:
9780815315339 (pbk.)
0815315333 (pbk.)
9780815312574 (hardcover)
0815312571 (hardcover)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)31173051
LCCN:
94036371
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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