Cookson / Schneider Transforming Schools

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-54418-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 607 Seiten

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cookson, Peter W. Jr.

Schneider, Barbara

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Section I: Conditions for Educational Opportunities
*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
*Section II: Changing Definitions of Education
*Mapping Knowledge Perspectives in Studies of Educational Change, Rolland G. Paulston
*Expanding Definitions of Learning and Teaching: Notes from the MI Underground, Mindy Kornhaber and Mara Krechevsky
*Thinking Like a Fish: The Implications of the Image of School Community for Connections Between Parents and Schools, Mary Erina Driscoll
*Neighborhoods and Corporations: Community Influence on Education Reform, Kathryn Borman and Debra A. Martinson with Louis Castenell, Karen Gallagher and Sally Kilgore
*Schools Must Do More For Children-Child Advocacy as an Educational Responsibility, Judith H. Cohen
*Section III: Learning and Assessment
*The Context of Cultural Inventions: Learning and Curriculum, Ivor F. Goodson
*The Politics of a National Curriculum, Michael W. Apple
*The Role of Standards and Assessments in a National Model of Reform, David Stevenson
*High School Curriculum Differentiation and Postsecondary Outcomes, Thomas B. Hoffer
Section IV: New Strategies for Solving Educational Problems
*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. and Hanne B. Mawhinney with the assistance of Jerald Paquette
*Privatization: Integrating Private Services in Public Schools, Ellen B. Goldring and Anna V. Shaw Sullivan
*Why School Choice? A Question of Values, Peter Cookson and Barbara Schneider
Special Features*wide coverage of important topics in education policy at both federal and local levels *section introductions give succinct views of the significance of each essay