Transforming Schools / Edition 1

by Peter W. Jr. Cookson, Barbara Schneider

Overview

Government policies at the state, local, and federal levels have always shaped the daily lives of U.S. schools. Issues of equity and access dominate, and the newer issue of global competition is also important. This volume of essays by noted theorists and practitioners considers current educational policy issues. Topics and contributors include: Achievement and Mobility-Aaron Pallas; Tracking-Maureen Hallinan; Dropouts-Gary Natriello; Governing the Big-City School System-Kenneth Wong; International and Comparative Analysis-Rolland Paulston; Politics of a National Curriculum-Michael Apple; School Leadership-James Cibulka; Parental and Community Involvement-Mary Driscoll; Advocacy-Judith Cohen; Reform and Policy-Kathy Borman, et al. An index is provided.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815312574
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/1995
Series:	Reference Library of Social Science Series , #888
Pages:	626
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cookson, Peter W. Jr.; Schneider, Barbara

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Tables and Figures

Section One: Conditions for Educational Opportunities

1. Schooling, Achievement, and Mobility, Aaron M. Pallas

2. Tracking and Detracking Practices: Relevance for Learning, Maureen T. Hallinan

3. Parental Ties to the School and Community and Mathematics Achievement, Chandra Muller

4. 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

5. Dropouts: Definitions, Causes, Consequences, and Remedies, Gary Natriello

Section Two: Changing Definitions of Education

6. Mapping Knowledge Perspectives in Studies of Educational Change, Rolland G. Paulston

7. Expanding Definitions of Learning and Teaching: Notes from the MI Underground, Mindy Kornhaber and Mara Krechevsky

8. Thinking Like a Fish: The Implications of the Image of School Community for Connections between parents and Schools, Mary Erina Driscoll

9. Education Reform and Policy Implications, Kathryn M. Borman, Louis Castenell, Karen Gallagher, Sally B. Kilgore, Debra A. Martinson

10. Schools Must Do More For Children-Child Advocacy as an Educational Responsibility, Judith H. Cohen

Section Three: Learning and Assessment

11. The Context of Cultural Inventions: Learning and Curriculum, Ivor F. Goodson

12. The Role of Standards and Assessments in National Reform, David Lee Stevenson

13. The Politics of a National Curriculum, Michael W. Apple

14. High School Curriculum Differentiation and Postsecondary Outcomes, Thomas B. Hoffer

Section Four: New Strategies for Solving Educational Problems

15. Policy, Knowledge, and Power: Some Issues for the Study of Educational Reform, Thomas S. Popkewtiz

16. Can the Big-City School System Be Governed? Kenneth K. Wong

17. Administrative Leadership and the Crisis in the Study of Educational Administration: Technical Rationality and Its Aftermath, James G. Cibulka and Hanne B. Mawhinney with the assistance of Jerald Paquette

18. Privatization: Integrating Private Services in Public Schools, Ellen B. Goldring and Anna V. Shaw Sullivan

19. Why School Choice? A Question of Values, peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Barbara Schneider

Contributors

Index

Editorial Reviews

"This is an antidote to the cynicism and disillusionment with schools and other institutions in our society. Yes, we can transform the schools, but it will take knowledge and ideas-knowledge of schools as social organizations, embedded in complex cultural and political institutions, and ideas about what must be done to change them; this book has both." — Ann Lieberman, Columbia University
"This is an antidote to the cynicism and disillusionment with schools and other institutions in society. Yes, we can transform the schools, but it will take knowledge and ideas...this book has both." — Anne Lieberman, Professor and Co-Director, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST), Teachers College, Columbia University

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