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Author: Linda McNeil Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135963290 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 337
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A provocative look into the reality for students and teachers of standardized testing. Teaching methods and strategies are analyzed to find out how this change in practice influences both how and what children learn.
Author: Linda McNeil Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135963290 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 337
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A provocative look into the reality for students and teachers of standardized testing. Teaching methods and strategies are analyzed to find out how this change in practice influences both how and what children learn.
Author: Linda M. McNeil Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135209286 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 261
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McNeil traces the poor quality of high school instruction t the tensions between the social control purposes of schooling and the schools' educational goals.
Author: Samuel Bowles Publisher: Haymarket Books ISBN: 1608461319 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 362
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""This seminal work . . . establishes a persuasive new paradigm. Contemporary Sociology. No book since Schooling in Capitalist America has taken on the systemic forces hard at work undermining our education system. This classic reprint is an invaluable resource for radical educators. Samuel Bowles is research professor and director of the behavioral sciences program at the Santa Fe Institute, and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts. Herbert Gintis is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Peter Downs Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1610488334 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 231
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Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the highly publicized school reform movement already have been tried out in St. Louis with disastrous results. Along with demonstrating the failure of school reform prescriptions to improve education, the experience of St. Louis demonstrates that the ideological premise of the reform movement, that a focus on providing opportunities for private profit-taking will necessarily improve schools, is both wrong and conflicts with the ideals of democracy, accountability, and justice.
Author: Pauline Lipman Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791437698 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 356
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Explores the intersection of two central issues in American education today: school reform through restructuring and alienation from school of many children of color. A tough look at the impact of teachers' and administrators' beliefs and practices.
Author: David F. Labaree Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674063864 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 313
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What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all childrenÑbut all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way Òthis archetype of dysfunction works so well at what we want it to do even as it evades what we explicitly ask it to do.Ó Ever since the common school movement of the nineteenth century, mass schooling has been seen as an essential solution to great social problems. Yet as wave after wave of reform movements have shown, schools are extremely difficult to change. Labaree shows how the very organization of the locally controlled, administratively limited school system makes reform difficult. At the same time, he argues, the choices of educational consumers have always overwhelmed top-down efforts at school reform. Individual families seek to use schools for their own purposesÑto pursue social opportunity, if they need it, and to preserve social advantage, if they have it. In principle, we want the best for all children. In practice, we want the best for our own. Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.
Author: Diane Ravitch Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0345806352 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 418
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From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at today’s American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools. In a chapter-by-chapter breakdown she puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve our public schools. She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it.
Author: Barry M. Franklin Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791419076 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 240
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This book examines the joint effort of twentieth-century public schoool administrators and private philanthropy to initiate reforms to provide for children with learning difficulties. The author explores the development of these reforms from the establishment of special classes for backward children at the beginning of the century to the creation of programs for learning disabled children. He considers what this history tells us about current efforts to provide for at-risk students. He looks at both the way school administrators conceptualized childhood learning difficulties and the institutional arrangements which they introduced to accommodate these students, and pays particular attention to the preference of school administrators throughout this century for accommodating low achieving children in segregated classes and programs.
Author: Hava Rachel Gordon Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479890057 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 311
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How local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal school reform Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School! Hava Rachel Gordon takes us inside these fascinating school reform movements, exploring their origins, aims, and victories as they work to build a better future for our education system. Focusing on a school district in Denver, Colorado, Gordon takes a look at different coalitions within the school reform movement, as well as the surprising competition that arises between them. Drawing on over eighty interviews and ethnographic research, she explores how these groups vie for power, as well as the role that race, class, and gentrification play in shaping their successes and failures, strategies and structures. Gordon shows us what happens when people mobilize from the ground up and advocate for educational change. This Is Our School! gives us an inside look at the diverse voices within the school reform movement, each of which plays an important role in the fight to improve public education.
Author: Linda McNeil
Author: Linda McNeil
Author: Linda M. McNeil
Author: Samuel Bowles
Author: Linda McNeil
Author: Peter Downs
Author: Pauline Lipman
Author: David F. Labaree
Author: Diane Ravitch
Author: Barry M. Franklin
Author: Hava Rachel Gordon