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Transforming schools / edited by Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Barbara Schneider.

Cookson, Peter W. (Added Author). Schneider, Barbara L. (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 0815312571 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0815315333 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xvi, 611 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 1995.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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 --

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