As a result of large numbers of students failing to master the basic skills in education, many communities have turned to standardized testing as a possible solution. This book looks at the reality for students and teachers of such testing.
As a result of large numbers of students failing to master the basic skills in education, many communities have turned to standardized testing as a po...
This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connection between politics and policy is both underscored and criticized, Mary Lee Smith and her associates take their criticism one decisive step further, examining the transitive relation between politics and actual classroom practice. They show that educational policy serves as political propaganda directed at an electorate desperate for change. They refocus current educational debates, casting them in their true partisan light while demonstrating...
This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connect...
This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connection between politics and policy is both underscored and criticized, Mary Lee Smith and her associates take their criticism one decisive step further, examining the transitive relation between politics and actual classroom practice. They show that educational policy serves as political propaganda directed at an electorate desperate for change. They refocus current educational debates, casting them in their true partisan light while demonstrating...
This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connect...
This volume is the result of more than three years of ethnographic research, much of which was conducted in the form of interviews with inner-city, at-risk junior high school students.
This volume is the result of more than three years of ethnographic research, much of which was conducted in the form of interviews with inner-city, at...
This work analyses the ways in which schools in urban areas are shaped and influenced by social, economic and political forces within the social environment. Utilizing research from schools in Chicago, the book shows how schools attempt to respond to external factors such as social inequality.
This work analyses the ways in which schools in urban areas are shaped and influenced by social, economic and political forces within the social envir...
Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class.
Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, e...
Parents who wish to choose schools for their children must have more than a desire for different or better - they need detailed knowledge of the processes and practices that will give them access to schools of choice. This book vividly contrasts the experiences of a diverse group of urban parents choosing their children's schools with school choice policies from voluntary integration mandates to the No Child Left Behind Act. Lois Andreeacute;-Bechely carefully uncovers the race- and class-based inequities these policies sustain, documenting the way parents themselves become complicit in the...
Parents who wish to choose schools for their children must have more than a desire for different or better - they need detailed knowledge of the proce...
Parents who wish to choose schools for their children must have more than a desire for different or better - they need detailed knowledge of the processes and practices that will give them access to schools of choice. This book vividly contrasts the experiences of a diverse group of urban parents choosing their children's schools with school choice policies from voluntary integration mandates to the No Child Left Behind Act. Lois Andre-Bechely carefully uncovers the race- and class-based inequities these policies sustain, documenting the way parents themselves become complicit in the...
Parents who wish to choose schools for their children must have more than a desire for different or better - they need detailed knowledge of the proce...
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popul...
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become m...
