From the campus : perspectives on the school reform movement
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From the campus : perspectives on the school reform movement
Praeger, 1989
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 225-226
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This important new book assembles internationally prominent school-of-education faculty and researchers to provide valuable perspectives on the school reform or excellence movement. From the Campus addresses timely issues in education in a scholarly yet easy-to-read style. The contributors represent a wide variety of disciplines including comparative and international education, history, sociology, political science, curriculum theory, testing and evaluation, school administration, special education and more. They confront the most controversial issues in education of our time; equity and excellence, at-risk children, the education of language-minority students, the governance of education, parental choice, and the importance of home, family, and elementary and preschool education.
This book broadens the scope of the debate over school reform to include concerns that the current enthusiasm for excellence will erode earlier gains for equality, and that the reform movement is not paying enough attention to at-risk and disadvantaged children. The contributors examine the need for radical restructuring of schools in order to combine excellence with equality. From the Campus offers insight, values, and pedagogical expertise from education scholars enabling the reader to be well-informed in the school reform debate. Parents, school board members, policy makers, school administrators, teachers, and education students will find From the Campus a source of stimulating ideas as well as a valuable resource.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction: A Role for Faculties of Education Every School a Clinic: A Historical Perspective on Modern American Education Neo-Humanism and Educational Reform A Vocational Educator's Perspective on the School Reform Movement Testing and the School Reform Movement: In Need of a Thermostat Instead of a Thermometer Reform in Special and Regular Education: An Interface The "Distinctive" High School, Structural Change, and the School Reform Movement The Withered Roots of School Reform: An Organizational Perspective The Communal Ethos, Privatization and the Dilemma of Being Public Language-Minority Students and Educational Reform: An Incomplete Agenda Language Arts and Literacy: The Endangered Core of School Reform The Politics of School Reform The School Reform Movement: A Comparative Perspective Selected Bibliography Index
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