Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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 [and others]
  • The context of cultural inventions: learning and curriculum / Ivor F. Goodson
  • The role of standards and assessments in national reform / David Lee Stevenson.
  • 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.
  • 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.