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The state of the system : a reality check on Canada's schools /

"Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system has become a centralized, bureaucratic fortress that, every year, be...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bennett, Paul W., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A School System under Stress
  • Shaping of the System: The Modern Bureaucratic Education Statein Formation, 1920-93
  • Testing Time: The Triumph of Testing, Accountability, and Systems,1993-2015
  • Consolidate and Control: School Consolidation and Bureaucratic Managerialism
  • Education on Wheels: The Hidden Costs of Busing Schoolchildren
  • Public Choice in the System: Catholic Separate Schools, Linguistic Boards, and Diversity
  • The "One-Size-Fits-All" Model: Uniformity, Inclusion,and Marginalization
  • The "Success for All" Curriculum: The Downside of Universality
  • Student Assessment Experiments: Soft Skills and Hard Realities
  • The Big Disconnect: High School Graduates and the Preparedness Problem
  • The School Closure Wars: and Resistance to Consolidation
  • School Boards in Crisis: The Withering of Local Democracy.