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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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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.