Restructuring Schools: Promising Practices and Policies

✍ Scribed by Maureen T. Hallinan (auth.), Maureen T. Hallinan (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Restructuring Schools presents conceptual and empirical models of school organization for promoting students' achievement. Papers by nationally recognized educational sociologists examine four dimensions of the educational process-school organization and governance, organization of students for instruction, classroom processes, and school-to-work transitions-and suggest methods to increase the effectiveness of each. The volume also explores the innovative concept of output-driven education which redirects attention to student achievement as an outcome variable.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Achievement-Oriented School Design....Pages 11-29
Lost in Translation....Pages 31-55
Markets for Organizational Reform....Pages 57-80
Lessons from Catholic High Schools on Renewing Our Educational Institutions....Pages 81-98
School Choice in New York City....Pages 99-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Tracking Students for Instruction....Pages 113-131
Local Constraints on Opportunity to Learn Mathematics in High School....Pages 133-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Talking and Working Together....Pages 157-174
Academic Challenge, Motivation, and Self-Esteem....Pages 175-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Reforming Education....Pages 199-233
Creating Linkages in the High School-to-Work Transition....Pages 235-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-263

✦ Subjects

Educational Psychology; Psychology, general; Sociology, general