Changing classes : school reform and the new economy / Marin Packer.
"Changing Classes tells the story of a small, poor, ethnically mixed school district in Michigan's rust belt, a community in turmoil over the announced closing of a nearby auto assembly plant. As teachers and administrators began to find ways to make schooling more relevant to working-clas...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Learning in doing
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
| Summary: | "Changing Classes tells the story of a small, poor, ethnically mixed school district in Michigan's rust belt, a community in turmoil over the announced closing of a nearby auto assembly plant. As teachers and administrators began to find ways to make schooling more relevant to working-class children, two large-scale school reform initiatives swept into town: the governor's "marketplace" reforms and the National Science Foundation's "State Systemic Initiative." All this is set against the backdrop of the transformation to a global, post-Fordist economy. The result is an account of the complex linkages at work as society structures the development of children to adulthood."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511571367 |