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Stability and Change in American Education
Robert Dreeben is one of the most widely read and influential sociologists of education of the past half-century and the author of several important books, one of which (the 1968 …
Between the State and the Schoolhouse
Between the State and the Schoolhouse examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative’s promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in …
Conflicting Missions?
Ask people whether teachers unions are good or bad for education and you are likely to receive a wide variety of opinions. A 1998 Gallup Poll asked whether teachers unions helped, …
The Tracking Wars
In the 1980s, a nationwide reform movement sprang up in opposition to "tracking," the controversial practice of schools grouping students by ability and organizing curriculum by …
The Great Curriculum Debate
Since the early twentieth century, American educators have been engaged in a heated debate over what schools should teach and how they should teach it. The partisans —"education …
Bridging the Achievement Gap
The achievement gap between white students and African American and Hispanic students has been debated by scholars and lamented by policymakers since it was first documented in …
Getting Choice Right
This second volume from the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education examines the connections between school choice and the goals of equity and efficiency in …
Lessons Learned
Standards for education achievement are under scrutiny throughout the industrial world. In this technological age, student performance in mathematics is seen as being particularly …