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Hard truths : uncovering the deep structure of schooling / Barbara Benham Tye ; foreword by Ron Brandt.
Van Pelt Library LB2822.82 .T94 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tye, Barbara Benham, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- United States.
- School management and organization--United States.
- School management and organization.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 204 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- This indispensable volume covers such topics as: -- Events and ideas that have shaped American schools-- Conventional wisdom about schooling-- Media representations of schooling-- How institutional structures tend to work against change-- The relationship of school finance and fiscal limitations to school change-- Parental and community involvement in schooling-- The culture of teaching and the lives of teachers-- When school change is likely to succeed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807739340
- 0807739332
- OCLC:
- 43063175
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