School Social Systems and Student Achievement
Author : Wilbur B. Brookover
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Wilbur B. Brookover
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Richard Rothstein
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807745564
Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to Richard Rothstein, "Closing the gaps between lower-class and middle-class children requires social and economic reform as well as school improvement. Unfortunately, the trend is to shift most of the burden to schools, as if they alone can eradicate poverty and inequality." In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school. This book features: a summary of numerous studies linking school achievement to health care quality, nutrition, childrearing styles, housing stability, parental economic security, and more ; aA look at erroneous and misleading data that underlie commonplace claims that some schools "beat the demographic odds and therefore any school can close the achievement gap if only it adopted proper practices." ; and an analysis of how the over-emphasis of standardized tests in federal law obscures the true achievement gap and makes narrowing it more difficult.
Author : Wilbur B. Brookover
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 1980*
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN :
Author : Abdullah Ayed Al-Thubaiti
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN :
Author : Emma Sorbring
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030282775
This volume takes an international and multidisciplinary approach to understanding students’ academic achievement. It does so by integrating educational literature with developmental psychology and family studies perspectives. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a particular country: China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, or the United States. It describes the country as a cultural context, examines the current school system and parenting in light of the school system, and provides empirical evidence from that country regarding links between parenting and students’ academic achievement. The book highlights similarities and differences in education and parenting across these nine countries - all varying widely in socioeconomic and cultural factors that affect schools and families. The volume contributes to greater understanding of links between parenting and academic performance in different cultural groups. It sheds light on how school systems and parenting are embedded in larger cultural settings that have implications for students’ educational experiences and academic achievement. As two of the most important contexts in which children and adolescents spend time, understanding how schools and families jointly contribute to academic achievement holds promise for advancing the international agenda of promoting quality education for all.
Author : Ovid K. Wong
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 160709147X
The challenge of proper school finance goes beyond having a balanced budget to finding strategies that maximize money to improve schools and equalize student achievement. School finance deals with how money works to support school operations and answer rigorous accountability such as the No Child Left Behind mandate. This book paints a comprehensive picture of school finance to illuminate issues with the current system and suggest ways to improve that system.
Author : Maureen T. Hallinan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 1489904689
This volume addresses key issues in the sociology of education concerning how schools are organized for instruction and what processes link school organization and instruction to educa tional achievement. The content of the chapters represents a shift in focus from traditional and even recent themes in soci ology of education, including the study of school effects and of classroom processes, to a concern with the social organization of schools and its consequences for student outcomes. Rather than reviewing or evaluating existing research, the chapters present new and developing conceptualizations of the school ing process and provide theoretical models to guide future empirical work on schools. A unique feature of this book is its heavy emphasis on theory. Each chapter presents a theoretical model or argument concerning an issue of central importance in sociology of edu cation. The empirical analyses and simulations that are included are often more for illustrative purposes than for rigorous hypothesis testing, and some chapters have no data analysis at all. The major strength of the volume, therefore, lies in the new conceptualizations and reconceptualizations it provides of fundamental processes relating school organization to student learning. Theoretical work such as this is exactly what is needed in an area that has traditionally been, for the most part, empir ical and atheoretical. Another important feature of this volume is the various approaches it presents to the study of school organization.
Author : Gordon Cawelti
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN :
Author : James Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0429977395
Drawing on several principles of sociological theory, James S. Coleman and his colleagues construct a new design for American schooling. The authors present compelling evidence on the deficits of our educational system compared to other countries, arguing that the problems are the result of inappropriate incentives for teachers, students, and parents.