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OverviewFocusing on issues of equity and opportunity in one urban high school, the book reveals how prominent American cultural values--in particular, students', teachers', and administrators' conceptions of educational opportunity--undermined the education that students received. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick James McQuillanPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780791435007ISBN 10: 0791435008 Pages: 243 Publication Date: 20 November 1997 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA chilling account of the force of inertia American schools can mount in the face of reform. I dare anyone to sit down and read this book through without having to come up for air and a long walk. Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School is a timely contribution to the analysis of historical, attitudinal, and social resistance to meaningful change in classroom life. -- Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University In a way rarely found in the literature, this book contains fine grained description of one urban high school, and, at the same time, places that school in the context of American culture. Anyone interested in educational reform and the impact of implicit and explicit characteristics of our culture will find this book both engrossing and instructive. -- Seymour Sarason, Yale University McQuillan's documentation and analysis of a high school reform effort is thorough, intriguing and revealing. He attends carefully to the influence of American culture on urban society, and he thereby gives an important critique to policies which largely ignore the objects of schooling--the students themselves. He shows how even the best-intentioned reform effort stumbles when it takes too little account of the attitudes and expectations of adolescents. -- Theodore R. Sizer, Chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools """A chilling account of the force of inertia American schools can mount in the face of reform. I dare anyone to sit down and read this book through without having to come up for air and a long walk. Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School is a timely contribution to the analysis of historical, attitudinal, and social resistance to meaningful change in classroom life."" -- Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University ""In a way rarely found in the literature, this book contains fine grained description of one urban high school, and, at the same time, places that school in the context of American culture. Anyone interested in educational reform and the impact of implicit and explicit characteristics of our culture will find this book both engrossing and instructive."" -- Seymour Sarason, Yale University ""McQuillan's documentation and analysis of a high school reform effort is thorough, intriguing and revealing. He attends carefully to the influence of American culture on urban society, and he thereby gives an important critique to policies which largely ignore the objects of schooling--the students themselves. He shows how even the best-intentioned reform effort stumbles when it takes too little account of the attitudes and expectations of adolescents."" -- Theodore R. Sizer, Chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools" Author InformationPatrick James McQuillan is Assistant Professor in the School of Education, University of Colorado. His previous work includes Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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