High Stakes Education - Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform

Informationen zum Autor Pauline Lipman is Associate Professor of Education Policy Studies and Research and Director of the Institute for Teacher Development and Research at DePaul University, Chicago. Klappentext Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class. Zusammenfassung This book analyses the ways in which schools in urban areas are shaped and influenced by social, economic and political forces within the social environment. Utilizing research from schools in Chicago, the book will show how schools attempt to Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Preface 1. Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Urban Education 2. Chicago School Reform and Its Political, Economic, and Cultural Context 3. Accountability, Social Differentiation, and Racialized Social Control 4. Like a Hammer Just Knocking Them Down: Regulating African American Schools 5. The Policies and Politics of Cultural Assimilation: Coauthored with Eric Gutstein 6. It's Us versus the Board--The Enemy Race, Class, and the Power to Oppose 7. Beyond Accountability Toward Schools the Create New People for a New Way of Life Methodological Appendix

Product details

• Authors: Pauline Lipman, Lipman Pauline, Pauline Lipman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2003
• EAN: 9780415935081
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93508-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Critical Social Thought; Critical Social Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Schools and pre-schools, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Urban communities / city life