Title: A place called school :
Authors: Goodlad, John I.
Date: 1984
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co.,
Physical description: xix, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: L
Abstract: "Study of schooling in the United States." A study of what's going on in elementary and secondary schools, providing evidence that only a thorough revolution can bring the reality of the school to its ideal.
Contents: Foreword / Theodore R. Sizer -- Can We Have Effective Schools? -- We Want It All -- Beyond Academics -- Inside Classrooms -- Access to Knowledge -- Teachers and the Circumstances of Teaching -- What Schools and Classrooms Teach -- The Same But Different -- Improving the Schools We Have -- Beyond the Schools We Have.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Public schools--United States