Special issue on sociology and educational policy
Subtitle: bringing scholarship and practice together
By: Peter W. Cookson, Joseph C. Conaty, and Harold S. Himmelfarb, guest editors.
Contributors: Cookson, Peter W.; Conaty, Joseph C.; Himmelfarb, Harold S.; Conference on Equality and Excellence in Education (1993 : Washington, D.C.)
Series: Sociology of education -- extra issue 1996; Sociology of education -- 1996.
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Educational sociology.; Sociology -- Research.
Other titles: Sociology and educational policy; Bringing scholarship and practice together
Notes: Consists of papers presented at the Conference on Equality and Excellence in Education (held June, 1993 in Washington, D.C.) and papers responding to a call for papers in Sociology of education.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: New connections for sociology and education: contributing to school reform / Joyce L. Epstein; value: The problem of individualism in family-school policies / Annette Lareau and Wesley Shumar; value: Opportunity-to-learn standards: a sociological critique / Kevin J. Dougherty; value: Opportunities to learn and student diversity: prospects and pitfalls of a common core curriculum / James M. McPartland and Barbara Schneider; value: Access to and opportunity in postsecondary education in the United States: a review / Therese L. Baker and William Vélez; value: Policy uses of research on the high school-to-work transition / James E. Rosenbaum; value: Forming American educational policy with international data: lessons from the sociology of education / John W. Meyer and David P. Baker; value: Bridging the gap between research and practice / Maureen T. Hallinan; value: Potential pitfalls of systemic reform: early lessons from detracking research / Amy Stuart Wells and Jeannie Oakes.