Changing classes
Subtitle: school reform and the new economy
By: Marin Packer
Series: Learning in doing :Social, cognitive, and computational perpectives; Learning in doing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Willow Run Community Schools (Willow Run, Mich.); Education -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Case studies; Education and state -- United States -- Case studies; Educational change -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "Changing Classes tells the story of a small, poor, ethnically mixed school district in Michigan's rust belt, a community in turmoil over the announced closing of a nearby auto assembly plant. As teachers and administrators began to find ways to make schooling more relevant to working-class children, two large-scale school reform initiatives swept into town: the governor's "marketplace" reforms and the National Science Foundation's "State Systemic Initiative." All this is set against the backdrop of the transformation to a global, post-Fordist economy. The result is an account of the complex linkages at work as society structures the development of children to adulthood."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index