Title: Changing classes
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Case studies, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Education, Economic aspects of Educational change, Education, Education and state, Educational change, Willow Run Community Schools (Willow Run, Mich.), Education, economic aspects
Places: United States
LC classification: LC66 .P23 2001