The Urban School: A Factory for Failure - Hardcover

Ray C. Rist

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262180642 ISBN 13: 9780262180641

Publisher: MIT Press, 1973

Synopsis

"One way to begin the development of a more systematic understanding of what events in the classroom do to students is to bring to bear the skills of participant-observation field work....

"In this book, Ray Rist uses these skills to make us understand the first few years of school experience of one group of children. He shows us in fine-grained detail how teachers shape and direct some of the children toward academic success and others toward failure. Because most of these children are poor and black, and because their teachers, though black themselves, nevertheless expect most of their charges to do poorly, the principal training that goes on in the classroom seems to be training for a life of failure rather than success...."

—From the Foreword by Lee Rainwater

About this title

About the Author

Ray C. Rist was a senior evaluation officer in the World Bank for many years. He has served as university professor at Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, and George Washington University. In addition, he is the editor for Transaction’s Comparative Policy Evaluation series.

Review

"The Urban School is a timely and much needed wake-up call to a educational policy and contemporary social problem that urgently needs to be addressed across the country and in every urban school district."

—The Bookwatch

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262180642
• ISBN 13: 9780262180641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 265