Access to Knowledge: The Continuing Agenda for Our Nation's Schools - Softcover

 
9780874475029: Access to Knowledge: The Continuing Agenda for Our Nation's Schools
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0874475023 ISBN 13: 9780874475029
Publisher: College Board

Synopsis

This ambitious collection of essays by prominent educators, scholars, researchers, and reformers rethinks the problem of failure in our schools and describes the various curricular and structural factors that actually create barriers blocking access to an equal and quality education for all students.
The authors examine such vital issues as at-risk and marginal students; striving for gender equity; assessment; tracking; school renewal; school and district organization and the role of state government.

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Review

"The tasks this book sets out to accomplish are daunting, but the vision it portrays is exciting and full of hope...This book...should be read by everyone." (Journal of College Admission). "The need for better schools is once again a national priority, and there is a new vision in school reform. The papers collected in Access to Knowled ge will stimulate conversation about restructuring of our nation's schools and the responsibility of each school district to give its students equitable access to knowledge." -- The School Administrator

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Publisher
College Board
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0874475023
ISBN 13 
9780874475029
Binding
Paperback
Editor
Goodlad John I., Keating Pamela