Access to knowledge : the continuing agenda for our nation's schools /

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...

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Other Authors: Goodlad, John I., Keating, Pamela.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : College Entrance Examination Board, 1994.
Edition:Rev. ed.
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245 0 0 |a Access to knowledge :  |b the continuing agenda for our nation's schools /  |c John I. Goodlad and Pamela Keating, editors ; with a foreword by Donald M. Stewart. 
250 |a Rev. ed. 
260 |a New York :  |b College Entrance Examination Board,  |c 1994. 
300 |a ix, 355 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Common schools for the common weal: reconciling self-interest with the common good / John I. Goodlad -- Home, school, and academic learning / James P. Comer -- Demographics of disadvantage: intensity of childhood poverty and its relationship to educational achievement / Martin E. Orland -- Overcoming racial barriers to equal access / John U. Ogbu -- Striving for sex equity in schools / Pamela Keating -- Being at-risk in school / Virginia Richardson and Patricia Colfer -- Last things first: realizing equality by improving conditions for marginal students / Robert L. Sinclair and Ward J. 
505 0 |a Tracking and ability grouping: a structural barrier to access and achievement / Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton -- School renewal: taking responibility for providing an education of value / Suzanne Soo Hoo -- Enhancing access to knowledge through school and district organization / Carol Wilson and Lance Wright -- Teacher quality and equality / Linda Darling-Hammond with Joslyn Green -- Educators for a truly democratic system of schooling / Charles M. Hodge -- Political limits to an education of value: the role of the state / Jose A. Cardenas -- The continuing agenda -- Ability grouping: on the wrong track / Robert E. Slavin and Jomillis H. Braddock III -- Learning to teach an untracked class / Joan Kernan Cone -- Closing the gender gap: what's behind the differences in test scores, what can be done about it / Susan H. Murphy -- Gender equity in the classroom / Myra Sadker ... [et al.] -- Retrospect and prospect / John I. Goodlad. 
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