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Teachers and Crisis: Urban School Reform and Teachers' Work Culture

Teachers and Crisis: Urban School Reform and Teachers' Work Culture

Paperback

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Urban Education

General Education

ISBN10: 1138578509
ISBN13: 9781138578500
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 27 2019
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

First published in 1992, this book moves beyond the rhetoric surrounding the basic skills debate by providing a thorough yet critical examination of urban education, urban school reform, and teachers' work culture. Beginning with a sparkling theoretical discussion of the problems and pitfalls of back-to-basics reform efforts, author Dennis Carlson argues persuasively that the movement's exclusive emphasis on functional literacy skills rather than higher-order thinking assures that students will remain on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. He then proceeds with an empirical study of two urban high school districts in which he documents the latent effects of back-to-basics on teachers' work lives as well as staff-administration clashes over efforts to implement restructuring programmes.

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