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Investing in U.S. schools : directions for educational policy
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Investing in U.S. schools : directions for educational policy

Author: Bruce Anthony Jones; Kathryn M Borman
Publisher: Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., ©1994.
Series: Social and policy issues in education
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bruce Anthony Jones; Kathryn M Borman
ISBN: 0893919497 9780893919498 0893919500 9780893919504
OCLC Number: 28256370
Description: xiv, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Augustus F. Hawkins -- 1. Schools in the "Community" and Urban Context: Incorporating Collaboration and Empowerment / Bruce Anthony Jones -- 2. Commitment to Community / Zakia McKinney -- 3. Creating Shared Visions: The Process of Community Deliberation / Louis Castenell and Sally B. Kilgore -- 4. Facilitating the Transition from School to Work / John C. Weidman -- 5. Incentives for Teachers: Mixing the Intrinsic with the Financial / William A. Firestone -- 6. Teacher Burnout in the Face of Reform: Some Caveats in Breaking the Mold / Anthony Gary Dworkin and Merric Lee Townsend -- 7. Today Kentucky, Tomorrow America? Linking the Foxfire Philosophy of Teaching to Contemporary American School Reform / Alan J. De Young -- 8. Edu-Culture: An Innovative Strategy for Promoting Identity and Scholarship in Young African-American Males / Kenneth L. Ghee -- 9. Choice and Urban School Reform / Charles Glenn.
Series Title: Social and policy issues in education
Other Titles: Investing in US schools., Investing in United States schools.
Responsibility: edited by Bruce Anthony Jones and Kathryn M. Borman ; foreword by Augustus F. Hawkins.

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