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A geology of school reform : the successive restructurings of a school district / Liane Brouillette.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, restructuring and school changePublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585042691
  • 9780585042695
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Geology of school reform.DDC classification:
  • 371.2/00973 20
LOC classification:
  • LB2806.35 .B76 1996eb
Online resources: Summary: Annotation An archeological study of one school district describing its successive waves of school reform through the eyes of administrators, teachers, community leaders, and parents whose contributions both hindered and advanced changes. The study follows the Cottonwood School District (all names are fictitious) from its two rural schoolhouses in the early 1950s, through the experimental 1960s, the "back to basics" 1970s, the "whole education" approaches of the 1980s, and into the current budgetary crisis of the 1990s. The examination is a microcosm look at American education and a community's competing values. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index.

Print version record.

Annotation An archeological study of one school district describing its successive waves of school reform through the eyes of administrators, teachers, community leaders, and parents whose contributions both hindered and advanced changes. The study follows the Cottonwood School District (all names are fictitious) from its two rural schoolhouses in the early 1950s, through the experimental 1960s, the "back to basics" 1970s, the "whole education" approaches of the 1980s, and into the current budgetary crisis of the 1990s. The examination is a microcosm look at American education and a community's competing values. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

English.

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