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Class Struggle
Jay Mathews
其他書名
What's Wrong (and Right) with America's Best Public High Schools
出版Times Books, 1998
主題Current Events / AmericanEducation / Schools / Levels / SecondaryEducation / Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsEducation / Schools / Types / PublicPolitical Science / American Government / GeneralSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN08129244799780812924473
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Mj0mAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Following the groundbreaking work of Jonathan Kozol, Mathews examines what happens when the ambitions of wealthy parents who consider their kids Ivy League-bound from birth clash with the academic needs of a more diverse population. He reveals how conflicts among students, parents, faculty, administrators, and taxpayers can prevent even the most well-funded and well-staffed public schools from fulfilling their academic promise. In Class Struggle, Mathews provides an unprecedented ranking of the nation's public high schools - a ranking based on real academic opportunities, not reputation. And he shows what all schools should be doing to maximize learning for the widest possible range of students, not just those with the richest and most aggressive parents. Mathews's book takes as its primary case study the classrooms and hallways of Mamaroneck High School in Westchester County, New York, where battles rage over money, curriculum, faculty tenure, and ability grouping. We follow the progress of a diverse group of students through three years of school, and we sit in on confrontational meetings among teachers, school officials, community taxpayers, and organized, agenda-driven parents, all of whom have different ideas of what the school should be doing with all that money.