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Author: Richard Arum
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1452205426
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This comprehensive reader in the sociology of education examines important topics and exposes students to examples of sociological research on schools.

Author: Stuart S. Yeh
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137587679
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This book examines the cause of the student achievement gap, suggesting that the prevailing emphasis on socioeconomic factors, sociocultural influences, and teacher quality is misplaced.

Author: Linda M. McNeil
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135209286
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Because the organization of the classroom and the school provide the framework for teaching and learning, this important volume reviews research that focuses on specific issues including: achievement effects of alternative school and ...

Author: Barbara Benham Tye
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ISBN: 9780807739341
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Tye identifies what she terms "deep structure" in the educational society, elements of life that are continually and consistently present in a school environment.

Author: R. Murray Thomas
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483148556
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Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with a general outlook on the colonization and schooling in Oceania.

Author: Lisa M. Nunn
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813563631
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With its insights into the transmission of ideas of success from society to school to student, this provocative work should prompt a reevaluation of the culture of secondary education.

Author: Rick Posner
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591810841
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This book describes how a progressive public school has transformed the lives of its alumni. It's the story of an extended family of students, staff and parents who have formed their own community of learners over the course of 38 years.

Author: Kimberly A. Goyette
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520285107
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"Education in America introduces readers to social inequality in education in the U.S. The book highlights findings from current, rigorous sociological research, covering patterns and trends in inequality in education by socioeconomic ...

Author: John E. Chubb
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815714095
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Argues that our nation's schools need autonomy to be effective and that institutional reform is necessary

Author: Ashley Rogers Berner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137502261
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This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created.