Editors:
Kathryn M. Borman, University of Cincinnati; Piyush Swami, University of
Cincinnati; and Lonnie D. Wagstaff, University of
Texas-Austin
As America moves into the twenty-first century, educational policy
makers must face many complex issues. Questions of equity, choice,
quality, and democracy need to be resolved if the public school system is
to effectively prepare a diverse student population for the future in a
socially and technologically complicated society. This volume explores
critical aspects of this debate by focusing on two topics; understanding
social and policy issues, and initiating political action to confront and
solve them. Contributors analyze the current system and suggest new
approaches for evaluating schools and empowering educators; look at the
political side of educational policy decisions; examine the
anthropological background of learning in various cultures; review
selected studies of American secondary schools; explore language within
school culture and how it reflects and shapes human experience; address
methodological problems of evaluating what teachers "do;" and focus on
literacy learning and higher education.
