Changing Classes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521642347)

Changing Classes tells the story of Willow Run, a small, poor, ethnically-mixed town in Michigan's rust belt, a community in turmoil over the announced closing of a nearby auto assembly plant. As teachers and administrators began to find ways to make schooling more relevant to working-class children, two large-scale school reform initiatives swept into town: the Governor's "market-place" reforms and the National Science Foundation's "state systemic initiative." Against the backdrop of a post-fordist economy, the author shows complex linkages at work as society structures the development of children to adulthood.

Author: Martin Packer
ISBN-10: 0521642345
ISBN-13: 9780521642347
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2000
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d