Schooling the rustbelt kids : making the difference in changing times / Pat Thomson.

Thomson argues that current outcomes-based and standardised policies for disadvantaged schools are not effective. Rather schools need the flexibility to develop strategies that suit their specific situation.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Thomson, Pat, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2002.
Series:Studies in education (St. Leonards, N.S.W.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Series editor's foreword
  • First words
  • Vicki and Thanh
  • The city
  • Photo essay
  • Place of trouble/troubled places
  • Bringing particularity into site
  • Rhetoric and resources
  • Staffing matters
  • The policy terrain
  • Principal acts/acts of principle
  • Discourses of equity
  • Doing justice
  • Last words.