Bøger af Bruce Biddle

This text compares the usefulness and relevance of research knowledge among: public, parochial and independent schools; primary and secondary education; and in two different national contexts - a US example of a decentralized system and an Australian example of a centralized system.

An overview of the effects of poverty and social class upon and within American schools. Chapters act as progress reports for a rapidly developing subfield of effort concerned with poverty, other forms of disadvantage, and education.

"The Manufactured Crisis debunks the myths that test scores in America's schools are falling, that illiteracy is rising, and that better funding has no benefit. It shares the good news about public ed"