Listening to Urban Kids
(January 2001)
School Reform and the Teachers They Want Bruce L. Wilson - Author Dick Corbett - Author
Independent researchers interview urban middle school students to get their impressions of the teachers that help them to succeed in schools.
According to the many student voices in this book, urban middle school students want teachers who "stay on them" to complete their work, maintain orderly classrooms, give them the extra help they need to succeed, explain their work clearly, draw on a variety of teaching strategi...(Read More)
Change and Effectiveness in Schools
(August 1988)
A Cultural Perspective Gretchen B. Rossman - Editor Dick Corbett - Editor William A. Firestone - Editor
The quest for more effective schools has perhaps never been more challenging than it is today. Here, the authors consider and investigate that challenge from the cultural perspective.
Rossman, Corbett, and Firestone examined three high schools in the midst of change. Teachers and administrators consented to grant the authors a year in each of their respective settings in order to understand better their unique system of norms, beliefs, and v...(Read More)
