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How Schools Work (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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How Schools Work (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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As budgets tighten for school districts, a sound understanding of
just how teaching and administration translate into student
learning becomes increasingly important. Rebecca Barr, a researcher
of classroom instruction and reading skill development, and Robert
Dreeben, a sociologist of education who analyzes the structure of
organizations, combine their expertise to explore the social
organization of schools and classrooms, the division of labor, and
the allocation of key resources.
Viewing schools as part of a social organization with a hierarchy
of levels--district, school, classroom, instructional group, and
students--avoids the common pitfalls of lumping together any and
all possible influences on student learning without regard to the
actual processes of the classroom. Barr and Dreeben systematically
explain how instructional groups originate, form, and change over
time. Focusing on first grade reading instruction, their study
shows that individual reading aptitude actually has little direct
relation to group reading achievement and virtually none to the
coverage of reading materials once the mean aptitude of groups is
taken into consideration. Individual aptitude, they argue, is
rather the basis on which teachers form reading groups that are
given different instructional treatment. It is these differences in
group treatment, they contend, that explain substantial differences
in learning curricular material.
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