Bücher von 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.