Schools and Society

  • Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education
    By Jeanne H. Ballantine, Jenny M. Stuber, Joan Z. Spade

    The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and ...

  • Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education
    By Jeanne H. Ballantine, Jenny M. Stuber, Joan Z. Spade

    This comprehensive, integrated overview of the sociology of education includes original readings and article excerpts by leaders in the field, as well as theory, methods and current issues.

  • Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education
    By Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade

    Undergraduate students of the sociology of education, education and society and education studies.

  • Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education
    By Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade

    policies can improve schools and help reduce the achievement gap in the areas covered by the law under which NCLB operates. ... No Child Left Behind and the transformation of federal education policy, 1965–2005.

  • Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education
    By Jeanne H. Ballantine, Jenny M. Stuber, Joan Z. Spade

    The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and ...

  • Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education
    By Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade

    We would not have automobiles, planes, missiles, space stations, computers, the Internet, and many of our modern conveniences without the institutionalization of science and without scientific application (technology).

  • Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education
    By Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade

    This collection provides a comprehensive approach to the discipline, as it includes all of the significant theories and issues of Sociology of Education. Yet, the book has a central focus...