ABSTRACT

Suggestions are constantly being made, both in the popular media and academic literature, about the kinds of changes schools should make. The research in this text shows that schools are primarily inward-looking organizations, and would benefit from better ways of understanding the changes surrounding them and the pressures on them. This text offers theoretical discussion of the ideas around the topic and a set of suggestions for thinking about them.

chapter 1|14 pages

Social Change and Organizational Response

chapter 3|16 pages

School Systems and the Changes They Face

chapter 4|16 pages

Learning About the Changing World

chapter 6|19 pages

The Impact of a Changing Labor Market

chapter 8|19 pages

The Impact of Child Poverty

chapter 9|13 pages

Changing Families

chapter 10|14 pages

Changing Politics and the Politics of Change