Redefining "Good" Schools: Quality and Equity in Education. Position Paper #1.

Autor/in	Obiakor, Festus E.
Titel	Redefining "Good" Schools: Quality and Equity in Education. Position Paper #1.
Quelle	(2000), (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Educational Quality; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Public Schools; Racial Differences; School Culture; Socioeconomic Influences; Teaching Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Rassenunterschied; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Lehrmodell
Abstract	The "good" school phenomenon has led to the deceptive self-aggrandizement of students, parents, teachers, and administrators. Good schools have been poorly defined to exclude equity, and this diminishes their role in the uplift of society's culture. Schools have been viewed as good even when they fail to meet cultural, linguistic, racial, and socioeconomic needs of students. This trend must be reversed if general and special educators are to respond to current demographic changes. This paper discusses the qualities of a "good" school and uses cases to describe the good-school phenomenon. Many of these schools cannot survive external scrutiny when evaluated from multidimensional perspectives. Schools are needed to manifest human realities in a practical way, and they must be places where teachers, principals, and administrators are prepared to move beyond tradition to expose all students to life's realities. (Contains 30 references.) (DFR)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01