Telling tales over time : calendars, clocks, and school effectiveness / / Joel Weiss and Robert S. Brown.

How do calendars and clocks influence considerations of school effectiveness? From the creation of compulsory education to the future of virtual schooling, Weiss and Brown trace two centuries of school practices, policies and research linking the concept of time with ‘opportunity to learn’. School c...

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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Language:English
Series:Other Books
Physical Description:1 online resource (191 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Time as Storyline
  • Telling Tales Over Time
  • Absenteeism
  • The Current Absenteeism Scene
  • Time Structures and the Canons of Testing
  • Inequities and Effectiveness
  • The Role of Virtual Learning Environments in Time and Spatial Structuring
  • The Challenge of Changing Curriculum Stories Over Time
  • Author Biographies.