Elizabeth Useem
Biographic Data
| ID | 124611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Useem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Useem |
| SIGNATURE | USEEM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology, Boston State College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Big City Superintendent as Powerful CEO
This case study of the leadership of Paul Vallas as CEO of the Philadelphia city schools from 2002–2007 demonstrates that No Child Left Behind has enhanced the formal authority of big city district chiefs even though they are constrained by its accountability mandates and by the pressures from a growing number of influential stakeholder groups. In Vallas's case, he was also able to take advantage of powers conferred on him and the district's Scho…
Staying after School
Introduction At-Risk Students, Schools, and Compensatory Education Programs OSRP: Opportunity or Failure? A Conservative Ideology of Hope Staff Perceptions Contradictory Relationships with Parents Mixed Perceptions of the Schools Another Lost Opportunity Appendix: Methods References Index
The Impact of School Choice and Community
A Place at the Table
Public education funds have emerged as durable players in urban school reform efforts. These nonprofit public/private partnerships, linked by the Public Education Fund Network in Washington, D.C., are active in more than 60 U.S. cities. They have moved beyond their initial support programs of minigrants to teachers, adopt-a-school efforts, and public relations work to whole-school change initiatives and direct involvement in critical policy quest…
Designing Coherent Education Policy
Getting on the Fast Track in Mathematics
This study examines the ways in which school-level policies and procedures influence students' probabilities of being placed in the accelerated track in mathematics in the middle school and senior high years. Data collected from interviews with school administrators in 26 school districts show that substantial variations exist among districts in students' opportunities to be placed in this track. Differences in district parental education levels …
Middle Schools and Math Groups
Interviews with a random sample of 86 mothers in two suburban communities revealed that the high correlation between parents' education levels and their children's placement in the mathematics tracking system as they enter middle and junior high school can be explained, in part, by the propensity of college-educated parents to be knowledgeable about their children's placement, to be integrated into school affairs and parental information networks…
Student Selection Into Course Sequences in Mathematics
This research assesses the ways in which parental involvement in children's assignment to mathematics courses in the middle and secondary grades is conditioned by the institutional arrangements and policies of school systems. The findings are drawn from interviews with 52 administrators in 26 school districts in the Boston area as well as from interviews with teachers and mothers of middle school students in two of these districts. The data show …
Jocks and Burnouts
Dr. Eckert shows how the school's institutional environment fosters the formation of opposed class cultures in the student population, which in turn serve as a social tracking system
Low Tech Education in a High Tech World
Having run away because he is bored with school, a young Egyptian finds himself involved with a gang of tomb robbers
Low Tech Education in a High Tech World
Law and the Shaping of Public Education
The Struggle for the American Curriculum
The Control Revolution
Desegregation in Northern Cities
The Education Establishment
Correlates of White Students' Attitudes toward a Voluntary Busing Program
Middle Schools and Math Groups
Interviews with a random sample of 86 mothers in two suburban communities revealed that the high correlation between parents' education levels and their children's placement in the mathematics tracking system as they enter middle and junior high school can be explained, in part, by the propensity of college-educated parents to be knowledgeable about their children's placement, to be integrated into school affairs and parental information networks…
Student Selection Into Course Sequences in Mathematics
This research assesses the ways in which parental involvement in children's assignment to mathematics courses in the middle and secondary grades is conditioned by the institutional arrangements and policies of school systems. The findings are drawn from interviews with 52 administrators in 26 school districts in the Boston area as well as from interviews with teachers and mothers of middle school students in two of these districts. The data show …
Getting on the Fast Track in Mathematics
This study examines the ways in which school-level policies and procedures influence students' probabilities of being placed in the accelerated track in mathematics in the middle school and senior high years. Data collected from interviews with school administrators in 26 school districts show that substantial variations exist among districts in students' opportunities to be placed in this track. Differences in district parental education levels …
Big City Superintendent as Powerful CEO
This case study of the leadership of Paul Vallas as CEO of the Philadelphia city schools from 2002–2007 demonstrates that No Child Left Behind has enhanced the formal authority of big city district chiefs even though they are constrained by its accountability mandates and by the pressures from a growing number of influential stakeholder groups. In Vallas's case, he was also able to take advantage of powers conferred on him and the district's Scho…
The Education Establishment
Correlates of White Students' Attitudes toward a Voluntary Busing Program
Desegregation in Northern Cities
The Struggle for the American Curriculum
The Control Revolution
Low Tech Education in a High Tech World
Having run away because he is bored with school, a young Egyptian finds himself involved with a gang of tomb robbers
Low Tech Education in a High Tech World
Law and the Shaping of Public Education
Jocks and Burnouts
Dr. Eckert shows how the school's institutional environment fosters the formation of opposed class cultures in the student population, which in turn serve as a social tracking system
Student Selection Into Course Sequences in Mathematics
This research assesses the ways in which parental involvement in children's assignment to mathematics courses in the middle and secondary grades is conditioned by the institutional arrangements and policies of school systems. The findings are drawn from interviews with 52 administrators in 26 school districts in the Boston area as well as from interviews with teachers and mothers of middle school students in two of these districts. The data show …
Getting on the Fast Track in Mathematics
This study examines the ways in which school-level policies and procedures influence students' probabilities of being placed in the accelerated track in mathematics in the middle school and senior high years. Data collected from interviews with school administrators in 26 school districts show that substantial variations exist among districts in students' opportunities to be placed in this track. Differences in district parental education levels …
Middle Schools and Math Groups
Interviews with a random sample of 86 mothers in two suburban communities revealed that the high correlation between parents' education levels and their children's placement in the mathematics tracking system as they enter middle and junior high school can be explained, in part, by the propensity of college-educated parents to be knowledgeable about their children's placement, to be integrated into school affairs and parental information networks…
Designing Coherent Education Policy
A Place at the Table
Public education funds have emerged as durable players in urban school reform efforts. These nonprofit public/private partnerships, linked by the Public Education Fund Network in Washington, D.C., are active in more than 60 U.S. cities. They have moved beyond their initial support programs of minigrants to teachers, adopt-a-school efforts, and public relations work to whole-school change initiatives and direct involvement in critical policy quest…
The Impact of School Choice and Community
Staying after School
Introduction At-Risk Students, Schools, and Compensatory Education Programs OSRP: Opportunity or Failure? A Conservative Ideology of Hope Staff Perceptions Contradictory Relationships with Parents Mixed Perceptions of the Schools Another Lost Opportunity Appendix: Methods References Index
Big City Superintendent as Powerful CEO
This case study of the leadership of Paul Vallas as CEO of the Philadelphia city schools from 2002–2007 demonstrates that No Child Left Behind has enhanced the formal authority of big city district chiefs even though they are constrained by its accountability mandates and by the pressures from a growing number of influential stakeholder groups. In Vallas's case, he was also able to take advantage of powers conferred on him and the district's Scho…
Political science (12 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works)