Allan C Ornstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 385301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan C Ornstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ornstein |
| SIGNATURE | ORNSTEIN A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wealth, Legacy and College Admission
Social Justice: History, Purpose and Meaning
Introduction: Reframing the Inequality Debate toward Opportunity and Mobility
The Search for Talent
St Century Excellence in Education: Introduction
Achievement Gaps in Education
Class Counts: An Overview and Response to Mr. Cooper's Review
On Virgil Clift
Storytelling has become an acceptable means of knowing and thinking, and it is underscored by a host of fashionable articles and books on teaching. But as a middle-aged technocrat, I find it difficult to write in story or narrative form. My way of conveying information is to report, analyze, and evaluate from a distance, in clinical and cold form, without passion or emotion. I deal in quantifiable constructs: largegroup statistics, objective find…
Synthesis of Research: Teaching Whole‐Group Classrooms
(1995). Synthesis of Research: Teaching Whole‐Group Classrooms. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 70, Teacher Effectiveness: A Look at What Works, pp. 104-116
Beyond effective teaching
For more than the last 50 years, the method of conducting research on teaching involved an attempt to systematize it into discrete categories such as teacher styles, behaviors, characteristics, competencies, methods, and so forth, and to measure it with teacher observations, rating scales, questionnaires, checklists, and/or personality inventories. About 20 years ago the method was slightly modified: the categories were converted into processes, …
The textbook‐driven curriculum
Textbooks have come to drive the curriculum, and one might wonder why so little attention is given to the position of the textbook in the process of curriculum making. Reliance on the textbook (as well as its companion, the workbook) is consistent with the stress on written words as the main medium of education, as well as the way many teachers themselves were educated. Dependence on the textbook is also linked to the time when a majority of teac…
Curriculum trends revisited
(1994). Curriculum trends revisited. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 69, Our Evolving Curriculum, Part II, pp. 4-20
This issue: Financing education
School finance and the condition of schools
Asbestos Since the 1980s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered government and Allan C. Ornstein is professor of education at Loyola University. commercial property owners to clean up asbestosladen buildings that have been housing people at work and in school for the last 25 to 50 years. Estimated costs to clean up these buildings are hard to come by, although one estimate was $100 billion for government and commercial buildi…
School consolidation vs. decentralization: Trends, issues, and questions
School Effectiveness and National Reform
Problems facing school superintendents and school board presidents of large school districts
Video Technology and the Urban Curriculum
School size and effectiveness: Policy implications
Enrollment trends in big‐city schools
The current crisis in urban schools is symptomatic of a general demographic trend in urban life. The problem is the large build-up of minority students-especially black and Hispanic, the majority of whom are educationally disabled because of family structure and welfare dependency-in city schools and the continuing exodus of white middle-class families from the city. Nationwide, minority enrollments increased from 19.8% in 1966 to 24% in 1976 to …
Research on classroom and school effectiveness and its implications for improving big city schools
Centralization and Decentralization of Large Public School Districts
Theoretical Issues Related to Teaching
Private and Public School Comparisons: Size, Organization, and Effectiveness
Curriculum Innovation and Implementation
Social Class, Race, and School Achievement: Problems and Prospects
Ornstein and Levine provide documen tation regarding the relationship be tween the socioeconomics of students' lives and their subsequent capacity to perform effectively in school contexts. Research aimed at understanding and prescribing methods of overcoming the problems of urban low achieving stu dents is discussed in the form of class room and extra-classroom realities. The authors then suggest selected re form measures for ameliorating those …
Urban Demographics for the 1980s: Educational Implications
Enrollment trends in big‐city schools
The current crisis in urban schools is symptomatic of a general demographic trend in urban life. The problem is the large build-up of minority students-especially black and Hispanic, the majority of whom are educationally disabled because of family structure and welfare dependency-in city schools and the continuing exodus of white middle-class families from the city. Nationwide, minority enrollments increased from 19.8% in 1966 to 24% in 1976 to …
Private and Public School Comparisons: Size, Organization, and Effectiveness
The Changing Status of the Teaching Profession
Several innovations will affect and make more nearly professional the role of the teacher
Administrative decentralization and community policy: Review and outlook
Recent Historical Perspectives for Educating the Disadvantaged
Teacher Accountability: Trends and Policies
Teacher Effectiveness Research: Some Ideas and Issues
Research on Teaching: Issues and Trends
The research on teaching is becoming an important part of the teacher educa tion curriculum. Ornstein identifies selected findings from the research liter ature and discusses some of the prob lems facing educators as they attempt to formulate generalizations based on these findings to guide teaching prac tice. The author concludes the article with a list of problem areas that teacher educators need to consider if they are to develop preparation e…
Wealth, Legacy and College Admission
Social Justice: History, Purpose and Meaning
Achievement Gaps in Education
Beyond effective teaching
For more than the last 50 years, the method of conducting research on teaching involved an attempt to systematize it into discrete categories such as teacher styles, behaviors, characteristics, competencies, methods, and so forth, and to measure it with teacher observations, rating scales, questionnaires, checklists, and/or personality inventories. About 20 years ago the method was slightly modified: the categories were converted into processes, …
The textbook‐driven curriculum
Textbooks have come to drive the curriculum, and one might wonder why so little attention is given to the position of the textbook in the process of curriculum making. Reliance on the textbook (as well as its companion, the workbook) is consistent with the stress on written words as the main medium of education, as well as the way many teachers themselves were educated. Dependence on the textbook is also linked to the time when a majority of teac…
School finance and the condition of schools
Asbestos Since the 1980s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered government and Allan C. Ornstein is professor of education at Loyola University. commercial property owners to clean up asbestosladen buildings that have been housing people at work and in school for the last 25 to 50 years. Estimated costs to clean up these buildings are hard to come by, although one estimate was $100 billion for government and commercial buildi…
School Effectiveness and National Reform
Video Technology and the Urban Curriculum
School size and effectiveness: Policy implications
Research on classroom and school effectiveness and its implications for improving big city schools
Centralization and Decentralization of Large Public School Districts
Research on Teaching: Measurements and Methods
Teacher Effectiveness: Current Research and Issues
Student disruptions and student rights: An overview
Can we define a good teacher
(1976). Can we define a good teacher? Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 201-207
Teacher training for the “difficult” school
Blackboard jungle, firmly rooted in the low socio-economic areas, has already reached a stage so acute that it obtrudes in every large city across the country. While every indication leads us to expect a worsening trend, a great number of teachers remain puzzled and harassed, unable to understand or deal with their students. The teachers, however, have adopted the view that the students are to blame for this developing crisis. The idea they thems…
Program Revision for Culturally Disadvantaged Children
While the United States grows steadily richer, the number of poor also grows. Many of the poor are children, the children of migrant workers, of dishwashers and janitors, of unemployed and unemployable, and of unwed mothers. They grow up in an atmosphere of slums, disease, dope, delinquency, and crime. They can be seen on street corners talking, moving, never going anywhere. They drift aimlessly from block to block, looking for something to do, s…
Techniques and Fundamentals for Teaching the Disadvantaged
We often read why disadvantaged children do not learn; we are familiar with the -immense dimension of their problems. What we do not often read is how we should teach these children so that they will learn, so that they will get decent jobs, so that they will break their chains of deprivation. This paper will examine two major areas related to teaching the disadvantaged child; that is, discipline and classroom management and motivation and studen…
Theory Practices for Teaching Disadvantaged Youth
Teaching the Disadvantaged Child
Recent Historical Perspectives for Educating the Disadvantaged
The Need for Research on Teaching the Disadvantaged
Attitudes (expectations and perceptions) and values affect behavior (Allport, 1958; Clark, 1965; Goff, 1954; Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1968b), and what we read about the teachers of the disadvantaged seems overwhelmingly negative. The literature generally views the middle-class teacher in relation to lowerclass and disadvantaged children.2 The results seem to coincide: Becker (1952), Cohen (1955), Davis (1948), Friedenberg (1962), Havighurst, Bowma…
Some Possible Hazards Inherent in Evaluating Teacher Education Programs
A Dissenting View on Accountability
Teachers' Perceptions of Decision Making Roles and Responsibilities in Defining Accountability
Most discussions of educational accountability employ a product management model for defining the variables associated with accountability and explicating the relationships among the variables. Such.a model focuses on a product delivery system. The product is the achievement level of the learner measured subsequent to a given period of exposure to formal education. The criteria for evaluating the product are cost and efficiency. The accountable p…
On the process and product of accountability
As patriotism, motherhood, and the family are being dislodged from their lofty perch, educational trend setters have raised a number of new idols as possible replacements. Accountability is one of these. Like motherhood, it is hard to take a stand against accountability; and like patriotism, accountability takes on a multitude of meanings determined by the contextual setting and the role assigned to the actors. As parents, we want the school pers…
The Politics and Limits of Research
The Cost of Federal Funding: Who Benefits
The limitations of research: A viewpoint
The limitations of research: A viewpoint
Research report policy implications of school superintendents' attitudes toward community advisement and control
The study examined superintendents' attitudes toward community involvement at advisory and control levels in relation to current demands for community input into school management issues. Attitudes of superintendents in school systems of 15 000 or larger throughout the United States and Puerto Rico were obtained on a 40-item instrument. Analyses of data indicated varying degrees of difference between attitudes on community advisement and control …
Can we define a good teacher
(1976). Can we define a good teacher? Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 201-207
Educational Poverty in the Midst of Educational Abundance: Status and Policy Implications of Teacher Supply/Demand
social development. An indication of this, he suggested, was the reestablishment of a science advisory office to the president, and the congressional establishment of an office of technical assessment. Impediments to a rational policy-setting mechanism, however, are reconciling issues of policy groups in the executive and legislative branches, and the continuing tendency of scientists to follow the example of generals who always fight last year's…
Quality, not quotas
Policy Issues in Education
Education of the Spanish-Speaking Urban Child
Educational financing and government spending
1978). Educational financing and government spending. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 17, The Schools and The Courts, pp. 341-347
Curricular innovations and trends: Recent past, present, and future
The search for new programs and methods of instruction continues. The era of the 1950s and 1960s saw a large, sustained effort to reform curriculum and instruction. Many educators thought this era would transform the schools. These twenty years, states Anderson (1964), would be considered, one of the major turning points in American public education (p. 127). Similarly, the New York State Commissioner of Education (1960) wrote: Never before have …
Adolescent and youth culture: From activity to tranquility
Strategies for Reforming Metropolitan Schools
Seventeen years after Coleman there is new information and strategy for the improvement of the performance of city schools
Sociology (51 works) · Psychology (49 works) · Pedagogy (39 works) · Mathematics education (37 works) · Political science (36 works) · Economics (20 works) · Economic growth (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Education Systems and Policy (13 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (13 works)