Elizabeth L Useem
Biographic Data
| ID | 4136934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth L Useem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth L |
| FAMILY NAME | Useem |
| SIGNATURE | USEEM E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Philadelphia Public Education Fund |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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
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
Desegregation in Northern Cities
The Education Establishment
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 …
The Education Establishment
Desegregation in Northern Cities
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
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…
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
Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (4 works) · School Choice and Performance (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)