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  • Series: Our Schools
  • Imprint: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
  • Publication Date: 1 January 1992
  • Copyright Year: 1992
  • ISBN: 9780921908111
  • Page Count: 142
  • Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"

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Stacking the Deck

The Streaming of Working-Class Kids in Ontario Schools

by Bruce Curtis, Harry Smaller, and D. W. Livingstone

Three experienced educators offer an Ontario-based case study of the results of streaming in classrooms on the children of working-class parents.
The authors of this study maintain that programs that sort students into academic and vocational "streams" abuse working-class children, especially those from poor families.
These three experienced educators offer an Ontario-based case study of the results of streaming in classrooms on the children of working-class parents. Their conclusions -- backed by a detailed analysis of the impact of streaming -- suggest the need for change in order to ensure that quality education is available to all students.
Stacking the Deck explores the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that students are streamed, and suggests practical steps to make schools more democratic.
An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

About the Authors

Bruce Curtis

BRUCE CURTIS is Professor of Sociology at Carleton University.

Harry Smaller

HARRY SMALLER has been an inner-city teacher in Toronto for many years and now teaches at York University.

D. W. Livingstone

D.W. LIVINGSTONE is Professor of Sociology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Subjects (BISAC)

EDUCATION / Counseling / Academic Development, EDUCATION / Counseling / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General

Subjects

Social Sciences: Education

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