Stacking the Deck
The Streaming of Working-Class Kids in Ontario Schools
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- General, General, Guidance & Orientation
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921908111
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
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 is Professor of Sociology at Carleton University.
HARRY SMALLER has been an inner-city teacher in Toronto for many years and now teaches at York University.
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