The Contexts of teaching in secondary schools  teachers' realities 
edited by Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Joan E. Talbert, and Nina Bascia. 
 - New York  Teachers College Press, Columbia University  c1990. 
 - ix, 285 p.  ill.  23 cm. 
 - Professional development and practice series .
<br/><br/> Based on papers commissioned by Stanford University's Center for Research on the Context of Secondary School Teachers and Teaching, presented at a planning meeting in February of 1988. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Contexts in question : the secondary school workplace -- Social and community values and the quality of teachers' work life -- How social class differences shape teachers' work -- Conditions of teachers' work in independent schools -- Schoolwork : perspectives on workplace reform in public schools -- Primacy and potential of high school departments --Conditions of professional development in secondary schools -- Change processes in secondary schools -- Three views of curriculum policy in the school context : the school as policy mediator, policy critic, and policy constructor. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807730270 (alk. paper) 0807730262 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>90030093  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>High school teaching--Congresses.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1737.A3  / C63 1990 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>373.11/02/0973