REFERENCES
- Apple, M. 1979. Ideology and curriculum. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Apple, M. 1983. Curricular reform and the logic of technical control. In Ideology and practice in schooling, edited by Michael Apple and Lois Weis, 143–65. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- Bellah, R., Madsen, R., Sullivan, W., Swidler, A., Tipton, S. 1985. Habits of the heart: Individualism and commitment in American life. New York: Harper & Row.
- Bloom, B. 1981. All our children learning. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. 1976. Schooling in capitalist America. New York: Basic Books.
- Boyer, E. 1983. High school. New York: Harper & Row.
- Brann, E. 1979. Paradoxes of education in a republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Bruner, J. 1977. The process of education, 2nd edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Center, D. 1989. Curriculum and teaching strategies for students with behavioral disorders. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
- Coleman, J. 1961. The adolescent society. New York: Free Press.
- Collins, R. 1977. Some comparative principles of educational stratification. Harvard Educational Review, 47: 1–29.
- Collins, R. 1979. The credential society. New York: Academic Press.
- Cottle, T. 1974. What tracking did to Ollie Taylor. Social Policy, 5: 21–24.
- Cusick, P. 1973. Inside high school. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
- Cusick, P. 1983. The egalitarian ideal and the American high school. New York, Longman.
- Doll, R. 1989. Curriculum improvement, 7th edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
- Edelman, M. 1977. Political language: Words that succeed and policies that fail. New York: Academic Press.
- Edwards, A. D., & Furlong, V. 1978. The language of teaching. London: Heinemann Education Books.
- Everhart, R. 1983. Reading, writing, and resistance: Adolescence and labor in a junior high school. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Finley, M. 1984. Teachers and tracking in a comprehensive high school. Sociology of Education, 57: 233–43.
- Furlong, V. 1977. Anancy goes to school: A case study of pupils' knowledge of their teachers. In School experience, edited by Peter Woods and Martyn Ham-Mersley, 162–85. London: Croom Helm.
- Gamoran, A., & Berends, M. 1987. Stratification in secondary schools. Review of Educational Research, 57, (4): 415–36.
- Geertz, C. 1973. The interpretation of cultures. New York: Harper & Row.
- Gilmore, P. 1985. Silence and sulking: Emotional displays in the classroom. In Perspectives on silence, edited by Deborah Tannen and Muriel Saville-Troike, 139–62. New York: Ablex.
- Good, T., & Brophy, J. 1987. Looking in classrooms, 4th edition. New York: Harper & Row.
- Goodlad, J. 1984. A place called school. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Gronlund, N. 1985. Stating objectives for classroom instruction, 3rd edition. New York: Macmillan.
- Heath, S. 1982. Questioning at home and at school: A comparative study. In Doing the ethnography of schooling, edited by George Spindler, 103–27. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
- Heath, S., & Branscombe, A. 1985. “Intelligent writing” in an audience community: Teacher, students and researcher. In The acquisition of written language: Response and revision, edited by Susan Freedman, 162–82. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
- Henry, J. 1963. Culture against man. New York: Random House.
- Hess, R., Chang, C.-M., & McDevitt, T. 1986. Cultural variations in family beliefs about children's performance in mathematics: Comparisons among The People's Republic of China, Chinese-American, and Caucasian-American families. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Hurn, C. 1985. Changes in authority relations in schools: 1960–80. In Research in sociology of education and socialization, Volume 5, edited by Alan Kerckhoff, 31–58. Greenwich, CN: JAI Press.
- Jackson, P. 1968. Life in classrooms. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
- Jackson, P. 1981. Comprehending a weli-run comprehensive: A report on a visit to a large suburban high school. Daedalus, 110 (4): 81–96.
- Jencks, C. 1973. Inequality in retrospect. Harvard Educational Review, 43: 138–164.
- Jencks, C., Smith, M., Acland, H., Bane, M. J., Cohen, D., Gintis, H., Heynes, B., & Michelson, S. 1972. Inequality: a reassessment of the effect of family and. schooling in America. New York: Basic Books.
- Kammen, M. 1974. People of paradox: A contrapuntal civilization. New York: A. Knopf.
- Keddie, N. 1971. Classroom knowledge. In Knowledge and control, edited by Michael F. D. Young, 133–60. London: Collier-Macmillan.
- Klausmeier, H., Quilling, M., Sorenson, J., Way, R., & Glasrud, G. 1977. Individually guided education and the multiunit school. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning, The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Lapham, L. 1987. Give greed a sporting chance. Los Angeles Times editorial page, November 28.
- Lightfoot, S. 1981. Portraits of exemplary secondary schools: Highland Park. Daedalus, 110 (4): 59–80.
- McNeil, L. 1986. Contradictions of control. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Metz, M. 1978. Classrooms and corridors: The crisis of authority in desegregated secondary schools. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Metz, M. 1983. Sources of constructive social relations in an urban magnet school. American Journal of Education, 91: 202–245.
- Metz, M. 1988. “The American high school”: A universal drama amid disparate experience. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 9.
- Merelman, R. 1984. Making something of ourselves: On culture and politics in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Meyer, J. 1986. Types of explanation in the sociology of education. In Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education, edited by John Richardson, 341–60. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Miller, J., & Seller, W. 1985. Curriculum: Perspectives and practice. New York: Longman.
- Moll, L., & Diaz, S. 1987. Change as a goal of educational research. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 18 (4): 300–311.
- Oakes, J. 1985. Keeping track. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Page, R. 1984. Perspectives and processes: The negotiation of educational meanings in high school classes for academically unsuccessful students. Unpublished dissertation. Madison: University of Wisconsin.
- Page, R. 1987a. Lower-track classes at a college-preparatory high school: A caricature of educational encounters. In Interpretive ethnography of education: At home and abroad, edited by George and Louise Spindler, 445–72. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Page, R. 1987b. Teacher perceptions of students: A link between classrooms, school cultures, and the social order. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 18: 77–99.
- Page, R. 1989. Lower-track classes in a “heavenly” high school: “Cycles of prejudice.” Journal of Curriculum Studies, 21 (May/June): 197–221.
- Rich, S. 1988. The twilight of the big-paycheck, blue-collar era. Washington Post National Weekly Edition, June 13–19.
- Riesman, D. 1950. The lonely crowd: A study of the changing American character. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Rosenbaum, J. 1976. Making inequality. New York: John Wiley.
- Russell, G. 1986. Manic market. Time, 128, 19 (November 10): 64–70.
- Schlechty, P. 1976. Teaching and social behavior: Toward an organizational theory of instruction. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
- Schwartz, F. 1981. Supporting or subverting learning: Peer group patterns in four tracked schools. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 12: 453–468.
- Sedlak, N., Wheeler, C., Pullin, D., & Cusick, P. 1986. Selling students short: Classroom bargains and academic reform in the American high school. New York: Teachers College.
- Spindler, G., & Spindler, L. 1982. Roger Harker and Schonhausen: From the familiar to the strange and back again. In Doing the ethnography of schooling, edited by George Spindler, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
- Spindler, G., & Spindler, L. 1983. Anthropologists view American culture. Annual Review of Anthropology, 12: 49–78.
- Tobin, K., & Gallagher, J. 1987. What happens in high school science classrooms? Journal of Curriculum Studies, 19 (6): 549–560.
- Turner, R. 1960. Sponsored and contest mobility and the school system. American Sociological Review, 25: 855–867.
- Varenne, H. 1974. From ranking and freedom of choice to ranking and segregation in an American high school. Council on Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 5 (May): 9–15.
- Varenne, H. 1977. Americans together: Structured diversity in a midwestern town. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Wacquant, L., & Wilson, W. 1988. Beyond welfare reform: Poverty, joblessness, and the social transformation of the inner city. Paper presented at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference on Welfare Reform. Williamsburg, VA, February.
- Waller, W. 1932. The sociology of teaching. New York: John Wiley.
- Wehlage, G. & Rutter, R. 1986. Dropping out: How much do schools contribute to the problem? Teachers College Record, 87: 374–392.
- Wehlage, G., Stone, C., & Kliebard, H. 1980. Dropouts and schools: Case studies of the dilemmas educators face. Madison, WI: State of Wisconsin Governor's Employment and Training Office.
- Willis, P. 1977. Learning to labor: How working class kids get working class jobs. Westmead: Saxon House.