Stacking the Deck: The Streaming of Working-Class Kids in Ontario Schools

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

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921908113
• ISBN13: 9780921908111
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Our Schools Our Selves
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.