Description: Rather than simply lamenting that there is never enough time in the school day, this book looks at the dimensions of time as a significant factor in the success and failure of many of today's school reform efforts.
Brief description: Patricia Gandara is Associate Professor of Education, University of California, Davis. She is the author of Over the Ivy Walls: The Educational Mobility of Low-Income Chicanos, also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"This volume brings together two disparate, but highly interdependent fields of research--that of research on time and learning and that of research on school reform. It is an appealing and productive combination. A valuable sourcebook."--Nancy Karweit, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University
"The book has a rich array of different ways to look at time. The cases, theoretical descriptions, multi-cultural settings--all of these add to an interesting and potentially important book for the field. I found this book to be very interesting in many respects. I learned from it, resonated to many of the chapters, and deepened my understanding of how to think about time in schools."--Ann Lieberman, Teachers College, Columbia University