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Muir, William K., Jr. – 1983
The nature of teachers' control in classrooms is explored in order: to understand the tension created when noneducators superimpose their rules on the regime of teachers at work and to learn something of a general nature about the antagonism between regulators and those they regulate. Teachers' regulatory powers are based on coercion, exchange, or…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Theories
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., Reston, VA. – 1991
This document, together with an earlier document, "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics," is designed to establish a broad framework to guide reform in school mathematics in the next decade. These standards spell out what teachers need to know to teach toward new goals for mathematics education and how teaching…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Change, Educational Environment
Thomas, J. Alan; Kemmerer, Frances – 1983
Chapter 1 of this study discusses sources of educational inequality in terms of criteria for resource allocation, definitions of educational equity, and equity and efficiency in the classroom. Following the second chapter's review of literature on how resources affect learning, chapter 3 offers a theory of resource allocation education. The fourth…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum, Decision Making, Educational Equity (Finance)