Changing Classes

Changing Classes tells the story of Willow Run a small poor ethnically-mixed town in Michigan''s rust belt a community in turmoil over the announced closing of a nearby auto assembly plant. As teachers and administrators began to find ways to make schooling more relevant to working-class children two large-scale school reform initiatives swept into town: the Governor''s market-place reforms and the National Science Foundation''s state systemic initiative. Against the backdrop of a post-fordist economy the author shows complex linkages at work as society structures the development of children to adulthood.