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The Audacity to Teach!
The Impact of Leadership, School Reform, and the Urban Context on Educational Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Audacity to Teach! is developed from a study of an inner city, urban elementary school that has undergone serial comprehensive reforms. Each act of reform has promised to bring about certain changes that would/will in return improve this particular school. This book explores critical issues such...
The Wrong Direction for Today's Schools
The Impact of Common Core on American Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
The Wrong Direction for Today’s Schools: The Impact of Common Core on American Education is an in-depth analysis of the newest national American education fad, intended to replace the 2002 incarnation of the ESEA, No Child Left Behind. Zarra delves into the “seeds” that produced the Common Core...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book addresses the need to diversify mainstream forms of assessment currently used in Higher Education in order to re-establish the focus on the learning process. Making assessment central to student learning is about returning to what current research emphasises: the primary beneficiary of assessment...
Educational Policy Borrowing in China
Looking West or looking East?
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars...
Unlock the Genius Within
Neurobiological Trauma, Teaching, and Transformative Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Here, Daniel S. Janik, MD, PhD, argues replacing education and teaching with non-traumatic, curiosity-based, discovery-driven, and mentor-assisted transformational learning. Unlock the Genius Within is an easy read that explains—in conversational manner—the newest ideas on neurobiological and...
Christian Faith in English Church Schools
Research Conversations with Classroom Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Church schools are booming, becoming increasingly popular with parents across the world. However, research shows that teachers face considerable challenges as they try to offer a distinctively Christian education within a church school context. This book is the account of a qualitative research project...
by Anthony T. Kronman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy.
In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest...
Model Lessons, Teaching Strategies, and High-Quality Texts
Supporting Common Core State Standards for Reading Grades 6 – 8
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This comprehensive manual that covers informational and literary texts will empower teachers to guide their students as they analyze challenging texts. Each lesson leads students to focus on the “why” and “how” of what an author is saying rather than just the “what.”
In addition...
Understanding the Steiner Waldorf Approach
Early Years Education in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This fully revised edition of Understanding the Steiner Waldorf Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Steiner Waldorf early childhood approach. It enables the reader to analyse the essential elements of the Steiner Waldorf...
by Vito Piazza
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Questa è una storia vera. È la storia dell’ultima scuola «speciale» italiana per alunni con disabilità: la «Treves-De Sanctis», nella periferia milanese, di cui l’autore è stato per anni direttore. Sembra venire da un passato lontanissimo, superato, seppellito dalle nuove bandiere dell’integrazione,...
Die Flüchtlinge sind da!
Wie zugewanderte Kinder und Jugendliche unsere Schulen verändern - und verbessern
Language: German
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Dieses E-Book enthält komplexe Grafiken und Tabellen, welche nur auf E-Readern gut lesbar sind, auf denen sich Bilder vergrössern lassen.
Rund ein Drittel aller Geflüchteten, die derzeit nach Europa kommen, sind minderjährig. Die Kinder und Jugendlichen sind häufig allein unterwegs und...
Bildung auf Augenhöhe
Streitschrift für eine Erneuerung des Gymnasiums
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Die Rede von der 'Bulimie-Pädagogik' spiegelt Erfahrungen ganzer Schülergenerationen wider: Stoff auswendig lernen um ihn bei der Prüfung wieder herauszuwürgen. So betreiben Gymnasien ihr Geschäft bis heute. Aber Bildung ist etwas anderes und geht auch anders. Christoph Schmitt zeigt auf, warum sich diese Unkultur so hartnäckig hält und welche Lösungen es dafür gibt.
by William H. Jeynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Are public charter schools more effective than traditional public schools? This book provides quantitative evidence to answer this question and considers a better way to undertake a policy of school choice.
• Supplies a unique evaluation of the school choice issue that is based, in part,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education highlights key debates on the theme of ‘regulation and resistance’, focusing on some of the most pressing contemporary issues in the field of gender and education today. It underlines the need for educational research to attend to historical...