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Passed On
Public School Children in Failing American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Passed On presents an honest, often gritty story of the classroom experience in failing schools in Philadelphia, PA, a city with violent crime and a high poverty rate. Through stories of her own students, Louise Marr reveals how the current corporate reform movement misunderstands what teachers and students...
Reclaiming the Teaching Profession
Transforming the Dialogue on Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Reclaiming the Teaching Profession gives educators (especially teachers and future teachers) and their allies a clear overview of the massive effort to dismantle public education in the United States, which includes a direct attack on teachers. The book details, and provides a systematic critique...
by Lora Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts...
Academia Inc.
How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s...
Globalizing Education for Work
Comparative Perspectives on Gender and the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
This book explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female workers. Authors from Australia, Africa, Brazil, Europe, North America, and South Korea use methodologies--such as literature reviews, case studies, legislative analysis, evaluations of model delivery...
The Great University Gamble
Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees lead to angry student-led protests. What will become of higher education under this new policy regime? *BR**BR*The Great University Gamble outlines the architecture...
Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE...
by Jay Sing
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
" The joy of active income earning phase of life is in its designed retirement. "; .... Author. This book is about growth of wealth over time for an ordinary person who has worked his or her way up to a steady income to make a reasonable living and envisages retiring comfortably. This book...
Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children
A Science of Performance Model for Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust ‘science of performance’ model of school change based on a specified process of...
Radical Equality in Education
Starting Over in U.S. Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Tinkering with the current educational system from within has not provided a just and equitable education for all children. In this book, acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling. Proposing that what is needed is a new purpose that...
Mentoring Teachers in Post-Compulsory Education
A Guide to Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This timely new handbook will be an essential read for all college staff who find themselves involved in mentoring trainee teachers in post-compulsory education, either through choice or necessity! Describing all of the expectations, responsibilities and rewards involved in mentoring college teachers...
Developing Your Portfolio - Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff
A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Portfolios have often been used as a way for teachers to monitor and assess their students' progress, but this book picks up on the current trend of using portfolios to assess teachers themselves as part of their degree requirements. As a professional development tool, portfolios are also useful for...
Classroom Management
A Guide for Urban School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn’t prepare them for the heavy demands of being an urban school teacher. Urban educators need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively...
Creative Development
Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Spark continual creative growth for both learners and educators. Creativity is a key ingredient for success in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, where skills such as collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are central. Most educators agree that encouraging creativity must become...