Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean
The Cases of Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives.
In August...
by Roger C. Shouse, Kuan-Pei Lin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
During the past two decades, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has responded to globalization by restructuring school curricular, instructional, and decision making practices along western lines in an attempt to attain legitimacy on the world stage. As a result, Taiwanese principals, once kings within...
Big-City School Reforms
Lessons from New York, Toronto, and London
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Big cities have struggled to improve public school systems. This book shows why—and offers a framework for achieving future success. Fullan and Boyle, internationally renowned thinkers on school change, demonstrate that while the educational challenges of big cities may be overwhelming, they...
With the Best of Intentions
How Philanthropy Is Reshaping K-12 Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Bringing together a mix of researchers and practitioners, With the Best of Intentions examines the major goals of recent philanthropic efforts and looks at some of the key lessons--for educators, philanthropists, policymakers, and community leaders--of philanthropic contributions to schools and school...
Scale-Up in Education
Issues in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Scale-Up in Education, Volume 2: Issues in Practice explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. Included are reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, guidelines for establishing...
by Dr Clive Griggs, Clive Griggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book covers a crucial period for the development of state education in Britain; the advent of the comprehensive debate before and during the Second World War; the War years themselves and the 1944 Education Act; the post-War Labour Government; and Churchill's last government in a time of education...
The Arthurdale Community School
Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve the curriculum offered to Appalachian students. Offering...
Math Education for America?
Policy Networks, Big Business, and Pedagogy Wars
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Math Education for America? analyzes math education policy through the social network of individuals and private and public organizations that influence it in the United States. The effort to standardize a national mathematics curriculum for public schools in the U.S. culminated in 2010 when over...
Unraveling Reform Rhetoric
What Educators Need to Know and Understand
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Traditional public educators in the US have too little information about the free market of schooling, otherwise known as privatization/choice education. As a result, traditional public education colleagues have lost sight of where they are and how they got there. In this primer, educators, parents/caregivers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Measuring the Value of a Postsecondary Education is an insightful collection of essays that respond to current and pressing questions in the field of higher education: What do we mean by "quality" of education? What do courses and programs promise to deliver, and do they succeed? What do we know about...
Education Under Siege
Frauds, Fads, Fantasies and Fictions in Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This book analyzes each major reform--No Child Left Behind, Common Core State Standards, grading schools, evaluating teachers, failing students, vouchers, charters, online virtual charters-- and finds them seriously wanting. We conclude with reforms that work actually helping teachers, kids, parents and communities.
New Designs for Learning
Highlights of the Reports of the Ontario Curriculum Institute, 1963-1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
The last twenty-five years have seen unprecedented growth in the application of science in critical areas of human endeavor. Explosive acceleration in the rate of growth of learning has created unquestioned benefits but it has also served as a catalyst for social, economic, and political changes of...
The Normal Accident Theory of Education
Why Reform and Regulation Won’t Make Schools Better
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story. The so-called ‘reform’ discussion proceeds with a lack of depth about...
by James Crandell
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Despite billions spent and countless reforms instigated, American schools seem perpetually mired in mediocrity. To change that, we don’t need top-down initiatives or experts lecturing; we must recognize the uniqueness of every school and turn to those who know their classrooms best—teachers.Snowflake...