Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies
The History, Implementation, and Controversy of Zero Tolerance Policies in Student Codes of Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Mandatory punishments for disciplinary offenses have been included in school districts Student Codes of Conduct since it was mandated by the GunFree Schools Act of 1994. While zero tolerance policies were initially created to protect students and teachers from gun attacks in schools, the way in which...
The Charter School Experiment
Expectations, Evidence, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
When charter schools first arrived on the American educational scene, few observers suspected that within two decades thousands of these schools would be established, serving almost a million and a half children across forty states. The widespread popularity of these schools, and of the charter movement...
by Seymour B. Sarason
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Revisiting “The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change” provocatively and seamlessly joins Seymour Sarason’s classic, landmark text on school change with his own insightful reflections on those same issues in the face of today’s crisis in public schools. This is an extensive, monograph–length...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
This edited volume offers a comprehensive survey of Korean education in transition. Divided into three parts, the book first assesses the current state of Korean education. It examines how the educational system handles the effects of family background and gender in helping students smoothly transition...
Does Education Really Help?
Skill, Work, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay. Indeed, the econometric results provide no evidence...
Cradle to Kindergarten
A New Plan to Combat Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Early care and education for many children in the United States is in crisis. The period between birth and kindergarten is a critical time for child development, and socioeconomic disparities that begin early in children’s lives contribute to starkly different long-term outcomes for adults. Yet,...
Pedagogy of Empowerment
Community Schools as a Social Movement in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This new study weaves anthropological detail with hard facts and analysis as it takes the reader to visit the community schools of Upper Egypt. It offers a historical understanding of the initiative whilst carefully embedding it in the political and economic global context of the late twentieth century....
Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century
Educational Goals, Policies, and Curricula from Six Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
This book describes how different nations have defined the core competencies and skills that young people will need in order to thrive in the twenty-first-century, and how those nations have fashioned educational policies and curricula meant to promote those skills. The book examines six countries—Chile,...
by Jonathan Neufeld
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Has any occupational group been the subject of as much research as elementary or primary school teachers? Written by a former elementary school teacher, this intensive study considers how the foundations of the ongoing teacher reform movement have appealed to researchers through its successive stages....
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care
Perspectives from Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care explores early childhood education and care in Australia from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity of working within the field and the need for a truly interdisciplinary approach. It argues that only a holistic understanding...
Powerful Reforms with Shallow Roots
Improving America's Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drastic reform measures are being implemented in growing numbers of urban communities as the public’s patience has finally run out with perpetually nonperforming public schools. This authoritative and eye-opening volume examines governance changes in six cities during the 1990s, where either...
Language Policy Processes and Consequences
Arizona Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book traces the recent socio-historical trajectory of educational language policy in Arizona, the state with the most restrictive English-only implementation in the US. Chapters, each representing a case study of policy-making in the state, include:
• an overview and background of the...
by C. Fraser Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Where were you on June 19, 1986? That's the day when--improbably--Len Bias, one of the greats of the college basketball game, a player seemingly destined for NBA stardom, died of a cocaine overdose. For the next several months, millions of Americans followed the continuing, unfolding tragedy at...
None of the Above
The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed , and the Criminalization of Educators
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems rooted in the education reform movement.
In March of 2013, 35 educators in the Atlanta Public Schools were charged with racketeering and conspiracy—the same charges...