Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Education Unchained
What it takes to Restore Schools and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Are we going about education the wrong way? The somewhat shocking demonstration of this book is that "we" simply cannot reform "our" schools "together". We don't actually even know what schools or education really are. Education can only be improved the same way we improve...
by Richard Pring
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Is there life after death for secondary education?
This book focuses upon the quality of learning. ‘Reform’, so called, too often begins with qualifications, examinations, institutional provision, paths of progression. All those are very important, but their value lies in the support they...
The Great Literacy Debate
A Critical Response to the Literacy Strategy and the Framework for English
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The nature of literacy is an issue of global debate. When the National Literacy Strategy [NLS] was introduced into UK schools it was arguably the most ambitious educational reform programme in the world, and the controversy necessarily intensified. How can the impact of such reforms be assessed?
In...
Democratic Education in Practice
Inside the Mission Hill School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Mission Hill School, founded by MacArthur Award winner Deborah Meier and colleagues in 1997, is a small public school that has rethought almost everything about the process of teaching and learning. Beyond richly describing and evaluating this high-achieving school, the author argues that democratic...
Colormute
Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research...
Data and Teaching
Moving Beyond Magical Thinking to Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing on their research in nine of New York City’s most poverty‐impacted schools, the authors dive deep into school systems and routines, as well as into teachers’ practices and students’ experiences. They also zoom out to capture the larger currents that have made this school reform strategy...
The Kids are Smart Enough, So What’s the Problem?
A Businessman’s Perspective on Educational Reform and the Teacher Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
There is a national crisis in education, and it’s not the highly-debated philosophical discussions or heated political arguments we are used to hearing. Survey data establishes the fact that classrooms throughout the nation suffer from the presence of a small percentage of misbehaving students....
Segregated Schools
Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Fifty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was "inherently unequal," Paul Street argues that little progress has been made to meaningful reform America's schools. In fact, Street considers the racial make-up of today's schools as a state of de facto...
Saving the School
One Woman's Fight for the Kids That Education Reform Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Inside the race to save a great American high school, where making the numbers is only the beginning
Being principal was never her dream. Anabel Garza, the young widow of a young cop, got by teaching English to immigrant children, taking college classes at night and raising her son.
And...
Urban Youth and School Pushout
Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!
Recent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing accountability policies, most notably through the use of high-stakes standardized testing, mayoral control, and...
Insurrection
A Teacher Revolution in Defense of Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Enough. Private interests, politicians, reformers, and pundits have had their chance, and enough is enough. Teachers have been pushed around and pushed to the edge, and the time for tolerating the failed system of our public education policies is over. It's time to drag the standardized testing commercial...
Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Pedagogies
Language, Culture, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Today’s schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the backdrop of the western-derived, institutional framework...
Policy and Politics in Teacher Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
During the last 20 years, governments around the world have paid increasing attention to the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers. Teacher supply and teacher quality have become significant policy issues, taken up by policy-makers at the highest levels. This is because teachers are...
Understanding Key Education Issues
How We Got Here and Where We Go From Here
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In this age of education innovation and reform, schools must evolve and react to current policy trends. This accessible book offers research-based insights into six key educational trends and issues that are impacting K–12 learning today: year-round schooling, assessments, educating minorities,...