Educational Reform category: 2687 books
American School Reform
What Works, What Fails, and Why
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation’s largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge—launched...
School Leadership in the Context of Standards-Based Reform
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
“Although standards-based reform emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom, the idea has spread across the world, as an approach to systemic reform. It might appear that there is a world-wide “tsunami” of standards-based reform that will standardize and homogenize the educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
The two volumes of the second edition of the International Handbook of Educational Change comprise a totally new, and updated collection of the most critical and cutting-edge ideas in educational change.
Written by the most influential thinkers in the field, these volumes cover educational...
Realizing Educational Rights
Advancing School Reform through Courts and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
In Realizing Educational Rights, Anne Newman examines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educational policy, and law: What is the place of a right to education in a participatory democracy, and how can we realize this right in the United States? Tracking...
Building a New Educational State
Foundations, Schools, and the American South
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Building a New Educational State examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and reformers at the top, the impact of their work at the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has been an active international influence in the assessment, development, and reform of national educational systems worldwide. The introduction of the OECD’s flagship international educational assessment, confirmed by, the Programme...
It's Time for a Change
School Reform for the Next Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The United States entered the 21st century as the world’s sole superpower. Our diplomatic strength, military might, financial resources, and technological innovation were, and continue to be, the envy of the world. However, in the crucial area of education, the U.S. lags behind many other developed...
Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in...
Disruptive Fixation
School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age....
Yes We Can!
Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Yes We Can: Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform is a empiricallybased book on urban education reform to not only proclaim that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produce a body of literature that examines current practices and then offer practical implications for...
by Des Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book pays special attention to the impact that a student's early childhood and socioeconomic status has on his or her educational achievement. It argues that discussions of education reform need a broader scope, one that encompasses a student's background as well as standardized testing, merit...
Building the Federal Schoolhouse
Localism and the American Education State
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Over the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system...
Confronting Oppressive Assessments
How Parents, Educators, and Policymakers Are Rethinking Current Educational Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book is about doing what’s right for public education in the United States in this age of intensive curriculum convergence, planned instructional standardization, and oppressive accountability procedures. Information is presented about why and how educators, parents, students, community members,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
This book in the International Perspectives on Education and Society (IPES) series describes, synthesizes, and forecasts how large-scale assessments and quantitative data impact evidence-based policymaking worldwide. This volume pays particular attention to the Middle East and North African (MENA)...