Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Creating a Culture for High-Performing Schools
A Comprehensive Approach to School Reform and Dropout Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A high-performing school is described as one where student achievement is high and student and teacher absenteeism is low. Student behavior is such that teachers seldom have to control them or tell them what to do. This results in greater time on task, higher teacher morale, low teacher absenteeism,...
Taking It to the Streets
The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Higher education scholars often conduct research on topics about which they care deeply, but to what extent should they be advocates for reform and social change? One school of thought believes researchers should remain dispassionate and data focused; the other, that a researcher, by the very questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Co-published by Routledge for the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Educational policy continues to be of major concern. Policy debates about economic growth and national competitiveness, for example, commonly focus on the importance of human capital and a highly educated workforce....
by Bryan Shelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Pointing to the disparities between wealthy and impoverished school districts in areas where revenue depends primarily upon local taxes, reformers repeatedly call for the centralization of school funding. Their proposals meet resistance from citizens, elected officials, and school administrators who...
Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools
The Politics of Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
April 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the landmark legislation that has provided the foundation of federal education policy in the United States. In Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools, longtime policy analyst Jack Jennings examines...
Mobile Learning Communities
Creating New Educational Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Mobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning ‘on the run’. This book provides empirical evidence that draws on the authors’ 17 years of continuing research with international occupational Travelers. It engages with themes such as workplace...
Education Policy
Process, Themes and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for...
by Fazal Rizvi, Bob Lingard
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of writing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The concept of school turnaround—rapidly improving schools and increasing student achievement outcomes in a short period of time—has become politicized despite the relative newness of the idea. Unprecedented funding levels for school improvement combined with few examples of schools substantially...
Learning Communities 2.0
Educating in the Age of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Learning Communities 2.0 is an insightful, incisive, and paradigm-shifting critique of today's coercive, 'inside-the-box,' Industrial Age testing and accountability movement, which authors Spady and Schwahn describe as a politically driven, backward-facing juggernaut masquerading as reform. They call...
Cash on Delivery
A New Approach to Foreign Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently does more harm than good; others insist that aid must be seriously reformed to work properly. Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning...
by John Holt
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This is a reprint of John Holt's controversial book about the rights of children and how adults and children can live and learn together more enjoyably and transparently by rethinking their relationships. Under the guise of care and protection, children are kept in the walled garden of childhood,...
Death of the Public University?
Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue ‘excellence’ and ‘innovation’, many universities...
These Kids
Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a “last...