Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Quality and Change in Teacher Education
Western and Chinese Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide. This book addresses key issues of quality and change in teacher education in the context of the new public management achievement agendas which are permeating teacher education...
Off the Clock
Moving Education From Time to Competency
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
How to base learning on mastery instead of time
The authors not only suggest that student achievement should be based on mastering competencies instead of “seat time,” they have implemented it in New Hampshire—and this book tells you how. Fred Bramante and Rose Colby describe...
by Frederick M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Cage-Busting Teacher adopts the logic of Cage-Busting Leadership and applies it to the unique challenges and opportunities of classroom teachers. Detailed, accessible, and thoroughly engaging, it uncovers the many ways in which teachers can break out of familiar constraints in order to influence...
Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Post-Structuralist Reader, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This first volume focuses on a collection of texts from the latter twenty years of Educational Philosophy and Theory, selected for their critical status as turning points or important awakenings in post-structural theory. In the last twenty years, the applications of the postmodern and poststructuralist...
Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming Our Schools
Reversing Privatization and Recovering Democracy in America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
*Reclaiming Our Children,*Reclaiming our Schools offers both a comprehensive censure of the current corporate interest in privatizing public schooling as well as a framework for attaining meaningful education reform based in democracy and the combined will of the public. Using current research and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This volume explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and higher education reforms, setting it in a global context. It examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy issues in a global culture, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven...
Global University Rankings
Challenges for European Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Global University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe. The contributions in this volume outline different discourses on global university rankings and explore the related changes concerning European higher education policies,...
Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good
The role of universities in promoting human development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate public-good professional...
by Edward A. Wynne
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The prosperous, comfortable, and homogeneous American suburb is a relatively recent institution in American history. Edward Wynne was one of the first to take a serious look at the quality of suburban childhood, where, he contends, we have ignored the developments affecting the largest pool of children...
A Smarter Charter
Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“A remarkable new book.... Wise and energetic advocates such as Kahlenberg and Potter can take the charter movement in new and useful directions.”—The Washington PostMoving beyond the debate over whether or not charter schools should exist, A Smarter Charter wrestles with...
Teaching the Violent Past
History Education and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
During an armed conflict or period of gross human rights violations, the first priority is a cessation of violence. For the cease-fire to be more than a lull in hostilities and atrocities, however, it must be accompanied by a plan for political transition and social reconstruction. Essential to this...
World Development Report 2018
Learning to Realize Education's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Every year, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 WDR—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is right: education has long been critical to human welfare,...
The End of Exceptionalism in American Education
The Changing Politics of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Over the past fifty years, the “special status” of education decision-making has been eroded. Once the province of local and state school boards, decisions about schools and schooling have begun to emerge in every level and branch of government. In The End of Exceptionalism in American Education,...
Being Fair with Kids
The Effects of Poor Leadership in Rule Making
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Many students are penalized from maximizing their academic potential simply by being born at the wrong time of the year. Not only is there a significant decline in achievement for students born in the second half of the year but they also experience higher rates of failure which negatively impacts...