Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Horace's School
Redesigning the American High School
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1997
A plan for school reform that respects the best traditions of secondary schooling and urges us to do far more in preparing adolescents for the future.
Politics and Policy Making in Education
Explorations in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities...
Leaders Who Dare
Pushing the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Here, the authors focus on educators who dare to lead their schools, districts, universities, and educational organizations to new possibilities. The leadership practices of the individuals featured contribute significantly to craft knowledge and to the discourse on contemporary issues of educational...
Something in Common
The Common Core Standards and the Next Chapter in American Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Something in Common is the first book to provide a detailed look at the groundbreaking Common Core State Standards and their potential to transform American education.
This book tells the story of the unfolding political drama around the making of the Common Core State Standards for math and...
by Frank Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Based on two conferences, this volume explores trends during the 1960s and 1970s in inner city areas in the United Kingdom. It describes how the inner city is losing jobs and skilled workers and, as the population falls, the number of disadvantaged people and those claiming benefits is increasing....
Strike for America
Chicago Teachers Against Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized...
Educational Accountability
International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Educational Accountability: International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership provides an opportunity to assess, reflect on, and discuss current issues surrounding accountability policies in education from around the globe and the implications they hold for school leadership....
A Time for the Humanities
Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human,...
Improving School Board Effectiveness
A Balanced Governance Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Improving School Board Effectiveness offers a clarifying and essential look at the evolving role of school boards and how they contribute to efforts to improve student learning. It examines how board members can establish effective district priorities, and it explores those board policies and actions...
by Mark Brundrett, Christopher Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
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...
Development of Higher Education in Africa
Prospects and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The global education revolution of the 20th century resulted in massive developments in education worldwide, but the higher education sector throughout Africa remains surprisingly underdeveloped. Although impressive expansion and reform of higher education in Africa have occurred since 1990, the higher...
Degrees of Deception
America's For-Profit Higher Education Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Degrees of Deception explains the development and widespread abuses of the for-profit higher education sector in America. To illustrate the scope and degree of wrongdoing in forprofit higher education, readers are exposed to the industry in the same sequential order that students experience it in...
Learning from the Experts
Teacher Leaders on Solving America's Education Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Learning from the Experts offers an intimate look at the ways education policies collide with everyday classroom practices and illustrates how thoughtful, solutions-oriented and results-driven teachers are reframing debates in education today.
Early career teachers now make up a “new majority”...
by Colin Mills, Helen M. Gunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book is a comprehensive study into and about consultants doing consultancy, and having influence in ways that generate concerns about an emerging ‘consultocracy’, with privileged access to governments and public services. It presents a detailed mapping of consultants and consultancy in education...