Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Intercultural Competence in Instructed Language Learning
Bridging Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
There is pressure on world language educators to prepare learners with 21st century skills to meet the challenges of an increasingly interconnected globalized world. The need for change was summarized in the 2007 report of the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages that suggested the implementation...
The Education Invasion
How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Most Americans had no idea what Common Core was in 2013, according to polls. But it had been creeping into schools nationwide over the previous three years, and children were feeling its effects. They cried over math homework so mystifying their parents could not help them, even in elementary school....
Educational Policy Innovations
Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
This volume presents how high performing education systems over the world are constantly innovating their educational policies to nurture their citizens for the challenges of the future economy and the anticipation of the unknown. This volume includes a state-of-the-art review of the literature...
The Knowledge Gap
The hidden cause of America's broken education system--and how to fix it
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty.
It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress...
by Patricia Broadfoot
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The 1970s saw a growing worldwide pre-occupation with school assessment; Britain witnessed lengthy debate in response to the proposals for examination reform initiated by the Schools Council, and the setting up of an Assessment of Performance Unit to monitor standards of achievement. This book analyzes...
Global Pedagogies
Schooling for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Global Pedagogies: Schooling for the Future, which is the twelfth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in comparative education research with reference to globalisation, educational policy and...
When Teacher Voices Are Heard
The Future of the Literacy Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Moving towards the Common Core Standards in reading and writing, the time is right for school districts to reform literacy instruction by focusing their instruction around the needs of their diverse student population and the teaching styles of their teachers. There is no better way to do this than...
by Geoffrey Caine, Renate Nummela Caine
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
Everyone agrees that improving education is vital, but people disagree on what to do. Business, parents, politicians, the media and educators all voice strong and conflicting opinions. The public needs to have the issues clarified, and to see a path that will work. There ARE ways to raise standards,...
by Martin Mills, Amanda Keddie, Peter Renshaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
In many English-speaking countries, teachers are encouraged to differentiate their classrooms, and in some cases, through various policy mechanisms. This encouragement is often accompanied by threats and sanctions for not making the grade. By exploring the ways in which one education system in Australia...
European Policy Implementation and Higher Education
Analysing the Bologna Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book presents a critical analysis of the implementation of the Bologna Process, its achievements and consequences, as well as its failures and lack of convergence problems. Over the last decade the implementation of the Bologna Process, an ambitious reform of European higher education systems,...
Lessons from the Teachers for a New Era Project
Evidence and Accountability in Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Chronicling a high-profile and ambitious teacher preparation reform project that took place across 11 diverse U.S. institutions, this volume examines the strategies, program changes, accomplishments, and challenges from the Teachers for a New Era Project (TNE). TNE aimed to improve the preparation...
Enhancing a High-Performing School Culture and Climate
New Insights for Improving Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The purpose of our book is to share with our readers some insights we have acquired over the years in our administrative experience implementing change and reforms. Two areas that are critical for any reform to succeed are the way communications and conflicts are handled. We have included a chapter...
International Research, Policy and Practice in Teacher Education
Insider Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This unique book is an important source of information for all of those who educate future teachers and those who participate in teacher education as students, researchers, educators and policymakers. The volume also contributes to the international development of higher quality and research-led...
Educational Facilities
Planning, Modernization, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Aspiring, new and old superintendents all want to have the BEST school facilities that are possible. This fifth edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the market today in the planning of educational facilities. A full chapter is devoted to school bond referendums, along with a ten...