Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Education, Inequality and Social Class
Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Education, Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most important theoretical perspectives that have been developed to understand class-based inequality and frame further research....
Global Voices in Education
Ruth Wong Memorial Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book brings together selected lectures given by eminent educationalists in memory of Ruth Wong, an influential figure in the field of education. The lectures represent the powerful ideas seeded by Dr Wong and address the challenges of education in Singapore’s journey from a textbook case of...
Organizing Locally
How the New Decentralists Improve Education, Health Care, and Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
We love the local. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. But the fact is that huge, bureaucratic organizations often still...
The Power in the Room
Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education.
Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen...
Those Kids, Our Schools
Race and Reform in an American High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In Those Kids, Our Schools, Shayla Reese Griffin examines patterns of racial interaction in a large, integrated high school and makes a powerful case for the frank conversations that educators could and should be having about race in schools.
Over three years, Griffin observed students, teachers,...
Putting Education to Work
How Cristo Rey High Schools Are Transforming Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The story of how The Cristo Rey Network’s values-based education model and revolutionary work study program have improved urban schools and inspired education reform across the nation.
Combining the latest advancements in instruction, a focus on spiritual values and character development,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In a struggling global economy, education is focused on core subjects such as language arts and mathematics, and the development of technological and career-readiness skills. Arts education has not been a central focus of education reform movements in the United States, and none of the current education...
Innovations in Knowledge and Learning
Postsecondary Education Reform to Support Employment and Inclusive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
To meet modern-day challenges of improving quality and relevance, responding to new knowledge, and strengthening teaching and learning, the postsecondary education space must revise system structures, content designs, and delivery strategies, i.e., engage in disruptive thinking. Governments need to...
A Curriculum of Fear
Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Welcome to Milton High School, where fear is a teacher’s best tool and every student is a soldier in the war on terror. A struggling public school outside the nation’s capital, Milton sat squarely at the center of two trends: growing fear of resurgent terrorism and mounting pressure to run schools...
A Journalist's Education in the Classroom
The Challenge of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
After an impressive career in journalism, David S. Awbrey became a middle-school social studies teacher in Springfield, Missouri, a typical American community that he uses as a compelling case study to explore many of the social and academic problems facing education nationwide.
Paradigm Shift in Education
Towards the Third Wave of Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
As social contexts and demands change in the 21st century, pedagogies and policies must adapt to keep up. Increasing emphasis on global preparedness, competitivity, and holistic education alongside a fast-paced, ever-changing environment may make policy implementation difficult. However, Cheng asserts...
Indian Education
Progress and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Education in it's general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. Systems of schooling involve institutionalised teaching and learning in relation to a curriculum,...
China's Development
Social Investment and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
China has made remarkable yet uneven progress in social development. This book analyses China's achievements and problems in social development from the perspective of social investment. Social investment has gained popularity in Europe as a new social policy paradigm. It seeks to use government budget...
by Sabine Hoidn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
This book aims to develop a situative educational model to guide the design and implementation of powerful student-centered learning environments in higher education classrooms. Rooted in educational science, Hoidn contributes knowledge in the fields of general pedagogy, and more specifically, higher...