Educational Reform category: 2687 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
This book brings together the notions of material school design and educational governance in the first such text to address this critical interrelationship in any depth. In addressing the issue of governance through analysing current and historical material school designs, it looks at the intersection...
by Corky O'Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The education of America's children is critical to our nation and local communities, but sweeping reforms have left teachers demoralized, children frustrated, and families disenfranchised. America's Schools at a Turning Point: And how we THE PEOPLE can help shape their future is a wake-up call.Author...
Conceptualizing Soft Power of Higher Education
Globalization and Universities in China and the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
This book examines the globalization trends in higher education from an international political science perspective, using Nye’s theory of soft power to explore the rationale behind it. It focuses on conceptualizing the Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education, which is embedded in the globalization...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
This volume stimulates critical discussions of the different variants of implementation, translation and scaling research approaches. It presents an integrated collection of different implementation and scaling studies that analyse the different facets of co-design, learning design, curriculum development,...
Schools on Trial
How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Schools on Trial is an all-in attack on the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change by one of the most passionate and certainly youngest writers on this subject.
Are America’s schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate...
Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education
A utopian dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Thomas Jefferson had a profoundly advanced educational vision that went hand in hand with his political philosophy - each of which served the goal of human flourishing. His republicanism marked a break with the conservatism of traditional non-representative governments, characterized by birth and...
The Importance of Average
Playing the Game of School to Increase Success and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational system. Arguments presented emphasize the collateral damage caused to average students by legislative mandates, administrative policies, teaching...
The Rise and Fall of English
Reconstructing English as a Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. Robert Scholes offers a thoughtful and witty intervention in current debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy...
Coloring in the White Spaces
Reclaiming Cultural Identity in Whitestream Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book examines the struggle against racial and cultural inequity in educational systems, presenting the case study of a New Zealand school and its community’s determination to resist alienating environments. If we look at an untouched child’s coloring book, for instance, we think of the pages...
African American Males in School and Society
Practices and Policies for Effective Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this groundbreaking and timely volume Vernon Polite and James Earl Davis have brought together the perspectives and research findings of eminent scholars who study the educational and social lives of African American males. The result is a volume that brims with new outlooks and viewpoints—a...
Why?
African American Children Can Not Read
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
WHY? Why do African American children fill the rolls of low achievers? Why do African American children fill the rolls of needs improvement schools? Why do African American children fill the rolls of high school dropouts? Why do African American children fill the rolls of special education classes?...
World Yearbook of Education 2014
Governing Knowledge: Comparison, Knowledge-Based Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on a major and highly significant development in the governing of education across the globe: the use of knowledge-based technologies as key policy sources. A combination of factors has produced this shift: first, the massive...
Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE...
Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools
Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While race and culture remain important variables in how young people experience schools, they are often misunderstood by educators and school personnel. Building on three studies that investigated schools successful in closing the achievement gap, Tyrone Howard shows how adopting greater awareness...