Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Ghetto Schooling
A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this personal account, originally published in 1997, Jean Anyon provides evidence that the economic and political devastation of America’s inner cities has robbed schools and teachers of the capacity to successfully implement current strategies of educational reform. She argues that without fundamental...
Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education
Education Reforms, Nationalism and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book draws on elements of critical social theory, research on globalization, neo liberalism and education, and Malaysian Studies to understand the interplay of globalization, nationalism, cultural politics and ethnicized neoliberalism in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia. Using the...
Advocacy Leadership
Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership...
Transforming Schools
Alternative Perspectives on School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
President Obama has on a number of occasions rejected policies that have been tried and do not work. Legislation such as No Child Left Behind and policies such as Race to the Top are neither effective nor based on sound research. Educational policymaking is now, more than ever, the preserve of politicians,...
by Gunter, Helen M.
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Western politicians consider that leadership is essential for the delivery of educational reform. This important and timely book examines how leaders, leading and leadership became the dominant theme in education. It presents an analysis of the relationship between the state, public policy and the...
College Student Voices on Educational Reform
Challenging and Changing Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This text critically addresses, through college student voices, the American school reform movement in its rhetoric, policy, and practice. It demonstrates how university courses can be designed to treat students as engaged citizens and contextualizes students' voices in the private university and the public sphere.
Policy Borrowing and Reform in Education
Globalized Processes and Local Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book addresses the intersections of globalization, policy borrowing, and educational reform. Drawing upon multiple disciplines, it provides a comprehensive overview of globalization’s history, processes, theories, and trends, both generally and in education specifically. The book includes an...
by Keith A. Nitta
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who will teach them, and how it will be paid for clearly rests with some mix of district, state, and national policymakers. This book seeks to...
Democratic Education and the Public Sphere
Towards John Dewey’s theory of aesthetic experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book considers John Dewey’s philosophy of democratic education and his theory of public sphere from the perspective of the reconstruction and redefinition of the dominant liberalist movement. By bridging art education and public sphere, and drawing upon contemporary mainstream philosophies,...
Mislabeled as Disabled
The Educational Abuse of Struggling Learners and How WE Can Fight It
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This book, described by reviewers as “shocking” and “a masterpiece,” exposes the tragic tale of the millions of schoolchildren who are never taught basic skills in reading, writing, and math. With heart-wrenching stories of individual children from his own experience as an advocate and ground-breaking...
Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching
From Political Visions to Classroom Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
What lessons can we learn from the relationship between policy-makers and schools over the life of the ‘New’ Labour and its predecessor Conservative government? What happened to ‘Education, Education, Education’ as it travelled from political vision to classroom practice? What are the lasting...
Why Knowledge Matters
Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences.
Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent...
Tilting at Windmills
School Reform, San Diego, and America’s Race to Renew Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A book that draws equally on Richard Lee Colvin’s deep acquaintance with contemporary education reform and the unique circumstances of the San Diego experience, Tilting at Windmills is a penetrating and invaluable account of Alan Bersin’s contentious superintendency.
Between 1998, when...
The Assault on Public Education
Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this timely interdisciplinary volume, William Watkins has brought together leading scholars and activists to address some of the most urgent issues facing public education. What is underneath and behind the language of choice, efficiency, and improvement in current neoliberal discourse? How will...