Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Richard Niesche, Amanda Keddie
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Issues of social justice and equity in the field of educational leadership have become more salient in recent years. The unprecedented diversity, uncertainty and rapid social change of the contemporary global era are generating new and unfamiliar equity questions and challenges for schools and their...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This particular case study is designed to explore the extent to which a teacher evaluation system is effective. It also addresses the challenge of measuring student achievement gains when the students in question are already at the high end of the scale, a different yet important—problem in an era...
How Political Correctness Weakens Schools
Stop Losing and Start Winning Educational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Education for this generation’s youth is the key for our nation’s future well-being but it is now threatened by political correctness. A politically correct environment seeks to avoid controversial issues by maintaining the status quo on matters related to workers in the education system while...
Thinking and Acting Systemically
Improving School Districts Under Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This volume argues that districts are important as a lever for change given the limited success of school-by-school efforts. Policies that focus on skill development, recognize and support performance, create opportunities for collaboration, build leader capacity, and create networks of knowledge...
Creating Educational Access, Equity, and Opportunity for All
Real Change Requires Redesigning Public Education to Reflect Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Louis Sullivan, an American architect, was referred to as the "father of modernism" and coined the phrase "form follows function.” His phrase provides a key insight into the state of public education in America. The existing form for public education is industrial in nature and is...
Serving Students Who Are Homeless
A Resource Guide for Schools, Districts, and Educational Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Schools and districts are seeing unprecedented numbers of students and families living without residential stability. Although the McKinney-Vento Act has been around for over two decades, many district- and site-level practitioners have a difficult time interpreting and implementing the Act’s mandates...
by Mutea Rukwaru
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
The book Education at Crossroads is a broader and an updated version of the author’s dissertation entitled Relative Distribution of Socio-Economic Resources and the Performance of Certificate of Primary Education (C.P.E.), A Case Study of Gaitu sub-location in Meru District, submitted to the University...
Rethinking US Education Policy
Paradigms of the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Drawing on discussions of the "Creative Economy," the "Network Economy," and the "Green Economy," Rethinking US Education Policy critiques educational policies authored by the Obama administration and considers the need for a new educational policy framework that is better adapted to an era of accelerating innovation.
Voice of Pedagogy
What Teachers Really Want to Say and What Americans Need to Know About American Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Our president knows it, our parents know it, and our children know it: education is the single most important key to achieving success in todays competitive world. In this handbook, a seasoned professor combines ideas from teachers across the nation with research and insight gathered from his own...
Assessment for Excellence
The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
The second edition of Assessment for Excellence arrives as higher education enters a new era of the accountability movement. In the face of mandates such as results-based funding and outcomes-based accreditation, institutions and assessment specialists are feeling increasingly pressured to demonstrate...
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This first issue of 2012 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and education scholars, including an extensive Symposium on understanding education and its issues of policy and law in the United States. Topics include economic structures in education, teaching patriotism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This handbook examines policy research on school counseling across a wide range of countries and offers guidelines for developing counseling research and practice standards worldwide. It identifies the vital role of counseling in enhancing students’ educational performance and general wellbeing,...
The Secrets of Timeless Teachers
Instruction that Works in Every Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The perpetual anxiety about America's educational system has created a state in which teachers, administrators, and parents are on a constant search for magical solutions for what ails the American classroom. Theories, reforms, and strategies abound, each purporting to be a panacea the educational...
by Cary F. Goulson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
This is a comprehensive primary reference to a rich and often neglected storehouse of information on Canada's educational background.
As the boundary between full-fledged royal commissions and other official governmental inquiries is not always clear -- and many legislative committee inquiries...