Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Positively Transforming Minds within Educational Systems
An Inner-Directed Inquiry Process for Educators and the Students they Serve
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Youth and young adult suicide and depression is on the rise and employers are complaining about the lack of preparedness among high school and college graduates. This book illustrates the research that can support youth, young adults, and their instructors to transform learning environments that...
by Jared Myracle
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
A parent's guide to understanding the Common Core educational standards
Designed to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions, the Common Core standards have been adopted in 45 states from coast to coast. These new common standards...
Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability
Hitting the Target but Missing the Point
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
This book focuses on education and its relation to professional accountability as viewed from two different, but not unrelated, perspectives. First, the book is about the work of professionals in schools and colleges (teachers, head teachers, leaders, principals, directors and educational managers,...
Teaching While Black
A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Teaching should never be color-blind. In a world where many believe the best approach toward eradicating racism is to feign ignorance of our palpable physical differences, a few have led the movement toward convincing fellow educators not only to consider race but to use it as the very basis of their...
The Great Mistake
How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt...
Other People's Children
Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and *Choice Magazine’*s Outstanding Academic book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary...
DIY U
Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of college students...
Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education
A New Level Playing Field?
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in higher education and equality in England, the contributors and editors expose the contradictions arising...
The Global Fourth Way
The Quest for Educational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The authors focus on the real-life, nitty-gritty challenges that change leaders face and how to put Fourth Way principles to work promoting student learning and achievement.
Harvard Envy
Why Too Many Colleges Overshoot
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Harvard Envy is a chapter excerpt from Change.edu coming out October 18, 2011.
Exploring the limitations of the exclusive, tradition-bound world of higher education, innovator Andrew S. Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., delivers a vision for making a world-class college experience available...
«Covenant Keeper»
Derrick Bells Enduring Education Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Although he spent his career as a lawyer and law school professor, Derrick Bell had a profound impact on the field of education in the area of educational equity. Among many accomplishments, Bell was the first African American to earn tenure at the Harvard Law School; he also established a new course...
One Day, All Children...
The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children... , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college...
by Beverley H Johns
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
When you're teaching students who have special needs, what are your legal responsibilities? How can you provide appropriate, legally compliant special education services—and avoid pitfalls that could lead to due process hearings and court dates? Turn to this interactive quick guide for concise,...
Critics of State Education
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Since at least the days of ancient Sparta, governments have sought to control the educational process. By influencing the education of their citizens, governments hope to produce loyal subjects. Yet everywhere, at all times, men and women of independent mind and will have resisted and opposed state education....