Educational Reform category: 2687 books
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?
And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2004
Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic...
Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children
A Science of Performance Model for Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust ‘science of performance’ model of school change based on a specified process of...
Radical Equality in Education
Starting Over in U.S. Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Tinkering with the current educational system from within has not provided a just and equitable education for all children. In this book, acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling. Proposing that what is needed is a new purpose that...
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...
Helping Educators Grow
Strategies and Practices for Leadership Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
How can we prepare practicing and aspiring education leaders for the complex, adaptive challenges they face? In Helping Educators Grow, Eleanor Drago-Severson presents a new approach to leadership development.
Too often, she argues, we teach leadership development the same way we teach world...
Bridging the Gaps
College Pathways to Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
College-for-all has become the new American dream. Most high school students today express a desire to attend college, and 90% of on-time high school graduates enroll in higher education in the eight years following high school. Yet, degree completion rates remain low for non-traditional students—students...
The New Education
How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past--and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change
Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments,...
Transformational Teaching
The Key <Br>To Authentic <Br>School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
Spencer Barnard, the father of five self-actualizing children, is a lifelong educator with experience as a classroom teacher, principal, district level administrator, educational publisher and college administrator. In this latter position he guided the development of an innovative master's degree...
Distributed School Leadership
Developing Tomorrow's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Tomorrow’s schools will need new forms of leadership. The old hierarchical models of leadership simply do not fit any longer. We need to develop new leaders at all levels of the system if we are serious about sustaining improvement and change. But, how do we go about this?
The book focuses...
by Anna Fielding
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Educational issues have been discussed during the presidential campaign. The concern is the state of education in the United States. Why the American students score lower than many other countries in international tests?Why the American students are not interested in science and math? Why their scores...
by Daniel Muijs, Mel Ainscow, Chris Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Collaboration and networking have recently come to the fore as major school improvement strategies in a number of countries. A variety of initiatives, from government and other agencies, have encouraged collaboration and led to a lot of practical activity in this area. However, at present there are...
The Triple Focus
A New Approach to Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge provide educators with a rationale for incorporating three core skill sets in the classroom—understanding self, other, and the larger systems within which we operate—and show why these competencies are needed to help students navigate a fast-paced world of increasing...
One Size Does Not Fit All
Acknowledging and Addressing What’s Wrong with American Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Academic success requires talent (ability), which is not equally distributed among students. Almost all American undergraduates hail from K–12 public schools, based on the theory that everyone is academically educable. This has led to the one-size-fits-all system, which has underserved the less...
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between...