Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Ethics and Politics in School Leadership
Finding Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The authors are national school resource experts and have teamed up to write a comprehensive book on ethics and politics. It covers everything you need to know about ethical leadership and dealing with politics in schools. The book starts with an ethical framework and moves on to politics with unions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country’s economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and across publications. Education Policy in Developing...
Planning in Reverse
A Viable Approach to Organizational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Planning in Reverse is an innovative concept designed to make organizations more successful by altering the perspective utilized in the strategy process. What is needed for organizations to thrive in this new environment of change and uncertainty is a short-term approach for long-term viability. In...
US and Cross-National Policies, Practices, and Preparation
Implications for Successful Instructional Leadership, Organizational Learning, and Culturally Responsive Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
As educational policy trends converge in many countries, such as demands for greater accountability, decentralization, and more culturally sensitive practices for an increasingly diverse student body, there is growing interest in cross-national comparisons and generalizations about leadership qualities...
Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom
Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The Anglophone world is gripped by a moral panic centred on child abuse in general and fear of the paedophile in particular. Evidence suggests an alarming rise in the number of false allegations of sexual abuse being made against teachers, and demonstrates that the fallout from being falsely accused...
by Mr Ian Abbott, Michael Rathbone, Phillip Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
'A splendid read. Via interviews with several Secretaries of State for Education and a supporting analytical commentary, Education Policy provides a fascinating insight and historical appraisal of English policy rationale'
-Dr David Kitchener, Reader in Education, University of Bolton
'This...
Considering University 2-Book Bundle
Dream Factories / What to Consider If You're Considering University
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This two-book bundle is an essential handbook for any student or parent considering university. Learn why a degree is no longer a passport to success in today's job market.
Includes:
Dream Factories
The “good jobs” of the past are almost gone. Today, many university graduates face unemployment...
Considering College 2-Book Bundle
Dream Factories / What to Consider If You're Considering College
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This two-book bundle is an essential handbook for any student or parent considering college. Learn why a degree is no longer a passport to success in today's job market.
Includes:
Dream Factories
The “good jobs” of the past are almost gone. Today, many college graduates face unemployment...
High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools
Foundations for Real Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In a recent international comparative study, the United States public schools did not fare well with the rest of the world. To the disappointment of many, the No Child Left Behind law did little to improve student achievement. Nevertheless, a small pocket of poverty schools worked against the odds...
Reinventing Schools
It’s Time to Break the Mold
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Since A Nation at Risk was published in 1983, there has been widespread recognition that public education is failing in the U.S. Numerous expensive reforms have been attempted to no avail, and costs have increased dramatically. Furthermore, economic austerity requires educational systems to do more...
Learning for Life
How Continuous Education Will Keep Us Competitive in the Global Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Today’s global knowledge economy requires individuals and companies alike to quickly adapt to new tools and strategies. To remain competitive, both must continually seek out the latest advancements and developments, and upgrade their skillsets accordingly. In the United States, however, support...
Achieving Success for Kids
A Plan for Returning to Core Values, Beliefs, and Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Achieving Success for Kids is a clarion call to action that explains why we need to save America's children and return our nation and our schools to the core values, beliefs, and principles upon which our nation was founded. In this book, Tim L. Adsit presents a bold, visionary blueprint for change...
Guiding Curriculum Development
The Need to Return to Local Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Top-down mandates concerning the curriculum of the school leave no room for program creativity and program commitment. Yet principals and teachers are held accountable for student achievement results. Constitutionally, powers not granted to the United States are reserved to the States or to the people.
The...
Turning Learning Right Side Up
Putting Education Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy they ought...