Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Peter S. Temes
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
In the midst of the continuing controversy over the right ways to bring change to American schools, Peter Temes's book is a firebell in the night. In Against School Reform Mr. Temes sets out a straightforward prescription for our schools which centers on the life of the individual teacher and rejects...
Pathways to Reform
Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest university
Change is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic...
by Bill Hiatt
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
No one would ever think of creating new medical protocols without input from doctors, yet we constantly try to reform education without serious input from teachers. Worse, with teachers typically marginalized, the process is often dominated by politicians who view education with one eye--and sometimes...
Governance Reforms in European University Systems
The Case of Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book examines governance reforms in higher education in six European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal. It focuses in particular on the governance of the systems and institutions in these countries. The book shows that each of the national reform processes...
Reforming Legal Education
Law Schools at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In today’s volatile law school environment, curriculum reform has emerged as a significant focus. It is commonly understood that law schools effectively teach certain analytical skills, but are less successful in other areas, and often scramble to adapt to evolving aims. This book demonstrates how...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book represents a set of critical analyses of educational reforms where issues of transnational governance are of vital concern. It focuses on different aspects of, and practices in educational reform-making, and in particular on governing techniques and the working of new agencies such as supranational...
Achieving the Radical Reform of Special Education
Essays in Honor of James M. Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
As a tribute to scholar and mentor James M. Kauffman and his prodigious influence on the education of children and youth with disabilities, Achieving the Radical Reform of Special Education highlights and examines issues central to the continued growth and maturation of the field of special education....
Schoolhouse Shams
Myths and Misinformation in School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the...
Confessions of a Bad Teacher
The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late.
When John Owens left a lucrative job to teach English at a public school in New York City's South...
by Jerry McBeath, Maria Elena Reyes, Mary Ehrlander
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Education Reform in the American States is a timely evaluation of the accountability movement in American public education, culminating in the No Child Left Behind Act, federal legislation of 2002. The authors treat the current accountability movement, placing it in historical context and addressing...
Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools?
New Strategies for Educational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Despite more than 15 years of effort, it is widely acknowledged that internal reform of the public schools has produced little, if any, success. This has led to renewed interest in alternative forms of educational delivery to devolve decision-making through charter schools, public and private voucher...
Transforming Education In Egypt
Western Influence and Domestic Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Basic education-considered essential for building democratic societies and competitive economies-has headed the agendas of development agencies in recent years. During the same period, Egypt topped the lists of recipients of development assistance and proclaimed education to be its national project....
by Jill Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser, this book offers a critical view of contemporary educational leadership and reform discourses, exploring how her key concepts of redistribution, recognition and representation may apply to social and therefore educational justice.
Fraser offers a political...
Educational Entrepreneurship
Realities, Challenges, Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This lively and provocative book introduces this burgeoning field for readers concerned with K-12 education in the United States--and with efforts to reform and improve it.
Entrepreneurship has emerged in recent years as an unprecedented and influential force in U.S. K-12 education. Yet the...