Educational Reform category: 2687 books
A School in Trouble
A Personal Story of Central Falls High School
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
During and after his term as interim Central Falls superintendent in 2006-2007, Bill Holland sought answers to why some Central Falls High School students had school success while over half of their classmates failed to graduate. Much can be learned from how these students survived in a chronically...
Starting Up
Critical Lessons from 10 New Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Starting Up is a collection of first-person accounts by some of the best-known founders of new schools in America. Providing the kind of knowledge that only experience can teach, it is an invaluable resource for anyone in the process of or thinking about opening a new school, as well as those interested...
Faces of Discrimination in Higher Education in India
Quota policy, social justice and the Dalits
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book illuminates the experiences of a set of students and faculty who are members of the Dalit caste – commonly known as the ‘untouchables’ – and are relatively ‘successful’ in that they attend or are academics at a prestigious university. The book provides a background to the study,...
Education and Global Cultural Dialogue
A Tribute to Ruth Hayhoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Cultural and spiritual resources are arguably essential to achievement of educational goals, both as economic and political initiatives and as human rights. This book addresses questions surrounding education and inter-cultural understanding in a broad global framework.
U.S. Latinos and Education Policy
Research-Based Directions for Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
With the American dream progressively elusive for and exclusive of Latinos, there is an urgent need for empirically and conceptually based macro-level policy solutions for Latino education. Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based...
Religion in the Primary School
Ethos, diversity, citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Religion and its relationship to schooling is an issue that has become more and more topical in recent years. In many countries, developments such as the diversification of state school sectors, concerns about social cohesion between ethnic and religious groups, and debates about national identity...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who “drag down” their grade average on the state report card. This book describes the current state of the...
Education Flashpoints
Fighting for America’s Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Drawing on his widely read Huffington Post columns—rated one of the top educational blogs in the United States—Alan Singer introduces readers to contemporary issues in education in the United States. The issues are presented with a point of view and an edge intended to promote widespread classroom...
Our Underachieving Colleges
A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve...
Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education
Transformative Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The concept of "standards" seems antithetical to the ways critical educators are dedicated to teaching, but what would "standards" look like if they were generated from social justice perspectives and through collaborative and inclusive processes? Such is the central question posed...
Schooling Poor Minority Children
New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Schooling Poor Minority Children: New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era explores the 'redesign of school segregation' and explains why resegregation of schools in the post-Brown era is so destructive for poor minority students. The book provides an answer to why schools that serve predominately poor...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. The thrilling scholarship...
Education for All
The Future of Education and Training for 14-19 Year-Olds
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or attainment:
What counts as an educated 19 year old today?
Are the models of education we have inherited from the past sufficient to meet...
Education and the Labour Government
An Evaluation of Two Terms
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book presents a valuable and authoritative evaluation of the real impact Labour’s two terms have had on the British education system.
On the 1st May 1997 the British electorate witnessed a watershed moment. After an eighteen year Conservative rule, a New Labour government took office....