Educational Reform category: 2687 books
The Opportunity Equation
How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students.
Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years. And yet as debates about education rage...
by Karen Seashore Louis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Improving education is a key priority for governments around the world. While many suggestions on how best to achieve this are currently under debate, years of academic research have already revealed more about how to encourage change than is sometimes assumed.
This volume brings together for...
Our School
Searching for Community in the Era of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Almost every major American city is experimenting with school choice—a deeply controversial idea that is dramatically reshaping public education. Will the wider array of school options help parents and educators identify better strategies for helping all children learn? Or will the high stakes...
The Urban Challenge in Education
The Story of Charter School Successes in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
With the advent of charter schools in the United States, the face of public education has changed in this country. From its early beginning in Minnesota to its exponential growth in
California the charter school movement has generated much controversy. It has been praised for its accomplishments,...
Curriculum Change in Secondary Schools, 1957-2004
A curriculum roundabout?
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book is about curriculum change in secondary schools and shows how the quality of education has been affected by increasing intervention from central government. Following the story of one secondary school between 1957 and 2004, Norman Evans looks at:
* the school before and after the...
by T. Woodin, G. McCulloch, S. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age in the UK and places issues and debates in an international context.
by Robert Thornbury
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The author takes a long look at what goes on in schools, and the roles played by people specifically concerned with them: but finally the problems of the school are seen as indissolubly bound up with the changes that have overtaken urban life. The school cannot be isolated, teachers, administrators,...
by Professor Jane Martin, Professor Joyce Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole. Employing a biographical approach,...
How Schools Do Policy
Policy Enactments in Secondary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and reforms that need to beimplemented by schools. In response to this, a great deal of attentio
by Robin Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Seven authoritative contributions to the emerging field of pedagogy and to comparative, cultural and policy studies in education. A must for those who want to do more than merely comply with received versions of ‘best practice’.
Pedagogy is at last gaining the attention in English-speaking...
The Taming of Education
Evaluating Contemporary Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students. It adopts a critical approach, arguing that there is a need for students to develop critical thinking skills, be flexible...
Bad Education
The Guardian Columns
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2011
Phil Beadle has been described as The scourge of education policy makers and A prolific writer of articles challenging the status quo in education. Bad Education is an anthology of his best columns. Written in his trademark, simple, luminous and down-to-earth style, this collection is a wry look at more or less every element of educational change over the last five years.
The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education
Indebted Collegians of the Neoliberal American University
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Capturing the voices of Americans living with student debt in the United States, this collection critiques the neoliberal interest-driven, debt-based system of U.S. higher education and offers alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and the corporatized university. Grounded in an understanding of the...
School and Community Interactions
Interface for Political and Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Within the European and Asian context scientists from nine different countries are concerned with political and social interactional structures between schools as public institutions and the local political actors which influence the school environment. The contributions give answers to questions...