Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book explores Conditional Cash Transfers programs within the context of education policy over the past several decades. Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) provide cash to poor families upon the fulfillment of conditions related to the education and health of their children. Even though...
Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization
The Selected Works of Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education. Throughout his work he has explored the attempts to use education to advance the economic and political interests...
Bridging the Higher Education Divide
Strengthening Community Colleges and Restoring the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Education has always been a key driver in our nation’s struggle to promote social mobility and widen the circle of people who can enjoy the American Dream. No set of educational institutions better embodies the promise of equal opportunity than community colleges. Two-year colleges have opened the...
Opportunity and Hope
Transforming Children's Lives through Scholarships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The U.S. education system is not meeting the needs of all our children, especially those who are economically disadvantaged. For too many families, income level and ZIP code determine the quality of education available to their children. The need to give all children access to a good education, a...
Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South
Challenges for policy, practice and research
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of education, particularly for the most disadvantaged,...
Shaping Education Policy
Power and Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Shaping Education Policy is a comprehensive overview of education politics and policy, which provides conceptual guideposts for future policy development and strategies for change. Leading scholars explore the interacting social processes and the dynamics of power politics as they intersect with democratic...
by Denny Geraghty
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Teachers--Ever Feel Like You're Losing the War to Educate Your Students?
In our current educational climate of Common Core, test scores, and teacher evaluations, have you ever wondered--what about the students?
Even though graduation rates have increased in recent years, are the young...
Getting It Right
Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing What's Broken
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Getting it Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing What’s Broken challenges citizens of this nation to right the wrongs in public education by elevating the graduation rate and by equipping every graduate with saleable skills for gainful employment in the marketplace and with foundation skills for...
by Errol Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In "Marking Milestones: 21 Keynote Speeches about Successful Institutions and Outstanding Leaders", Professor Errol Miller addresses fundamental issues through the lens of these institutions and explores the unprecedented sacrifices made by some of our most often unheralded leaders. These speeches, written...
Educating Youth for a World Beyond Violence
A Pedagogy for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
In a time of unprecedented social and economic crisis, this book represents a challenge to the orthodoxy that shapes our vision of educational purpose. It argues that now, more than ever, there is a moral imperative for educators to assume responsibility for helping to bring about a culture of peace and non-violence.
Controversies in Education
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This book is the outcome of a colloquium series organized by The University of Sydney in which leading and emerging researchers were invited to name what they took to be the deep flaws at the heart of contemporary educational and policy and practice in Australia and globally — to voice their potentially...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This volume offers both theoretical and research-based accounts from mothers in academia who must balance their own intricate knowledge of school systems, curriculum and pedagogy with their children’s education and school lives. It explores the contextual advantages and disadvantages of "knowing...
by Ronald Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
There is no single idea of the university. Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to the scientific university, and then to the corporate and the entrepreneurial university. But what, then, might lie...
Thinking Comprehensively About Education
Spaces of Educative Possibility and their Implications for Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. Thinking Comprehensively About Education sheds much-needed light...