Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by John I. Goodlad, Robert H. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since its first publication in 1959, The Nongraded Elementary School has become a classic in school reform literature. This reissue includes a retrospective introduction on what happened to nongraded alternatives in the aftermath of “Sputnik” educational reforms, what is occurring amid the current...
The Graveyard of School Reform
Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The Graveyard of School Reform: Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas explores the critical role resistance plays in defeating valued programs for students, parents, and staff. It is time for education reformers to face the hard truths about the skilled and destructive forces of resisters and...
Reform Doesn't Work
Grassroots Efforts Can Provide Answers to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Where does education happen? In classrooms. Teachers can provide the ultimate reform of education and teachers can be the ultimate reformers of education. Still, teachers cannot create all of the needed improvements in education alone. Input from, involvement from, ideas from, and participation from...
Where Charter School Policy Fails
The Problems of Accountability and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this provocative volume, Amy Stuart Wells and her co-authors provide evidence that the laissez-faire policies of charter school reform often exacerbate existing inequalities in our schools.
Providing the most comprehensive, critical review of charter schools to date, this timely volume is...
Leadership for Change
The Singapore Schools' Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
The book shares stories of the role of school leadership in Singapore, with case studies from selected schools, that provides some insights on how Singapore delivers a high-quality education that had led to it achieving high rankings in TIMMS and PISA. This book will provide both the historical and...
Popular Educational Classics
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems in evaluating and acting upon school policies and practices. This illuminating book untangles many of the...
Failure Up Close
What Happens, Why It Happens, and What We Can Learn from It
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
For many reasons, failure in education reform is rarely admitted. Even though it is incredibly hard work to try and improve the enormous and diverse American education system, because there are political consequences of admitting that a particular effort did not live up to its promises and pressure...
by Nicholas Tampio
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity
Nicholas Tampio watched as his kindergartner’s class shifted from one where teachers, aides, parents, and students worked hard to create a rewarding educational experience to one in which teachers delivered hours-long lectures using...
Education for Liberation
The Politics of Promise and Reform Inside and Beyond America’s Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Almost 650,000 men and women, approximately the size of the city of Memphis, TN, return home from prison every year. Oftentimes with some pocket change and a bus ticket, they reenter society and struggle to find work, housing, a supportive social network. Economic barriers, the stigma of a felony...
Addicted to Reform
A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America’s misguided approaches to K-12 school reform
During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in...
Assault on Kids and Teachers
Countering Privatization, Deficit Ideologies and Standardization in U.S. Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the “public” out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education. Contributors,...
by Jennifer Little
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Seeds for Change: Education Reform in Context is not a step-by-step manual for change of K-12 and Higher Education. It is the beginning point for discussions that will affect everyone in the global economy. A service-industry approach to education reform could not only identify and help fix the broken...
Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum
From Policy to Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This volume provides a multi-faceted and critical analysis of the Singapore curriculum in relation to globalization. First, it details reform initiatives established by the Singapore government to meet the challenges posed by globalization. Next, Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum presents...
Rightist Multiculturalism
Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
For nearly two decades, E. D. Hirsch’s book Cultural Literacy has provoked debate over whose knowledge should be taught in schools, embodying the culture wars in education. Initially developed to mediate against the multicultural "threat," his educational vision inspired the Core Knowledge...