Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Education Is Upside-Down
Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Education Is Upside Down cuts through adjustments being made at technical levels of educational practice and accountability, challenging ideals and philosophies that have powered American Education for most of the last century. This book explains how and why long-standing approaches generate flawed...
Decolonizing Education
Nourishing the Learning Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation...
Education in the Best Interests of the Child
A Children's Rights Perspective on Closing the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
A large body of research in disciplines from sociology and policy studies to neuroscience and educational psychology has confirmed that socioeconomic status remains the most powerful influence on children’s educational outcomes. Socially disadvantaged children around the world disproportionately...
by Leonidas Kyriakides, Bert Creemers, Evi Charalambous
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each...
Demythologizing Educational Reforms
Responses to the Political and Corporate Takeover of Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
There are dozens of myths surrounding educational reform today, maintaining the school’s role in economic competitiveness, the deficiency of teachers, the benefits of increased testing, and the worthiness of privatization. In this volume, the editors argue that this discussion has been co-opted...
Imagining the Future of Global Education
Dreams and Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Imagining the Future of Global Education examines the Grand Educational Narrative (GEN) and the major institutions that shape and disseminate it. The book focuses on national visions of education and the imaginary futures that nations seek to make reality. It critiques how the GEN policy implementation...
The Hope for American School Reform
The Cold War Pursuit of Inquiry Learning in Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The Hope of American School Reform tells the story of the origins of the reform in science and math education. The book is drawn, in part, on new research from previously untapped archival sources. The aim of this work is to contribute to our understanding of a major effort to reform school curricula.
by Kevin K. Kumashiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He convincingly demonstrates...
The Ambitious Elementary School
Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequalities and initiate opportunities for economic and civic...
Educational Policies and Youth in the 21st Century
Problems, Potential, and Progress
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
As our student population diversifies rapidly, there is a critical need to better understand how national, regional, and/or local policies impact youth in school settings. In many cases, educational policies constructed with the goal of helping youth often have the unintended consequence of inhibiting...
The Literacy Game
The Story of The National Literacy Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Containing invaluable insights from the original director of the National Literary Strategy (NLS) and its director of training, this book provides the only systematic exploration of the reform programme.
A vital introduction and critical appraisal for pracititioners and students, The Literacy...
Race to the Bottom
Corporate School Reform and the Future of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How did the country that invented the modern public school end up embracing policies that weaken it? What alternatives are there to current corporate reform policies? How can we give America’s children an education that will truly prepare them and our nation for the challenges of tomorrow? In Race...
New Money For Old Rope
The Disintegration and Systematic Rape Of Public Education by Big Business, the Government, and Corrupt Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Everybody knows that the truth can be hurtful, but It is time that the public becomes aware of what is really going on in the schools, and why we will never achieve true reform until we remove the fraudulent administrative system that keeps teachers in virtual servitude. New Money For Old Rope is written...
Battling the Student Engagement Front
Fresh Tactics in a Tortured Turnaround Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
The school finance debate has profoundly shaped the educational reform landscape over the past four decades. Most conspicuously, judges level billion dollar decrees based on scant and conflicting findings. This book sought to explore whether school funding practices satisfy the equity and adequacy...