Educational Reform category: 2687 books
El sistema educativo mexicano
La transición de fin de siglo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Carlos Ornelas logra una recuperación histórica del sistema educativo mexicano; expone sus facetas contradictorias; brinda un panorama de su transición, y analiza los resultados en el aprendizaje de los alumnos. Esta segunda edición incluye un nuevo prólogo y un apéndice sobre los cambios surgidos en torno a la educación básica durante los últimos 15 años.
Why Meadow Died
The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable are being forced into public schools across America.
“After my sister Meadow was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the media obsessed for months about...
Creating Innovators
The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
From a prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is today’s most essential real-world skill and what young people need from parents, teachers, and employers to become the innovators of America’s future.
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by Clark Aldrich
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
While most schools continue to resist change, homeschooling families have abandoned the K-12 system and identified new, powerful, commonsense methods and goals for childhood education.Education expert Clark Aldrich has explored the practices of homeschoolers and unschoolers (those who eschew...
The Teacher Wars
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.
Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,...
God vs. Darwin
The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In God vs. Darwin, Mano Singham dissects the legal battle between evolution and creationism in the classroom beginning with the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 and ending with an intelligent design trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, in 2005. A publicity stunt, the Scopes Monkey trial had less to do with legal...
Club College
Why So Many Universities Look Like Resorts
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Club College is a chapter excerpt from Change.edu coming out October 18, 2011.
On college campuses nationwide, luxury and learning go hand-in-hand, keeping the price tag for higher education out of reach for many Americans. Education innovator, and chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., Andrew S....
The Education Apocalypse
How It Happened and How to Survive It
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
For decades, the U.S. invested ever-growing fortunes into its antiquated K-12 education system in exchange for steadily worse outcomes. At the same time, Americans spent more than they could afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit that fueled the housing crisis. The graduates of...
College Disrupted
The Great Unbundling of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS") over...
America Needs Talent
Attracting, Educating & Deploying the 21st-Century Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
"This book should be on the desk of every 2016 Presidential candidate." —Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New AmericaWith falling wages and rising inequality, persistent unemployment, failing schools, and broken cities, have America’s best days come and gone?In America Needs...
Cutting School
Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Timely hot topic: With Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos, this topic will be front and center for media, parent, educators, and policymakers. Also, the book draws important connections for those seeking to understand the significance of the Black Lives Matter movement. The profits of education...
by Samuel E. Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The movement to privatize K–12 education is stronger than ever. Samuel Abrams examines the rise of market forces in public education and reveals how a commercial mindset that sidesteps fundamental challenges has taken over. Nevertheless, public schools should adopt lessons from the business world, such as raising teacher salaries to attract talent.
Practical Incident Management in K-12 Schools
How Leaders Prepare for, Respond to, and Recover from Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Practical Incident Management for Schools will help prepare every school leader for their important role in keeping students safe in their school. This book will teach you the exact same system that fire chiefs across the country have used to command emergencies for more than three decades, but with...
Education under siege
Why there is a better alternative
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
At a time when education is considered crucial to a country’s economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England’s system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather than trusted and parents cast as winners...