Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Policy Discourses in Malaysian Education
A nation in the making
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has become a globally-recognised industrial trading partner. With a 60% Muslim population, it also enjoys the reputation of being a moderate and peaceful nation. However, with just a short time left to realising its Vision 2020 of developed nationhood, the pathway...
Square Peg
My Story and What It Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out-of-the-Box Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In the seventh grade, Todd Rose was suspended-not for the first time-for throwing six stink bombs at the blackboard, where his art teacher stood with his back to the class. At eighteen, he was a high school dropout, stocking shelves at a department store for $4.25 an hour. Today, Rose is a faculty...
Thinking Differently
An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.
In Thinking Differently, David...
Swinging Pendulums
Cautionary Tales for Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Filled with more than twenty-five essays on familiar topics to those who care for and teach young children, Swinging Pendulums is sure to stir discussion, support policy revision, and help early childhood professionals find the middle ground on issues in early childhood education. These thought- and...
Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education
The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education Series, Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, reviews the implications of new forms of academic and professional identity, which have emerged largely as a result...
Embracing Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Changing Campuses for the New Faculty Majority
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The nature of the higher education faculty workforce is radically and fundamentally changing from primarily full-time tenured faculty to non-tenure track faculty. This new faculty majority faces common challenges, including short-term contracts, limited support on campus, and lack of a professional...
by H. Perraton
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy and practice, and changing student experience, set within the context of British social and political history.
Their Name Is Today
Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
There’s hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what’s best for children are turning the tide.
Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books on education, parenting, and relationships...
Whatever It Takes
Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What would it take?
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question...
No Child Left Behind
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
While few would quarrel with the goal of the No Child Left Behind legislation, the nation is badly divided over whether the law is having a positive effect on our schools. At the same time, it is also true that most Americans, including many professional educators, have only a limited understanding...
Choices and Challenges
Charter School Performance in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused. Many studies are narrowly focused; some do not meet the standards for high-quality academic research. In this definitive work, Wohlstetter and her colleagues isolate and distill...
by Julie Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
From the very start, Americans have held widely divergent views on issues related to public schools. Many of these have to do with the methods by which we achieve an educated society. How do we ensure that our schools are accessible to all children? By what means do we hold students accountable for...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...
Too Many Children Left Behind
How Can We Close the Achievement Gap?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
In a nation that prides itself on providing equal opportunity for all, too many low-income and minority children are falling behind their peers in school. In an increasingly competitive global arena, the United States cannot afford to ignore this widening achievement gap. What can be done to close...