Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Making Schools Work
A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Educ
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Introducing a bold, persuasive new argument into the national debate over education, Dr. William Ouchi describes a revolutionary approach to creating successful public schools.
This program has produced significant, lasting improvements in the school districts where it has already been implemented....
by Ezeoke, Alphonsus Emeka
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
This book is an educational piece and a thoroughly researched contribution in the 21st century Nigeria. I recommend it to all lovers of education. The Education Ministers, Boards and other relevant bodies have to read this. University Dons would find Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Alphonsus Ezeokes book exceptionally...
The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship
Possibilities for School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education.
In the course of exploring these challenges, the book considers a number of crucial issues and circumstances: existing “barriers to entry”...
Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.
Contexts and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Poverty is an educational issue because it affects children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Especially in current times, taken-for-granted ideas about poverty and poor children must be scrutinized and reconsidered. That is the goal of this book.
Poverty and Schooling in the...
Curriculum and the Teacher
35 years of the Cambridge Journal of Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Even though the curriculum can be tightly specified and controlled by strong accountability mechanisms, it is teachers who decisively shape the educational experiences of children and young people at school.
Bringing together seminal papers from the Cambridge Journal of Education around the...
Controls and Choices
The Educational Marketplace and the Failure of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Many activists and writers have ascribed continuing racial segregation in American schools to a failure of will. In this view, forced transfers of students and other aggressive judicially mandated policies would lead to greater equality in education if only legislators and judges had the will to continue...
Learning from the Federal Market?Based Reforms
Lessons for ESSA
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top?down, market?focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice. The new Every Student Succeeds Act continues along this path, though with decision?making authority now shifted toward the states. These...
External Influences and the Educational Landscape
Analysis of Political, Economic, Geographic, Health and Demographic Factors in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
While the analysis is not the first to investigate empirically the effects of different individual or household factors on school access and completion of Ghanaians, it extends previous work by simultaneously incorporating individual, household, community, regional and national characteristics...
A Political Sociology of Educational Knowledge
Studies of Exclusions and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Bringing together the sociology of knowledge, cultural studies, and post-foundational and historical approaches, this book asks what schooling does, and what are its limits and dangers. The focus is on how the systems of reason that govern schooling embody historically generated rules and standards...
Market Movements
African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Winner of the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as...
Troublemaker
A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Futures of School Reform represents the culminating work of a three-year discussion among national education leaders convened by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Based on the recognition that current education reform efforts have reached their limits, the volume maps out a variety...
The Fog of Reform
Getting Back to a Place Called School
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
American public education has been on a merry-go-round of change for the past 40 years. We made something that is complex by its very nature into a strangled enterprise that is becoming even more knotty and complicated. A fog of reform is created obscuring issues and deflecting our focus from the...
Reform Versus Dreams
Preventing Student Failure
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
School change has been at center of school reform, and many schools have moved to meet the needs of students in various areas. In many instances, there has been only one addition to the school system to serve as the element of school change. Today's school communities need a deeper understanding not...