Educational Reform category: 2687 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources available...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume...
by Lindsay Whorton
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Teachers’ unions have long been controversial and divisive organizations, but criticism and distrust of them may be at an all-time high. This volume considers the prevailing assumption that unions successfully block change in education because they are primarily motivated to protect members’ interests....
Education Reform in the Obama Era
The Second Term and the 2016 Election
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama’s education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those...
Screwed-Up School Reform
Fixing America’s Broken Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The unspoken American promise is that each generation will lead a better, more successful life than the previous one. In earlier times, it was an education that provided the next generations a better life. For today’s children, though, decades of failed school reform have left a generation wondering...
Partnering for Progress
Boston University, the Chelsea Public Schools, and Twenty Years of Urban Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
For decades, education researchers have understood that school/university partnerships can be beneficial for education reform. K12 institutions derive benefits from working with professors and university students, and higher education institutions use local schools as sites for teacher training and...
Old School Still Matters: Lessons from History to Reform Public Education in America
Lessons from History to Reform Public Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education.
• Presents information on a topic of paramount importance, as almost...
The Privatization of Education
A Political Economy of Global Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform....
Digital Networking for School Reform
The Online Grassroots Efforts of Parent and Teacher Activists
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Presenting school reform grassroots activists - teachers, parents, and organizers alike - in their own words, the editors document the newly emerged role of digital networks of activists in school reform and analyze their efforts as acts of critical literacy.
Assessment Reform in Education
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education. A new perspective of assessment sees assessment as a means to enhance learning.
This book examines the tensions,...
Moderating the Debate
Rationality and the Promise of American Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Moderating the Debate is a major statement on education research, policy, and reform that will be required reading for everyone with a stake in improving America's schools.
This eloquent book examines the complex—and often problematic—relations between education research, policy, and practice,...
by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
The call for science curriculum reform has been made over and over again for much of the twentieth century. Arguments have been made that the content of the curriculum is not appropriate for meeting the individual and social needs of people living in the modern world; that the curriculum has become...
Misguided Education Reform
Debating the Impact on Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America’s public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school facilities, are all areas experiencing reform in the...
Public Education Reform and Network Governance
Lessons From Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
This book is located in the field of education governance and sits amidst debates on public school reform in China. It examines how a top-down policy approach has been implemented from central government right down to the district level within the public education system in China. It shows the way...