Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Higher Education Reform: Looking Back Looking Forward
Second Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
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...
Capitalisms Educational Catastrophe
And the Advancing Endgame Revolt!
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of localized resistance(s). This book examines the perilous catastrophe before us, and the possibility that we can reclaim our rights as citizens and redefine...
Tyranny of the Textbook
An Insider Exposes How Educational Materials Undermine Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Educational reforms and standards have been a topic of public debate for decades, with the latest go-round being the State Common Core Curriculum Standards. But time and again those reforms have failed, and each set of standards, no matter how new and different, has had little impact on improving...
The Finnish Education Mystery
Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools...
Beyond Obsolete
How to Upgrade Classroom Practice and School Structure
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Americans have seen it all in education over the last twenty years: charter schools, vouchers, private schools, ever-changing sets of technology, increased funding for schools, decreased funding for schools, accountability measures for teachers, and on and on. These schemes never seem to make any...
The Hidden Role of Software in Educational Research
Policy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Educational research often discounts the uniqueness and ubiquity of software and the hidden political, economic and epistemological ways it impacts teaching and learning in K-12 settings. Drawing on theories and methodologies from English education, critical discourse analysis, multimodal semiotics...
by Bob Lingard, Wayne Martino, Goli Rezai-Rashti
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Globalizing Educational Accountabilities analyzes the influence that international and national testing and accountability regimes have on educational policy reform efforts in schooling systems around the world. Tracing the evolution of those regimes, with an emphasis on the OECD’s PISA, it reveals...
by Neil Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
This book engages with the political, philosophical and policy debates around contemporary democratic socialism and state education. It examines contemporary education and education systems, as well as democratic socialism in the context of the complex political world we live in currently. It takes...
"Multiplication Is for White People"
Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
From the MacArthur Award–winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People’s Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America’s public schools
As MacArthur Award–winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us—and as...
by Michael Fullan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Award-winning author and educational reform expert Michael Fullan shows how to achieve successful local and systemic school reform through the strength of shared leadership.
Challenging Standards
Navigating Conflict and Building Capacity in the Era of the Common Core
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The Common Core State Standards are at the center of the latest firestorm in American education reform. But this is not the nation’s first torrid experience with standards implementation. In Challenging Standards, Jonathan Supovitz and James Spillane bring together the collective knowledge of top...
Teacher and Student Evaluation
Moving Beyond the Failure of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Following the recent major school reform of Race to the Top, schools, teachers, and students are increasingly evaluated through high-stakes achievement test scores. In six concise chapters, Teacher and Student Evaluation explores the historical rise and modern landscape of accountability in American...
Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education
What's at Stake?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the promise and the performance of charter schools. The authors do not defend the public school system, which for decades has failed primarily poor children of color. Instead, they use empirical evidence...
High-Stakes Schooling
What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we...