Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Lesson Study and Schools as Learning Communities
Asian School Reform in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
School as Learning Community (SLC), or Lesson Study for Learning Community (LSLC) represents an approach to lesson study that emerged in Japan in the 1990s and which has been studied intensively by educators and researchers worldwide to establish democratic learning communities for teachers and students...
Worth Striking For
Why Education Policy is Every Teacher's Concern (Lessons from Chicago)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Written by activist educators, Worth Striking For speaks to teachers and teachers-to-be about the drastic changes in the landscape of public education in recent decades and focuses on what they need to know about the debates and complex issues of reform affecting their lives and professions.The...
Hard Questions on Global Educational Change
Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new book, from internationally renowned education scholar Pasi Sahlberg and his colleagues, focuses on some of the most controversial issues in contemporary education reform around the world. The authors devote a chapter to each of these “hard questions”:Does parental choice improve...
by Frederick M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess distills knowledge from twenty-five years of working in and around school reform. Inspired by his conversations with young, would-be reformers who are passionate about transforming education, the book offers a window into Hess’s thinking...
Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice
Change Without Reform in American Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A book that explores the problematic connection between education policy and practice while pointing in the direction of a more fruitful relationship, Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice is a provocative culminating statement from one of America’s most insightful education scholars and leaders.
Inside...
Strife and Progress
Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing-and stubborn-public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the "portfolio strategy" for...
I Got Schooled
The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools.
Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation...
"Proof," Policy, and Practice
Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
How can we “fix” our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them.Academics,...
Adaptive Education
An Inquiry-Based Institution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The obstacles that prevent the latest educational research reaching the classroom are daunting: few channels to communicate the results of educational research, fewer opportunities for teachers to participate in research themselves, and little support for honing a scientific approach to teaching.
The...
Curriculum Reform in Ontario
'Common-Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This first full account of curriculum policy formulation in 1990s Ontario helps readers understand the real-life experiences of policymakers both within the province and internationally.
Having worked as a policy analyst for the Government of Ontario, a public school teacher, and a university...
Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders
Theory, design and practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders focusses on major issues relating to the continuing national and international discourse on curriculum leadership, and highlights the vital role of middle leaders in schools. School leadership has focused primarily on first-order change involving school leaders...
School Education in India
Market, State and Quality
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This volume examines how the public and private domains in school education in India are informed and mediated by current market realities. It moves beyond the simplistic dichotomy of pro-state versus promarket factors that define most current debates in the formulations of educational reform agendas...
An Agenda for Equity
Responding to the Needs of Diverse Learners
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
The vast numbers of new educational policies, programs, and practices being implemented as educational reform in American public schools have not been analyzed for short or long-term effectiveness or impact on students and their learning. Not only are conditions for many learners still a concern,...
Systems of Reason and the Politics of Schooling
School Reform and Sciences of Education in the Tradition of Thomas S. Popkewitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The 1980s were an important decade for educational inquiry. It was the moment of the “linguistic turn,” with its emphasis on the role of language as a constructor of reality, a structuring agent for institutions such as schools, and a medium for translating knowledge into elements of power for...