Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Globalization and Japanese Exceptionalism in Education
Insiders' Views into a Changing System
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is trying...
Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City
Stories of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In cities across the nation, communities of color find themselves resisting state disinvestment and the politics of dispossession. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several New Orleans high schools—takes on this struggle through a close examination of race and schools....
Encountering Education in the Global
The selected works of Fazal Rizvi
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable...
by Ann Lutz Fernandez, Catherine Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This beautifully written book highlights working teachers speaking on many key educational problems under debate as well as many of the controversial solutions put forth, including revamped teacher evaluations, curricular standardization, and increased testing and data collection. Anthropologist Catherine...
Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform
Science, Education, and Making Society by Making the Child
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform, noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn-of-the-century and contemporary pedagogical reforms while illuminating their complex relation to cosmopolitanism. Popkewitz highlights how policies that include "all children" and leave "no...
The Misdirection of Education Policy
Raising Questions about School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The Misdirection of Education Policy: Raising Questions about School Reform proposes critically important questions about the wisdom of American public education policy and reform initiatives. Laying out the particulars of three policy strands—creation of STEM curricula/schools, expansion of charter...
Improving Schools and Educational Systems
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement.
This...
Doing More with Less
Making Colleges Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
This volume contains a collection of papers by economists which examine the various strategies for cutting costs and improving productivity in higher education in the United States. The dramatic increase in the cost of attending most colleges and universities in recent years has led to increasing...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Globalization and Change in Higher Education
The Political Economy of Policy Reform in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century. With a sustained focus on the national level of policy implementation, institutional change is considered in relationship to broader trends in economic development...
Schoolhouse of Cards
An Inside Story of No Child Left Behind and Why America Needs a Real Education Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
As the Obama Administration wrestles with the impending reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the continuing need for education reform, Eugene Hickok provides an insider's account of this historic legislation. A former key player in the Department of Education during the Bush administration,...
Neoliberal Transformation of Education in Turkey
Political and Ideological Analysis of Educational Reforms in the Age of the AKP
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Neoliberal policies have had an impact on educational systems globally. This book provides a detailed and critical analysis of neoliberal educational policies and reforms in Turkey by focusing on the Justice and Development Party's reform efforts over the last eight years.
The Algebra Solution to Mathematics Reform
Completing the Equation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can we increase mathematics achievement among all students? This book provides a straightforward explanation of how changing mathematics tracking policies to provide algebra instruction to all students by at least eighth grade can bring about changes in both student achievement and teacher performance.Spielhagen...
Resisting Reform
Reclaiming Public Education through Grassroots Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This book is a poignant celebration of grassroots empowerment as our contributors, people who just a short time ago thought of themselves as ordinary citizens, document their call to action when their children and their profession are on the line. Practicing teachers and parents who see the direct...