Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Derek Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In an effort to address the problems confronting the American education system, the Obama administration has issued structural and systematic reforms such as Race to the Top. These initiatives introduce new statistics and accountability systems to gauge what constitutes "good" teaching,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
How Stakeholders Can Support Teacher Quality compiles the proceedings from the Milken Family Foundation's National Education Conference (NEC), which took place in Washington, D.C., in May 2006. Each year, the NEC brings together practitioners, policymakers and private sector representatives to focus...
Reclaiming Education
Moving Beyond the Culture of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book is an appeal to those directly and indirectly involved in education reform to reconsider the very nature of education as a process of transformation and not, as the neoliberal corporate model insists upon, as a “product.” By using Paulo Freire’s fundamental principle of understanding...
Burning Cash
How Costly Public School Failures have Charred the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With the Common Core poised to markedly amplify the accountability stakes in public education, the pressure to post steep outcomes gains has never been fiercer. Unsurprisingly, flashy and expensive school improvement initiatives that promise quick fix solutions have become pervasively en vogue across...
by Yong Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Yong Zhao shines a light on the long-ignored phenomenon of side effects of education policies and practices, bringing a fresh and perhaps surprising perspective to evidence-based practices and policies. Identifying the adverse effects of some of the “best” educational interventions with examples...
by Bruns, Barbara; Filmer, Deon; Patrinos
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
This book is about the threats to education quality in the developing world that cannot be explained by lack of resources. It reviews the observed phenomenon of service delivery failures in public education: cases where programs and policies increase the inputs to education but do not produce effective...
Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States
A Critical Perspective on Evidence-Based Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education...
Education in Japan
A Comprehensive Analysis of Education Reforms and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This book illustrates the nature of Japan’s education system and identifies its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the socioeconomic environment surrounding education in contemporary Japanese society. It describes the basic institutional structure of each educational stage, in an overview of today’s...
Rethinking 21st Century Diversity in Teacher Preparation, K-12 Education, and School Policy
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This book offers educators new understandings of 21st century diversity emerging from contemporary national events within the U.S., global movements, and changes in the world political order that have long-lasting impact on local education and call for rethinking traditional generalizations and empirical...
by F. James Rutherford, Andrew Ahlgren
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 1991
In order to compete in the modern world, any society today must rank education in science, mathematics, and technology as one of its highest priorities. It's a sad but true fact, however, that most Americans are not scientifically literate. International studies of educational performance reveal that...
Waiting for ""SUPERMAN""
How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Each book includes a 15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need.
The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have...
Reclaiming the Game
College Sports and Educational Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about...
School Wars
The Battle for Britain's Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from successive governments.
Now, with the growing...
Education to Better Their World
Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his most visionary book, internationally renowned educator Marc Prensky presents a compelling alternative to how and what we teach our children. Drawing on emerging world trends, he elaborates a comprehensive vision for K–12 education that includes new goals, new means, a new curriculum, a new...