Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Lessons of Hope
How to Fix Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
New York Times Bestseller (Education)
The Economist Best Books of the Year Selection
In this revealing and provocative memoir, the former chancellor of the New York City schools offers the behind-the-scenes story of the city’s dramatic campaign to improve public education and an inspiring...
Who's Teaching Your Children?
Why the Teacher Crisis Is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to current reforms and is getting worse. This important book reveals the causes underlying the crisis and offers concrete, affordable...
All Systems Go
The Change Imperative for Whole System Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Based on Fullan's work with school districts and large systems in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, this resource lays out a comprehensive action plan for achieving whole system reform.
President Obama and Education Reform
The Personal and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of President Obama's education agenda. Obama's reforms have drawn skepticism from supporters of traditional public schools. Robert Maranto and Michael McShane believe that the Obama-era reforms have led to successful innovation in both the private and public sector.
Performance-Based Pay for Educators
Assessing the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides an in-depth analysis of a performance-based pay initiative and crystalizes the design issues and implementation challenges that confounded efforts to translate this promising policy into practice. This story has much to say to academics and policymakers who are trying to figure...
It's the Mission, Not the Mandates
Defining the Purpose of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book invites a conversation among stakeholders of public education and conveys the need for a common vision for America’s public schools. Amy Fast argues that we have never had a clear purpose for our schools and that now, more than ever, educators in America ache for a more inspiring purpose...
The Flickering Mind
Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works.
American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten...
University Governance and Reform
Policy, Fads, and Experience in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
The fascination with the commercial value of research, coupled with the rise of neo-liberal 'new public management' in the public sector, has led to the rise of a managerial class in the university. These essays focus on the widespread use of business models and market principles that have undermined the autonomy of the professoriate.
Small Schools
Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for...
Student Voice and School Governance
Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood. Students are rarely invited to lead school reform efforts, and when they are, their voice is silenced by the structural arrangements and socio-cultural conditions found in schools....
School Reform
The Critical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book explores a wide range of critical areas in education, examines the basic nature of our education problems, provides a clear understanding of underperformance, and proposes reasonable and effective strategies for success.
Work Hard, Be Hard
Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This book explores the ideological contexts for the creation and spread of “No Excuses” charter schools. In so doing, Work Hard, Be Hard focuses closely on the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter school chain as the most prominent exemplar for total compliance “No Excuses” schooling....
by Louis Menand
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
"Crisp and illuminating . . . well worth reading."—Wall Street Journal
The publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are...
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
One of China's leading education experts explores the best ways to create ideal schools, teachers, administrators, and education
Professor Zhu Yongxin expounds on what he believes to be ideal education. Zhu draws a blueprint for a quality education system in contemporary China and covers issues...