Educational Reform category: 2687 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This revised edition of the Handbook of Education Politics and Policy presents the latest research and theory on the most important topics within the field of the politics of education. Well-known scholars in the fields of school leadership, politics, policy, law, finance, and educational reform examine...
Education Reform
Confronting the Secular Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education. It challenges “secular education” as a failed educational model and proposes an alternate model with farreaching potential. It reveals how secular schools have insufficient resources to support the public’s educational...
Social Context Reform
A Pedagogy of Equity and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Currently, both the status quo of public education and the "No Excuses" Reform policies are identical. The reform offers a popular and compelling narrative based on the meritocracy and rugged individualism myths that are supposed to define American idealism. This volume will refute this...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day. Drawing on evidence of both cultural encounters and internal drivers for...
Mapping the Terrain of Education Reform
Global trends and local responses in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This book envisions the formulation of critical perspectives on education reform using the Philippine experience, recognizing the need to address relevant issues and challenges particularly in an increasingly globalized twenty-first century setting. A specific education reform project, the Leaders...
Teachers, Teaching, and Reform
Perspectives on Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Comprised of contributions from distinguished education scholars, Teachers, Teaching, and Reform takes a critical look at evidence about systemic efforts to identify excellent teachers and promote excellent teaching practices. Organized to include diverse and often contrasting perspectives on the...
Great Leaders Equal Great Schools
Alliances and Discourse for Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The networks of Tennessee politicians, school leaders, and academics are rife with significant contributors to the national fabric of educational reform. This cadre includes Former White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, United States Senator Bill Frist (currently Chairman of the Tennessee State...
by Ming Yang, Hao Ni
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
This book presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the educational governance reform trajectory and the latest issues in China, addressing several important topics such as administration, internal management, provision, enrollment, employment, financing, examinations, evaluation and quality...
by Guangli Zhou, Xiang Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2019
This book examines educational development and reform in contemporary China and focuses on some of the major issues facing education in both rural and urban areas, across the spectrum of primary, secondary, higher, adult and vocational educational pathways. The book reflects on Chinese educational...
Fear and Learning in America
Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this moving account*, *“America’s Superintendent” John Kuhn lays bare the scare tactics at the root of the modern school “reform” movement. Kuhn conveys a deeply held passion for the mission and promise of public education through his own experience as a school administrator in Texas....
Finding Superman
Debating the Future of Public Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“This book is an essential supplement for everyone who saw the movie Waiting for Superman. It makes clear that education improvement is more complex, and requires more change in policy and practice, than Superman ever envisioned. It is a roadmap for more comprehensive transformation of education.”—Michael...
Radical Reforms
Perspectives on an era of educational change
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
This book draws on the lessons from one of the most intensive periods of educational reform in any country during recent times. The post-1997 English experience, under a New Labour government, is used to illustrate the opportunities and challenges associated with attempting to develop a world class...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Federal and state funding agencies have invested billions of dollars into secondary STEM (Science, Technology, Education, Mathematics) educational reform over the past decade. This volume addresses the interplay of external and internal variables associated with school reform and how this dynamic has impacted many efforts.
Chinese Elementary Education System Reform in Rural, Pastoral, Ethnic, and Private Schools
Six Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book introduces Chinese educational reforms and developments rolled out in the year 2014, examining them from both macro and micro perspectives and pursuing a mixed-methods approach.
This book depicts the current landscape of the Chinese education system and institutions on different educational...