Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education
Processes and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best and to excel at what they do. This regularly...
by Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The growth of for-profit providers in the K–16 education sector has generated more than its share of controversy. From the emergence of charter schools to post-secondary options like the University of Phoenix, for-profit providers have been lauded for their capacity to serve historically underserved...
Collaborative School Improvement
Eight Practices for District-School Partnerships to Transform Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
How can districts bring instructional improvement to scale within and across schools?
The authors of Collaborative School Improvement argue that districts can play a powerful part in helping schools build the capacity to engage in inquiry-based reform—but that this effort requires a shift...
Renewal
Remaking America’s Schools for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools to understand...
by Scott Mendelsberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This remarkable, first-hand account reveals the impediments and challenges to educating inner-city secondary students when so much is arrayed against them and how believing in all kids helped save a school and change education in the state of Colorado. In 2 years, Principal Scott Mendelsberg took...
by Frederick Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Calls for improving education have been loud starting at the top with American presidents. Little improvement in schooling has resulted. Technology has dramatically changed and improved countless other fields but not education despite the millions of computers that schools have added in classrooms.
If...
Collective Bargaining in Education
Negotiating Change in Today's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This timely and comprehensive volume will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come.
Collective bargaining shapes the way public schools are organized, financed, staffed, and operated. Understanding collective bargaining in education...
The Origins of the Common Core
How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles.
The Irregular School
Exclusion, Schooling and Inclusive Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Should disabled students be in regular classrooms all of the time or some of the time? Is the regular school or the special school or both the solution for educating students with a wide range of differences?
Inclusive education has been incorporated in government education policy around the...
Multicultural Education in South Korea
Language, ideology, and culture in Korean language arts education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book examines the political, ideological, and socio-cultural politics underlying the 2009 National Multicultural Curriculum Reform and recent multicultural education policies in South Korea. Unlike the conservative groups in Western countries who argue that supporting cultural diversity and the...
Interventions in Education Systems
Reform and Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Interventions in Education Systems draws on research conducted in England, Mexico, Singapore and Finland to illuminate reform processes to education systems in a range of contexts, to develop a better understanding of intervention processes and to promote the development of more sophisticated models...
Respect for Teachers
The Rhetoric Gap and How Research on Schools is Laying the Ground for New Business Models in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
For over 30 years we have been in the midst of a paradox. Following a questionable logic that sees education as a means to economic ends, efforts to reform education have focused on keeping the US from slipping in international economic competition. Relying on testing as a standard, in the end we...
School Turnaround Policies and Practices in the US
Learning from Failed School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
This volume provides an analysis of what we know about turning around "failing" schools in the United States. It starts with an in-depth examination of the barriers that hinder action on turnaround work.
The book analyses the reasons why some schools that find themselves in serious...
Managing to Change
How Schools Can Survive (and Sometimes Thrive) in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book shows how school improvement efforts are often undermined by the changing conditions around schools, as well as by some of the very policies and programs designed to help them make improvements. Hatch argues that schools cannot wait around for conditions to improve or for policymakers to...