Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Schooling for Social Change
The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Schooling for Social Change offers fresh perspectives on the emerging field of human rights education in India. 60 years after independence, the Indian schooling system remains unequal. Building on over a year of fieldwork, including interviews and focus groups with policymakers, educators, parents...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
This volume seeks to answer important questions about how socioeconomic school integration plans are faring and to provide guidance for how they can be sustained and expanded in the years to come. This research-driven volume features work by authors who offer a fresh perspective on critical issues such...
by I. Mitroff, L. Hill, C. Alpaslan
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Using a form of systems thinking, this book analyzes K-12 education as a complex, "messy" system that must be tackled as a whole and provides a series of heuristics to help those involved in the education mess to improve the system as a whole.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Just what is the role and impact of corporate elites in contemporary reforms of public sector universities and schools? Providing fresh perspectives on matters of governance and vibrant case studies on the particular types of provision including curriculum, teaching and professional practices, Gunter,...
Changing Governance in Universities
Italian Higher Education in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book critically examines the ramifications of reforms to higher education institutions. All of the higher education system reforms implemented in western countries over the last three decades have had one fundamentally important aim: namely, that of changing the existing institutional and system...
Global Education Policy, Impact Evaluations, and Alternatives
The Political Economy of Knowledge Production
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform. After elaborating on what it means to approach the intersection of these issues from a political economy perspective,...
by Marta P. Baltodano
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In recent years there have been strong movements of reforms in teacher education. The most common are intended to adjust teacher preparation to the standardization demands of NCLB, Race to the Top, and CAEP to make teacher education more accountable. These reforms—carried out in the name of excellence,...
Becoming a Mathematics Teacher
Identity and Identifications
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
The book is centered on how major curriculum reform shapes mathematics and the professional practices of teachers. This book documents in real time the implementation of a major government numeracy programme and its receipt by trainee and new teachers. It documents the complete life span of that initiative....
The politics of public education
Reform ideas and issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
At a time when public education and reform agendas are changing the way we approach education, this book critically examines the key issues facing the public with implications for education policy makers, professionals and researchers. Drawing on empirical evidence gathered over 20 years, Helen Gunter...
The Prize
Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A New York Times Bestseller
Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education.
When Mark Zuckerberg announced to a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey,...
Great Expectations
What Kids Want From Our Urban Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book explores meaningful and effective use of student voice in urban school renewal efforts through strategies that include: surveys, interviews, focus groups, visual and video projects, social media, and student participation in governance. Chapters provide a definition of student voice, context...
50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools
The Real Crisis in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive...
10 Lessons from New York City Schools
What Really Works to Improve Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this provocative and practical book, author Eric Nadelstern provides a proven-effective blueprint for narrowing the achievement gap in our schools, especially for children of color who have been historically underserved. The author, one of the chief architects of the New York City reforms under...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged substantively and critically with the organization’s work. While the Gates Foundation is the single largest supporter by far of "choice"...