Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Uneducated Guesses
Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. In this explosive book, Howard Wainer uses statistical evidence to show why some of...
Researching the Global Education Industry
Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This book examines how the Global Education Industry (GEI) has brokered, funded, and implemented new conceptualizations of ‘good’ education. With a focus on new private providers and policy actors in education, the authors of the book analyze the impact of the GEI on educational research, policy...
India Infrastructure Report 2012
Private Sector in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Today, India’s education sector remains a victim of poor policies, restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools, children are not learning adequately. Increasingly, parents are seeking alternatives through private inputs in school and tuition. Students are dropping out...
Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement
A critical perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement seeks to theorise and critique current trends in education through the lens of key ideas from motivational theory. Its purpose is to argue that current educational trends on a macro level are a significant threat to the provision of classroom practices...
Without Trumpets
Continuous Educational Improvement, Journey to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Empowering leaders at each level of the implementation of improvement processes is essential if public schools are to survive moving forward. The story of Kentucky’s continuous improvement can be evidenced from the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) of 1990, and the intensive systems work since...
by Carlo Raffo
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
An enduring educational concern that has plagued researchers and policy makers in a number of affluent countries is the endemic nature of educational inequalities. These inequalities highlight distinct differences in the educational skills, knowledge, capabilities and credentials between learners’...
Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations. It is divided into 3 sections: Part 1 introduces the topic of immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage that is consistently reported across a range of international jurisdictions....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This book provides new perspectives on Assessment for Learning (AfL), on the challenges encountered in its implementation, and on the diverse ways of meeting these challenges. It brings together contributions from authors working in a wide range of educational contexts: Australia, Canada, England,...
Trendsetting Charter Schools
Raising the Bar for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment. This volume makes the case that the rediscovery of the civic mission of schooling is not at odds with the broader education reform movement. These...
Making Sense of Education in Post-Handover Hong Kong
Achievements and challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Since 1997 when Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, a string of education reforms have been introduced to improve the quality of education and maintain Hong Kong’s economic competitiveness in the age of globalization. This book provides a comprehensive...
Teacher Education and Teaching as Struggling for the Soul
A Critical Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Challenging conventional ways of thinking about school reforms and teacher education, this book analyses how the "knowledge systems" which organize how teachers’ observe, supervise, and evaluate children produces norms that have the effect of excluding children who are poor and of color....
by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1994
Published to glowing praise in 1990, Science for All Americans defined the science-literate American--describing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes all students should retain from their learning experience--and offered a series of recommendations for reforming our system of education in science,...
Ethnographies of Science Education
Situated Practices of Science Learning for Social/Political Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Researchers who conduct ethnography in science education tend to have a deep commitment for transforming science to improve the lives of people in underserved communities. This edited volume explores how contemporary ethnographers in science education bring to light the local production of scientific...
Structural Injustices in Swedish Education
Academic Selection and Educational Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
While Sweden is often viewed as a benchmark for equality within education, this book examines this assumption in greater depth. The author argues that Sweden’s education system – even prior to the global spread of neoliberalism in education, meta-policies and privatization – was never particularly...