Educational Reform category: 2687 books
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
An urgent case for protecting public education, from one of America's best-known education experts
In this landmark book, Diane Ravitch - former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum - examines her career in education reform and repudiates...
by Jean Anyon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
There was only one Karl Marx, but there have been a multitude of Marxisms. This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice. Marx and Education...
Benjamin S. Bloom
Portraits of an Educator
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Few individuals in the history of education have had greater impact on educational policy and practice than Benjamin S. Bloom. During a career that spanned over five decades, his research and writing guided the development of innumerable educational programs and provided powerful insights into the...
Radical
Fighting to Put Students First
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a fearless and pioneering advocate for education reform, draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better American schools.
Rhee’s goal is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making students—not adults—our top priority, and she outlines...
Reinventing America's Schools
Creating a 21st Century Education System
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
**From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education.
In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform,...
After the Education Wars
How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Strong sales track: The Man Who Discovered Quality was a bestseller in the U.S. and Japan, with nearly 30,000 copies sold in each market. Her other books sold more than 15,000 copies each.
Good review history: Gabor’s books have been reviewed by the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street...
Five Miles Away, A World Apart
One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of...
Lessons from the Heartland
A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
“Miner’s story of Milwaukee is filled with memorable characters . . . explores with consummate skill the dynamics of race, politics, and schools in our time.” —Mike Rose, author of The Mind at Work
Weaving together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the...
Degrees of Inequality
How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers...
by Ludovic Highman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The book sets out to offer a national perspective on the complex changes occurring in European higher education systems. The Lisbon European Council (2000) set an ambitious target for the Union to become "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" with important...
A Search for Better University Education
Experiment at Malaspina
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Many people have something to say about what is wrong with our universities, but Gary Bauslaugh spent decades trying to do something about it. In this compelling, entertaining, and highly informative memoir, Bauslaugh doesn’t just relate his own experiences, he shines a spotlight on exactly what is...
It's the Classroom, Stupid
A Plan to Save America's Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system. The plan reflects the author's rare fusion of on-the-ground experience as school board member, public administrator and political activist and exhaustive policy research. The...
Passed On
Public School Children in Failing American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Passed On presents an honest, often gritty story of the classroom experience in failing schools in Philadelphia, PA, a city with violent crime and a high poverty rate. Through stories of her own students, Louise Marr reveals how the current corporate reform movement misunderstands what teachers and students...
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In this foundational book, Frederick M. Hess and Max Eden bring together a cross-section of respected academics and journalists to examine key aspects of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
This volume provides a thematic and in-depth analysis of the central provisions of this landmark legislation,...