Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Maurice R. Berube, Clair T. Berube, Hampton University; author
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
The Moral University examines the ways that universities act morally toward students, faculty, their communities and the nation. It considers the effectiveness of moral reasoning courses in the curriculum and the growth of leadership courses. The book deals with the myriad ways in which universities...
School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice
Challenging the Orthodoxy?
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book provides a contemporary overview of school effectiveness and improvement. It charts the development theory and research in this area and looks at the contribution made to policy and practice. It also challenges some assumptions that have become ingrained into the theoretical and methodological...
Stretching the Higher Education Dollar
How Innovation Can Improve Access, Equity, and Affordability
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this provocative volume, higher education experts explore innovative ways that colleges and universities can unbundle the various elements of the college experience while assessing costs and benefits and realizing savings.
Stretching the Higher Education Dollar traces the reform continuum...
by Stephen J. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education,...
We Don't Need Another Hero
Struggle, Hope and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just achieve. Drawing on...
School Choice
The End of Public Education?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Proponents of market-driven education reform view vouchers and charters as superior to local-board-run, community-based public schools. However, the author of this timely volume argues that there is no clear research supporting this view. In fact, she claims there is increasing evidence of charter...
Losing America's Schools
The Fight to Reclaim Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Losing America’s Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education is a call to save one of the last great democratic institutions in America. Corporatization, charter schools, misleading claims of skill gaps, the loss of Separation of Church and State, deprofessionalization, and the over–use of...
Light Shines in Harlem
New York's First Charter School and the Movement It Led
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A Light Shines in Harlem tells the fascinating history of New York's first charter school, the Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem, and the early days of the state's charter school movement. Told through the experiences of those on the inside—including a hero of the civil rights movement; a Wall...
How Schools Change
Lessons from Three Communities Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2002
The first edition of How Schools Change chronicled the efforts of three very different high schools to improve teaching and learning in the early 1990's. Now, in a new second edition, Wagner concisely summarizes the decade-long history of education reform efforts and revisits the three communities at the beginning of a new century.
High Stakes Education
Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class.
Urban High Schools
Foundations and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform. Focused on critical and problematic elements, the text provides a comprehensive description and analyses...
Human Conditions
The Cultural Basis of Educational Developments
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological and historical inquiry. It reviews the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China and in doing so investigates cultural...
Educational Linguistics in Practice
Applying the Local Globally and the Global Locally
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
This volume provides a state-of-the-art snapshot of language and education research and demonstrates ways in which local and global processes are intertwined with language learning, use, and policies. Reflecting but also expanding on Nancy Hornberger’s ground-breaking contributions to educational...
Improving the Odds for America's Children
Future Directions in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This landmark volume commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Children’s Defense Fund, which has been an uncompromising champion of American youth for all of those years. Yet the book looks not to the past but at our current circumstances—and at the challenges we must meet now and in the future...