Educational Reform category: 2687 books
New Public Management and the Reform of Education
European lessons for policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
New Public Management and the Reform of Education addresses complex and dynamic changes to public services by focusing on new public management as a major shaper and influencer of educational reforms within, between and across European nation states and policy actors. The contributions to the book...
Consensus
Education Reform Is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
As we consider the current status of educational reform, it is clear that the United States lacks a clear vision as to how to improve our schools. In the recent past, we have been able to gain support for ideas such as the need for special education programs, free and reduced lunches, pre-school programs,...
by Kenneth Fetterman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
This manuscript addresses the need to bring about more effective teacher training and propagate innovative schools in the United States (and abroad). It is intended to serve as a policy statement and position paper which will enable political forces to rally behind a comprehensive strategy that will...
Pedagogy in Poverty
Lessons from Twenty Years of Curriculum Reform in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
As South Africa transitioned from apartheid to democracy, changes in the political landscape, as well as educational agendas and discourse on both a national and international level, shaped successive waves of curriculum reform over a relatively short period of time. Using South Africa as a germane...
Student Engagement in Today's Learning Environments
Engaging the Missing Catalyst of Lasting Instructional Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
As long as the free market has reigned, private sector firms have confronted a produce-or-perish existence. For a host of reasons, public organizations increasingly face these competitive pressures as well. But public organizations in the most unexpected of places have answered the call to evolve...
by Michael Fullan
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Change Forces With a Vengeance is the third in the chaos theory trilogy (now called complexity theory). The first two books focused on understanding the real complexity of educational reform in action. This book pushes even deeper by providing new insights and lessons of change concerning moral purpose,...
Learning Policy
When State Education Reform Works
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Education reformers and policymakers argue that improved students’ learning requires stronger academic standards, stiffer state tests, and accountability for students’ scores. Yet these efforts seem not to be succeeding in many states. The authors of this important book argue that effective state...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this much-needed volume, Nel Noddings uses her extensive experience at every level of schooling to challenge the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Noddings invites readers to think critically about the ideas underlying NCLB, the reform movement that shaped it, and the processes it has put into play....
Urban School Reform
Lessons from San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
An indispensable book for administrators, policymakers, scholars, and practitioners, Urban School Reform presents a revealing portrait of reform efforts while identifying the full range of issues that education reformers will need to address in districts across the country in the years ahead.
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Latino Education
An Agenda for Community Action Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)-an initiative focused on school reform and educational research with and for Latino communities. NLERAP's goal is to bring together various constituencies within the broad Latino community...
by Professor David Scott, Mayumi Terano, Roger Slee
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Improving education through policy learning is an important notion for countries in need of educational reform. However, identifying a successful set of practices and transferring them from one national setting to another is a complex exercise. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors...
The School Reform Landscape
Fraud, Myth, and Lies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies, the authors take an in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik. They scrutinize school reform events, proposals, and policies from the last 60 years through the lens of critical social theory and examine the...
Educational Policy Goes to School
Case Studies on the Limitations and Possibilities of Educational Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for disenfranchised youth can backfire—and often have the unintended result of widening those gaps. In this interdisciplinary collection of case studies, contributors examine cases of policy...
Reform as Learning
School Reform, Organizational Culture, and Community Politics in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990s, this book explores all layers of the school reform process...