Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Kai-ming Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by 'insiders'. This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms...
by Frederick M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Forget everything you think you know about school reform. Cutting through the cant, sentiment, and obfuscation characterizing the current school reform debate, Frederick M. Hess lacerates the conventional "status quo" reform efforts and exposes the naivete underlying reform strategies that...
Lesson Study for Learning Community
A guide to sustainable school reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Lesson Study has been actively introduced from Japan to various parts of the world, starting with the US. Such introduction is heavily connected with a focus on mathematics education and there is a strong misconception that Lesson Study is only for mathematics or science. The introduction is usually...
by Derek Bok
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and where to go from here
During the first decade of this century, many commentators predicted that American higher education was about to undergo major changes that would be brought about under the stimulus of online...
Educational Opportunity in Rural Contexts
The Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The impetus behind this volume stems from reflections on commemorations of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision. Brown turned 60 in May of 2014, and many special issues of peer?reviewed journals were dedicated to that anniversary. Unlike most special issues and volumes, we sought to highlight...
Neoliberal Education Reform
Gendered Notions in Global and Local Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The restructuring of teaching is a global issue, the result of a transnational movement of policy. Gender shapes the occupational reform and binds the global-to-the-local movement of reform ideas. Gender is also implicated in how policy is done and how it leads to particular outcomes. This volume...
Pacts: the Coalition for Change
How One District’S Effort to Change Could Help You Build a Better School
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
PACTS: The Coalition for Change offers a case study chronicling the efforts of one urban high school district in Northern California to change its curriculum. It quantifies surveyed responses solicited from parents, administrators, curriculum leaders, teachers, and students in the district. It also...
by Scott Abernathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“A powerful, detailed, and exceptionally balanced critique of NCLB. It offers some hope for how we might overcome its faults. No legislator or educational expert should be allowed to get away with not reading it—whether to agree or disagree. It’s a must learning experience.”
—Deborah...
Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out!
Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Parents, young people, community organizers, and educators describe how they are fighting systemic racism in schools by building a new intersectional educational justice movement.
Illuminating the struggles and triumphs of the emerging educational justice movement, this anthology tells the...
The Demoralization of Teachers
Crisis in a Rural School in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The educational system in China is marked by its dramatic inequality between rural and urban schools. The challenges facing rural schools are usually understood as disadvantages in funding, facilities, and staffing, which consequently result in undesirable student performance in general. This book,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Social Network Theory and Educational Change offers a provocative and fascinating exploration of how social networks in schools can impede or facilitate the work of education reform.
Drawing on the work of leading scholars, the book comprises a series of studies examining networks among teachers...
The Strong State and Curriculum Reform
Assessing the politics and possibilities of educational change in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
As Asian education systems increasingly take on a stronger presence on the global educational landscape, of special interest is an understanding of the ways in which many of these states direct their schools towards higher achievement. What is missing, however, are accounts that take seriously the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Arguably, since the day he was elected, President Barack Obama met great anticipation from scores of Americans regarding the forward course our nation desired economically, socially, and educationally. The promise of progress and social mobility that millions of U.S. families hope to attain can be...
The Tragedy of American School Reform
How Curriculum Politics and Entrenched Dilemmas Have Diverted Us from Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s' new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Dramatic academic freedom controversies ended reform and led to a conservative restoration. On...