Educational Reform category: 2687 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
Designing Performance Assessment Systems for Urban Teacher Preparation presents an argument for, and invites, critical examination of teacher preparation and assessment practices--in light of both the complexity and demands of urban settings and the theories of learning and learning to teach that...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This edited volume provides multidisciplinary and international insights into the policy, managerial and educational aspects of diverse students’ transitions from education to employment. As employers require increasing global competence on the part of those leaving education, this research asks...
The Public School Advantage
Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation...
To What Ends and By What Means
The Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of several established theories and policy approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Globalization, Education and Social Justice, which is the tenth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents up-to-date scholarly research on major discourses concerning global trends in education, social justice and policy research. It provides...
The Changing Epistemic Governance of European Education
The Fabrication of the Homo Academicus Europeanus?
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This book examines the transformations of epistemic governance in education, the way in which some actors are shaping new knowledge, and how that new knowledge impacts other actors in charge of implementing this knowledge in the context of the decision-making process and practice. The book describes...
by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to...
Survival of the Fittest
The Shifting Contours of Higher Education in China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book will examine how universities in China and the US are responding to markets and increasing global competition. For both countries, a university education is seen as key to economic development. While China and the US have two very different political systems, they represent the two largest...
Teacher Management in China
The Transformation of Educational Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Education has long been highly valued in China, and continues to be highly valued, both by the state, which appreciates the value of education for maintaining China's economic rise, and by parents, who, affected by the One Child Policy, devote a large proportion of their incomes to their one child's...
by Kathryn Ecclestone, Dennis Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education confronts the silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the educational system and into the workplace. Controversial and compelling, Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes’ classic text uses a wealth of examples across the education system, from primary...
Challenging Boundaries
Managing the integration of post-secondary education
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This edited volume will be an important and key resource for managers, researchers, and policy makers in the field of Higher Education and Further Education. It offers insights into a radical new way of organizing post-compulsory education on an international basis that directly promotes a social...
Too Many Children Left Behind
The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The belief that with hard work and determination, all children have the opportunity to succeed in life is a cherished part of the American Dream. Yet, increased inequality in America has made that dream more difficult for many to obtain. In Too Many Children Left Behind, an international team of social...
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by Joanne McEachen
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Don't waste another precious day of your child's education!
We’ve got 8 cut-to-the-chase questions you can use to start a learner-focused conversation with your local school. Don’t be afraid to ask them!
If all parents started asking questions like these – if parents were informed,...
The Methodological Dilemma
Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
This thought-provoking book challenges the way research is planned and undertaken and equips researchers with a variety of creative and imaginative solutions to the dilemmas of method and representation that plague qualitative research.
Fascinating and inspiring reading for any researcher in...