Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Digital Schools
How Technology Can Transform Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Nearly a century ago, famed educator John Dewey said that "if we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow." That wisdom resonates more strongly than ever today, and that maxim underlies this insightful look at the present and future of education in the digital...
The Implementation of Health Promoting Schools
Exploring the theories of what, why and how
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Developing a ‘healthy school’ has been a key aim for many schools across the globe, yet achieving successful implementation and sustaining the positive benefits has proven to be challenging. In this much-needed text, the contributors draw upon their wide range of international expertise and experience...
Personalized Learning
Student-Designed Pathways to High School Graduation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Your guide to making a whole-school move toward personalized learning!
Give students the freedom to map their own educational pathways and help them meet graduation standards! This bookillustrates how to support students to take advantage of resources from the community, colleges,...
From Policy to Practice
Sustainable Innovations in School Leadership Preparation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The School Leadership Program (SLP) is a federal grant sponsored by the United States Department of Education. A hallmark of the grant is the connectivity between various agencies to provide quality leadership preparation and development programs for aspiring and current school leaders. These collaborative...
Students' Experiences and Perspectives on Secondary Education
Institutions, Transitions and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book explores the experiences of young people as they move through the Irish secondary educational system. Drawing on a rich study which combines survey data with in-depth interviews with students, it addresses the key facets of schooling which influence young people's experiences. With chapters...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education is the international reference work on innovation education and potentially opens an entirely new direction in education. The overall goal of the handbook is to address the question of how to develop innovators in general and how to develop the innovative potential of today‘s young people
School Choice in China
A different tale?
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools. It highlights how payments such as choice fees, donations,...
Dealing with Change
The Effects of Organizational Development on Contemporary Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Educational administration today is a matter of dealing with ongoing change. The book serves to underscore the effects of organizational development (OD) on contemporary practices and then extends the concept into the facilitation of change management for present and future administrative effectiveness....
by Fiona Hall, Duncan Hindmarch, Douglas Hoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
The book is aimed at all those studying on Foundation Degrees in supporting primary and early years teaching and learning, and particularly those working at levels 4 and 5. It is written in an accessible style with a focus on work-based professional development and encourages critical reflection throughout....
Religious Charter Schools
Legalities and Practicalities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
This book explores the constitutionality of religionbased charter schools. The method of analysis uses hypothetical charter schools to answer legal questions. The answers are grounded in law using the latest precedent. The background material before examining charters sets forth both the legal and policy...
by Barry J Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The increasing impact of performance based judgments on schools and teachers in the classroom has its critics and supporters. Some oppose the trend and seek to deny the importance of quantitative measures. Others have sought to find ways of implementing educational measurement constructively and with...
Global Voices in Education
Ruth Wong Memorial Lectures, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book (Volume II) brings together lectures given by eminent educationalists between 1983 and 2008 in memory of the work of Ruth Wong, an influential figure in the field of education in the 1970s and early 1980s. Addressing learning, schooling, teaching, teacher education, educational research...
Higher Education and Professional Ethics
Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book discusses the significance, relevance, and usefulness of professional ethics in the context of higher education. It highlights the pivotal role of professional ethics in offering teachers a better understanding of their responsibilities, duties, rights, and institutional obligations as they...
Angels and Superheroes
Compassionate Educators in an Era of School Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
The school accountability movement’s focus solely on improving standardized test scores is dehumanizing. There is no standardized child. In the rush to quantify, evaluate, and ostensibly improve the American educational system, we have forgotten that education is complicated. Any attempt to distill...