Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Lotteries for Education
Origins, Experiences, Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Lotteries are widely used to decide places (seats) at schools, colleges and universities. Conall Boyle explores many examples to find out why. The emotional turmoil that the use of ballots can cause to students and parents alike is graphically described. But lottery selection teaches lessons too;...
Upstart
The case for raising the school starting age and providing what the under-sevens really need
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Why does Britain and its former colonies send children to school as young as four and five, when in eighty-eight per cent of the world the starting age is six or seven? Sue Palmer, author of bestselling Toxic Childhood, uncovers the truth: it's not because of what's best for children, but historical...
Achieving Equity and Quality in Higher Education
Global Perspectives in an Era of Widening Participation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Across the world, higher education is witnessing exponential growth in both student participation and types of educational providers. One key phenomenon of this growth is an increase in student diversity: governments are widening access to higher education for students from traditionally underrepresented...
Voices of Determination
Children That Defy the Odds
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Voices of Determination tells the stories of ten children who overcame extraordinarily difficult circumstances to get an education and end the cycle of generational poverty. It debunks the myth that children are victims of circumstance. In this moving work, Kevin P. Chavous argues that children can...
Career Guidance for Social Justice
Contesting Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and global discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice and evaluate the field from a diverse range of theoretical positions....
Yes, We Are Stupid in America!
A Former Principal’S Reality Check on Why Our Public Schools Are Failing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Students in countries such as Finland, South Korea, and Singapore continue to outperform their peers in America. But that hasnt stopped the United States government from spending more money on education as achievement plummets.
Dr. Vicky Wells, a former school principal, explores whats going...
Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing
Migration, education, and policy in urban China
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing is a timely book that addresses the gap in the provision of basic education to migrant children in China. It examines the case of Beijing, with a focus on policy implementation at the municipal and district levels and its impacts on migrant schools...
Dream Differently
Candid Advice for America's Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
To get the most out of your college education, you need to choose your classes wisely -- and increasingly, that means choosing STEM. Today's job seekers should have at least a basic understanding of trigonometry and other science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The U.S. Bureau of...
Educating for Empathy
Service Learning in Public Policy Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Service learning presents an experiential learning opportunity, particularly for students at higher education institutions. At the same time, it allows the university to engage communities and apply its considerable resources addressing community needs. This book, Educating for Empathy: Service Learning...
Betrayed
How the Education Establishment has Betrayed America and What You Can Do about it
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.S. Department of Defense. Why then are so many children suffering what amounts to educational malpractice? Why are they crippled for life with a substandard education and a life-altering vision of themselves as 'incapable'?...
Journeys of Charter School Creators
Leadership for the Long Haul
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Journeys of Charter School Creators tells of the journeys of ten thriving charter schools throughout the United States and their leaders over the past 20 years. The first seven cases are follow-up stories from the original book published in 2004, Adventures of Charter School Creators: Leading from...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
This book explores family-school partnerships and how they can be most effectively leveraged to ensure academic success for students from socioculturally diverse backgrounds. It presents an innovative framework for building collaborative learning partnerships with culturally diverse families, for...
First Things First!
Creating the New American Primary School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Challenging policymakers, educators, reformers, and citizens to replace piecemeal reforms with fundamental redesign, First Things First! calls for a different way of organizing the American primary school. Ruby Takanishi outlines a new framework for integrating early education with primary education...
by Franca Pinto Minerva, Franco Frabboni
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 13, 2014
In un manuale dedicato all’infanzia e alla sua scuola, una panoramica storica e teorica delle principali tappe del pensiero e dell’operato pedagogico, dall’Ottocento a oggi.
Dalla sua nascita a oggi, la scuola per l’infanzia ha descritto una lunga parabola di trasformazioni ed evoluzioni,...