Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Issues in Latino Education
Race, School Culture, and the Politics of Academic Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Candid and illuminating, this text exposes the educational realities of Latinos (U.S. and foreign-born) in K–12 public schools in the Western United States from the students’ own perspectives. Through the testimonies of students who struggled to graduate from high school, issues that are often...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This Handbook examines the essential nature of the law within an educational context and asks why there is not greater preparation for this aspect of a teacher’s role. Principals and teachers across the world now work in increasingly uncertain and challenging environments involving complex legislative...
Turning the Tide
Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Both Gina A. Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle know what it is like to be the only deaf student in a mainstream school. Though they became successful educators, they recognize the need to research the same isolation experienced by other deaf and hard of hearing persons. In this way, they hope to improve...
Brainless Sameness
The Demise of One-Size-Fits-All Instruction and the Rise of Competency Based Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
This book offers a careful look at how we came to have our traditional education system, and how it met the needs of a different time. By looking back at the past we can take on the task of change without casting blame, but with understanding. We will consider the systems design of the curriculum...
Re-thinking Legal Education under the Civil and Common Law
A Road Map for Constructive Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Whilst educational theory has developed significantly in recent years, much of the law curriculum remains content-driven and delivered traditionally, predominantly through lecture format. Students are, in the main, treated as empty vessels to be filled by the eminent academics of the day. Re-thinking...
Being an Adult Learner in Austere Times
Exploring the Contexts of Higher, Further and Community Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This book examines the experiences of adult learners in times of austerity. The power of adult education to transform lives is well known, and it is especially powerful for those who missed out on educational opportunities earlier in life. Those who have been successful learners in the past are more...
Combat Zone
The Continuing War against the Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Although in plain sight daily, a highly successful war against the public schools has been hidden in the shadows of public consciousness. Only very recently have several people written articles about this war, with the only book calling it a war being written in 2002. Neither the public nor educators...
Unprofitable Schooling
Examining the Causes of, and Fixes for, America's Broken Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Most economies advance by simultaneously decreasing costs and increasing quality. Unfortunately, when it comes to higher education, this has been turned on its head. Costs keep rising while quality declines. How has this happened? What can be done?
This exceptional volume looks at the issues...
Barriers to Learning
The Case for Integrated Mental Health Services in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
A key concern for educators, administrators, professional support services personnel, parents and policy makers are barriers to learning, particularly student mental health. Statistics reveal that up to 20 percent of children and youth have mental health issues and up to 80 percent do not receive...
by NASBTT
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This bespoke ebook compilation is focused on primary subject knowledge and in particular the core curriculum areas of English and mathematics. It has been produced in order to address workload concerns and to offer additional but focused support by presenting a collection of helpful chapters from...
Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society
International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Over the course of the late-twentieth century Basil Bernstein pioneered an original approach to educational phenomena, taking seriously questions regarding the transmission, distribution and transformation of knowledge as no other before had done. Arguing tirelessly for change, more than any other...
The 'Poor Child'
The cultural politics of education, development and childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Why are development discourses of the ‘poor child’ in need of radical revision?
What are the theoretical and methodological challenges and possibilities for ethical understandings of childhoods and poverty?
The ‘poor child’ at the centre of development activity is often...
Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education
Reaching Higher
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
This book examines the attainment gap between foster youth and their peers. Specifically focusing on post-secondary access and success for foster youth, Gross points out the challenges foster youth face in the primary and secondary school context, such as being less likely to complete high school....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This volume promotes a thought-provoking discussion on contemporary issues surrounding the teaching of language and literacy based on first hand experiences and research. Drawing on the authors’ experiences as teacher educators, language and literacy teachers, and researchers on literacy issues...