Educational Reform category: 2687 books
English and Its Teachers
A History of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. Initially charting the rise of a new progressive approach in the 1960s, the book then considers the implications for the subject and its teachers of three decades...
What School Could Be
Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An inspiring account of ordinary teachers who are doing extraordinary things that could transform education
What School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to...
The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small
Charting a Course for the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
In America today, the gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest ever recorded--larger than any other industrialized nation. It has become far too easy to ignore the hardships of millions of children plagued by poverty, poor health, illiteracy, violence, adult hypocrisy, and injustice. As founder...
by W. Kohan
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Kohan offers a transformative, revolutionary, and more radical alternative theory and practice of philosophy for children. He critiques the current state of philosophy for children and demonstrates alternative ways of thinking and practicing philosophy in childhood education.
I labirinti del male
Femminicidio, stalking e violenza sulle donne in Italia: che cosa sono, come difendersi
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nel mondo, ogni otto minuti viene assassinata una donna. In Italia ne viene uccisa una ogni due giorni. Sono prede facili, indifese, emarginate, spesso abbandonate da tutti.
Luciano Garofano con Rossella Diaz ci racconta storie vere di donne e ci conduce nei drammatici labirinti del male, tra paura,...
by Frederick M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A practical and entertaining volume, Cage-Busting Leadership will be of profound interest and value to school and district leaders—and to everyone with a stake in school improvement.
Rick Hess aptly describes his aims at the start of this provocative book: "I believe that two things...
by Chris Bonner, Jane Caro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school...
Education Forward
Moving Schools into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Too often, we think of school as a fixed-rail path we all have to follow: teachers teach, students learn, exams are taken, futures set. That's how it's been since the introduction of compulsory schooling in the 19th century.
But parents, teachers and corporations around the world are now voicing...
Boston Against Busing
Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, Formisano argues, but racial prejudice alone cannot...
Dream Factories
Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.”
For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career success. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison argue that the over-promotion of higher education and university...
UNSUSTAINABLE
A Strategy for Making Public Schooling More Productive, Effective, and Affordable
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
UNSUSTAINABLE frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in AmericaOs public schooling system, and provides a strategy to address it. It argues something that many education professionals and policy makers have come to believe but rarely mention: That this countryOs system of K-12 schooling is not...
Breaking Out
VMI and the Coming of Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
On July 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's...
European Multilingualism
Current Perspectives and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This book provides a broad sociolinguistic perspective on major questions of political and cultural Europeanization. It is concerned with European multilingualism as it actually results from the intersecting endeavour of policy making and scientific research. This volume argues that the EU must overcome...
Military Brass vs. Civilian Academics at the National War College
A Clash of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., is the apex of the American system of military Professional Military Education (PME) Schools. The War College has trained such leading foreign policy specialists as former National Security Director Brent Scowcroft, former Secretary of State...