Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Only Connect
The Way to Save Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
An inspiring new vision for America's public schools from one of the nation's top educators
American fourth graders score twelfth in the world in math skills, after Latvia and Hungary. Our eighth graders are fifteenth, below Malaysia and Slovakia. And by the time they're fifteen years old,...
Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind
Facts and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Studies suggest that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001's goal of 100 percent of U.S. students proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014 will not be met. The authors recommend more-uniform state academic standards and teacher requirements and broader measures of student learning, including more subjects and tests of higher-thinking and problem-solving skills.
Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)
The Permanent Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
A. S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the twentieth century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless parents and teachers have been shocked, delighted or inspired by his subversive ideas about education, or by a visit to ‘that dreadful school’...
Whole Child, Whole School
Applying Theory to Practice in a Community School
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This book provides a unique examination on the ways in which educating the whole child in the community school serves to ameliorate the conditions of poverty and obstacles to learning faced by students. Using a case study approach the book will highlight the successful journey of one school that transformed...
Tafelberg Short: The African University?
The critical case of South Africa and the tragedy at the UKZN
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Unless it can improve its universities, Africa risks losing out in a globalised knowledge economy. Yet many African universities, including South Africa's, are under threat with policies and management styles too frequently inimical to academic quality. Focusing on recent developments at the University...
The School of Freedom
A Liberal Education Reader from Plato to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Liberal education is not a theory. It is the tradition by which Western civilisation has preserved and enriched its inheritance for two and a half thousand years. Yet liberal education is a term that has fallen from use in Britain, its traditional meaning now freely confused with its opposite. This book...
Feel-Bad Education
And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices
Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter...
Mathematics Miseducation
The Case Against a Tired Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
Author and veteran teacher Derek Stolp has come to the conclusion that learning mathematics is of no real consequence for the vast majority of our children. This stance flies in the face of the conventional wisdom held among political leaders, business people, teachers, and parents that mathematics...
Curriculum and the Specialization of Knowledge
Studies in the sociology of education
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This book presents a new way for educators at all levels - from early years to university - to think about curriculum priorities. It focuses on the curriculum as a form of specialised knowledge, optimally designed to enable students to gain access to the best knowledge available in any field.
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Called to Jackson, Mississippi: the Last Bastion of Segregation
A Historical Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Jackson, Mississippi, was the last place Dr. Brandon Sparkman would have chosen to work back in 1970. But an anonymous, threatening letter lured him there. In this memoir and historical documentary, Sparkman narrates what it was like to try to ensure a quality education for all students in Jackson...
Rituals and Student Identity in Education
Ritual Critique for a New Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical...
by Leslie Milder, Jane Braddock
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
So much energy is focused on whats wrong with our public schools and how to fix them that we often lose sight of the extraordinary work occurring in our schools every day, thanks to millions of caring, dedicated professional educators who work hard to ensure every student reaches their potential....
by Lexi Earl
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Schools and Food Education in the 21st Century examines how schools enact food policy, and through doing so, craft diverse foodscapes that create very different food experiences in schools. The school food policy discourse is made up of an amalgamation of discourses on obesity prevention, nutrition...