Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
What You Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Alphonso W. Knight Sr., is a retired architectural engineer, teacher, and college administrator. He served as superintendent of buildings and grounds at Fessenden Academy in Martin, Florida and at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. He taught in the public school system is St. Louis,...
Creating Innovators (Enhanced eBook)
The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators...
You Can't Teach Us if You Don't Know Us and Care About Us
Becoming an Ubuntu, Responsive and Responsible Urban Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book addresses the needs of diverse urban students for a new kind of teacher, classroom learning context, curriculum, and pedagogy in order to effectively learn, perform, and achieve. Drawing on the African concept of Ubuntu as a fundamental framework for enacting a humanizing pedagogy, the text...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Princeton University, leading educators and commentators participated in a symposium jointly sponsored by Princeton and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Universities and Their Leadership is a collection of original essays from presenters at the Princeton...
The Faculty Lounges
And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability...
The Last Professors
The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A powerful wake-up call about the threats to the heart of college and university life-the professoriate.
American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
First published in 1999, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century offered a comprehensive introduction to the central issues facing American colleges and universities. This thoroughly revised edition brings the classic volume up to date. The contributors have rewritten every chapter to...
"Keep the Damned Women Out"
The Struggle for Coeducation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance....
by Journal of School Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The Journal of School Public Relations is a quarterly publication providing research, analysis, case studies and descriptions of best practices in six critical areas of school administration: public relations, school and community relations, community education, communication, conflict management/resolution,...
Cultivating Achievement, Respect, and Empowerment (CARE) for African American Girls in PreK?12 Settings
Implications for Access, Equity and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
chapters discuss issues impacting the education of African American girls and many of challenges that they encounter during their schooling experiences. The chapters were written by 24 authors including a school superintendent, university administrator and professors, classroom teacher, mother and a...
by Marsha Marie
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Teacher Talk, Book 2 is a collection of magazine articles that were written in 2012 while Marsha Marie was writing for a
local family magazine in the United Arab Emirates. This free e-book series of four volumes is a great addition to any
teacher's library--especially new teachers. More information about Marsha Marie can be found at www.MarshaMarie.com.
Leading for Equity
The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement.
In chapters organized around six core themes, the...
The Students are Watching
Schools and the Moral Contract
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, Theodore and Nancy Sizer insist that students learn not just from their classes but from their school's routines and rituals, especially about matters of character. They convince us once again of what we may have forgotten: that we need to create schools that constantly demonstrate a belief in their students.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Moving the academic debate on from its current focus on development to a more nuanced sociological perspective, this fresh research is a collaboration between academics in South Korea and Germany that assesses the factors shaping world-class universities as institutional social systems as well as...