Author: Brower, Robert Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Trimester Schedule that Works is a guidebook for secondary educators who want to maximize teaching and learning opportunities in their schools. The book begins with research that supports a trimeste...
Author: Dawidziak, Joe Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There are times in today's educational world when it seems as if common sense has lost its place as a factor in critical decision making. This book strives to provide alternative, practical, and commo...
Author: Pollock, Mica Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remed...
Author: Seong, Somi / Popper, Steven W. / Goldman, Charles A. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the late 1990s, the Korea Ministry of Education and Human Resources, in response to concern over the relatively low standing of the nation?s universities and researchers, launched the Brain Korea 2...
Author: Drolet, Bonita M. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Principals want all students to bridge the achievement gap. Sometimes they just don't know how to make it happen. This book looks at what successful principals do to close the achievement gap and move...
Author: Conzemius, Anne / O'Neill, Jan Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Who is responsible for student learning? Walk into an effective school and ask this question of anyone-a teacher, a student, the principal, a parent volunteer, a secretary-and you'll get the same answ...
Author: Bodilly, Susan J. / Chun, JoAn / Ikemoto, Gina Schuyler Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Ford Foundation developed the Collaborating for Education Reform Initiative, providing grants to collaboratives in urban settings to improve the quality of teaching. Eight sites signed on, and the...
Author: Berends, Mark / Chun, Joan / Schuyler, Gina Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A decade ago, New American Schools (NAS) launched an ambitious effort forwhole-school reform to address the perceived lagging achievement of Americanstudents and the lackluster school reform attempts ...
Description: Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on 14 case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice a...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on 14 case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice a...
Author: Finn, Chester E., Jr. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty ...
Author: Schmidt, Margaret Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Collaborative Action for Change presents new directions in the preparation and lifelong professional development of music educators. The book's chapters are based on some of the most effective present...
Author: Pollock, Mica Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a Cal...
Author: SHOSTAK, ARTHUR (ED) Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Educational futuristics-a creative mix of dynamic pedagogy and evolving futuristics-offers K-12 professionals, parents of school-age children, and youngsters alike a new tool for upgrading the learnin...
Author: Abrams, Paula Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "A definitive study of an extremely important, though curiously neglected, Supreme Court decision, Pierce v. Society of Sisters." ---Robert O'Neil, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Virginia S...
Description: This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that ...
Author: Peteet, John R Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Depression and the Soul, John Peteet proves the old adage that the best physician is also a philosopher. He leads readers through a consideration of how the existential struggles of depressed indiv...
Author: Guarino, Cassandra M. / Model, Karyn Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reform-minded leaders of Qatar, who have embarked on a sweeping reform of their nation's education system, asked RAND to evaluate the education finance system that has been adopted and to offer sugges...
Author: Ottevanger, Wout, / Akker, Jan, van den / Feiter, Leo, de Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Developing Science, Mathematics and ICT (SMICT) in Secondary Education is based on country studies from ten Sub-Saharan African countries: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sou...
Author: Valencia, Richard R Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This important new book provides comprehensive critiques and anti-deficit thinking alternatives to the oppressive theory of deficit thinking in education.
Author: Greenawalt, Kent Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading cons...
Author: Brewer, Dominic J. / Augustine, Catherine H. / Zellman, Gail L. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The leadership of Qatar has a social and political vision that calls for improving the outcomes of the Qatari K-12 education system. With this vision in mind, the leadership asked RAND to examine Qata...
Author: Nannyonjo, Harriet Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This report is based on a study prompted by the need for improved effectiveness in the use of education resources in Uganda. Uganda's problem with increasing resource constraints for education is comm...
Description: Education Matters draws together a selection of the most influential papers published in the British Journal of Educational Studies by many of the leading scholars in the field over the past 60 years....
Author: Fitz, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the relationships between educational policy, space and place. With urbanisation as one of the central concerns for the future, relationships between the city, educational policy, a...
Author: Young, Victoria M. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The cry has risen to "fix our public schools." Repeatedly, it has fallen upon the ears of those without the ability to listen or the understanding necessary to develop the vision for a responsible pla...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The report offers policy options to support developing countries and transition economies in adapting their secondary education systems to the demands arising from the successful expansion of primary ...
Author: Glennan, Thomas K. / Bodilly, Susan J. / Galegher, Jolene Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How does one spread a successful educational reform? The essays here recount the authors?' experiences with the scale-up process. Among their lessons are the importance of building the capacity to imp...
Author: Gonzalez, Gabriella / Karoly, Lynn A. / Constant, Louay Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Countries in the Arab region are faced with the challenge of developing their populations? skills and technical knowledge, or human capital, in order to compete in the 21st century global economy. The...
Author: Gonzalez, Gabriella / Marcum, Cheryl Y. / Robbert, Albert A. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Countries in the Arab region are faced with the challenge of developing their populations' skills and technical knowledge, or human capital, in order to compete in the 21st century global economy. Thi...
Author: Berends, Mark / Bodilly, Susan J. / Kirby, Sheila Nataraj Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: About a decade ago, New American Schools (NAS) set out to address theperceived lagging performance of American students and the lacklusterresults of school reform efforts. As a private nonprofit orga...
Author: Juvonen, Jaana / Krop, Richard / Rydell, C. Peter Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Young teens undergo multiple physical, social-emotional, and intellectual changes, which have been viewed as setting them apart from both younger and older students. The basic concept of a separate mi...
Author: Neilsen, H., Dean Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Basic knowledge and skills-not years of education -are key to reducing poverty. Raising enrollments and completing primary schooling are necessary but not sufficient for ensuring basic knowledge and s...
Author: Eaker, Robert / DuFour, Richard Publisher: Solution Tree Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Get answers to the most common question posed by educators seeking to build and sustain a PLC: Where do we begin? Readers access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how schools ...
Author: Mary Canning / Martin Godfrey / Dorota Holzer-Zelazewska Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper summarizes the experiences to date of the new EU countries (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia-the EU8) in the reform of higher educati...
Author: Assie-Lumumba, N'dri T. Publisher: Codesria Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides theoretical tools for analysing contemporary African higher education systems and institutions. It also examines policy challenges and the prospects for social progress. It points t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How Stakeholders Can Support Teacher Quality compiles the proceedings from the Milken Family Foundation's National Education Conference (NEC), which took place in Washington, D.C., in May 2006. Each y...
Author: N/A Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The debate is no longer whether to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in education in Africa but how to do so, and how to ensure equitable access for teachers and learners, whether i...
Description: This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement efforts. It displays how the dynamic model, which is theore...
Description: This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement efforts. It displays how the dynamic model, which is theore...
Author: Creese, Michael Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides school governors with a blueprint for working effectively and enthusiastically to bring about positive change in their schools, for the benefit of all those concerned.
Author: Grissmer, David W. / Wilson, Peter A. / Mussington, B. David Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why do students have different achievement levels across states? Is math achievement improving across states? Differences in average achievement levels across states are mainly traceable to differing ...
Author: N/A Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text focuses on religious education, history, geography and cross-curricular planning in the primary school. It includes discussion of the purpose of education, and how the humanities fit into th...