Author: Ellis, William E. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kentucky is nationally renowned for horses, bourbon, rich natural resources, and unfortunately, hindered by a deficient educational system. Though its reputation is not always justified, in national r...
Author: Shapiro, Harold T. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates. Not anymore. Today's universities have evolved into multifaceted organizations with complex...
Author: McCarty, Teresa L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This account, authorized by the Rough Rock Demo. School community, documents the history of the school-the first controlled by a locally elected, all Navajo governing board, & to teach in & through th...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The American Educational History Journal is devoted to the examination of educational questions using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. With AEHJ, the Midwest History of Education Society en...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The American Educational History Journal is devoted to the examination of educational questions using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. With AEHJ, the Midwest History of Education Society en...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The American Educational History Journal is devoted to the examination of educational questions using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. With AEHJ, the Midwest History of Education Society en...
Author: Null, J. Wesley Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The "American Educational History Journal" is a peer reviewed national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Family Education Network Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Students will explore the contributions and challenges of African-Americans -- from early explorers to contemporary activists. Lessons focus on facts and interpretations of historical events.
Author: White, Howard Nial Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Books, Buildings, and Learning Outcomes examines the impact of World Bank-supported educational reforms introduced in Ghana since 1986 and related investment projects in support of basic education. A ...
Author: Reardon, Mary Publisher: Badger Books LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Catholic school" is not a brand name. Catholic schools differ very much in what they teach and how they teach. So how do you choose a Catholic school? How do you know what you're getting? Mary Re...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students' historical understanding while also addressing the pot...
Author: Heyneman, Stephen P Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A look at the challenges facing education in Central Asia. In this study, the author contests that understanding the challenges throughout the 15 former republics of the former Soviet Union is helpful...
Description: It's no secret that students attending urban schools in the United States do not fare as well on measures of achievement as their rural and suburban counterparts. According to Belinda Williams and her...
Author: Szymanski Sunal, Cynthia Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this Third Volume of the series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East, the volume continues with the previously established overarching purpose of publishing chapters ...
Author: Gutmann, Amy Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education....
Author: McLachlan, Claire / Fleer, Marilyn / Edwards, Susan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Early Childhood Curriculum addresses current approaches to curriculum for infants, toddlers and young children, ages birth to eight. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the curriculum issues t...
Author: The World Bank, , Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recently emerging from a decade-long civil war, Sierra Leone is making a remarkable recovery. The future holds great promise as well as many challenges for the education system in Sierra Leone. The ra...
Author: Aronowitz, Stanley Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack, in the USA and in other industrialized countries.
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Enterprise of Education is Book IV of the research series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East. This book examines the implications of rapid political, sociocultural...
Author: Palmer, Joy A. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization's greatest minds. This unique work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individual...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mission Statement: The current education policy emphasis on higher performance standards, school-level accountability, and market-based reform presents important research challenges within the field o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Historians and teacher educators nationwide are now engaged in discussions about the importance of history teacher preparation. Interest within the history profession about the teaching of K-12 histor...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Historians and teacher educators nationwide are now engaged in discussions about the importance of history teacher preparation. Interest within the history profession about the teaching of K-12 histor...
Author: Koenigsberg, Richard A. Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The present work," states the author, "constitutes the foundation of a new science: the science of psychoanalytic sociology" (p. vii). He intends to give in this work "a foundation of definite knowled...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is motivated by our work with students and their families in urban communities, and the urgent imperative to address the endemic educational and societal inequities that pervade the lives of...
Author: Wray, Harry Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today, most American mothers work full time and children have much more free time and live in less secure urban environments. The amount of time spent attending school in Japan and the US is just one ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The idea for this volume arose out of a need for a treatment of the interplay between language and ethnonationalism within both formal and nonformal educational settings. In no way intended to be exha...
Author: Conkin, Paul K. Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today George Peabody College is a part of Vanderbilt University, as it has been since its merger in 1979. Its prior history was rich and complex. In this book, Paul Conkin, author of the award-winning...
Author: Copeland, Rita Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland places heretical and orthodox attit...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A volume in The Achievement Gap, Research, Practice, and Policy C. Kent McGuire and Vivian W. Ikpa, Series Editors This is the second book in the series examining student achievement. The chapters in ...
Author: Lane, Gilbert M. Publisher: WingSpan Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Parents of elementary and junior high school students will embrace this book as a wonderful insight into what good education is all about. It paints vivid portraits of a variety of interesting and unf...
Author: Sondergaard, Lars / Murthi, Mamta Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Future growth in the countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) will increasingly depend on innovation. And innovation requires skills. This makes it important, as countries plan for recovery,...
Author: Moran, Gabriel Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Speaking of Teaching: Lessons from History focuses on teaching as a fundamental act of all human beings, viewing the question of teaching through the lens of five famous thinkers and two contemporary ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a book about four rural secondary schools of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, a newly independent Central Asian state of the former USSR. Utilizing case study methods, we describe and discuss how t...
Author: Morelock, Kolan Thomas Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880--1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local n...
Author: Morelock, Kolan Thomas Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880--1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local n...
Author: Haqq, Kariem Publisher: The 13th Amendment Freedom Week Movement Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is the cornerstone of this manual. It is the foundation upon which all other rights, privileges and responsibilities belonging to Black Americans in this c...
Author: N/A Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book richly documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbol of their cherished colonial heritage from Britai...
