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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940447254Author Stephen RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Riverhouse LLCPublisher Riverhouse LLCWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived...

At a time when education is considered crucial to a country's economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England's system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather...

This book focuses on the topic of the multiple-stakeholders that comprise the education community across the P-20 continuum. In various ways and forms, the authors of the chapters found within this book promote the importance of engaging with the diverse...

This book responds to recent criticisms that the research and theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests. While acknowledging that neoliberal agencies can appropriate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987895486Author Frances WiddowsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Frontier Centre for Public PolicyPublisher Frontier Centre for Public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942146049Author Ken GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Garn PressPublisher Garn PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

International Law on the Aims of Education is a practical and tangible guide to the international legal standards on the aim and content of education. Using Article 29 of The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a reference point, the book...

Policy Patrons offers a rare behind-the-scenes view of decision making inside four influential education philanthropies: the Ford Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. The...

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In this powerful collection of personal accounts, successful and respected teachers from across the country reveal how recent education policies have played out in their schools and classrooms in negative and counterproductive ways, and offer teacher-led...

Transforming Public Education features nineteen cases that profile entrepreneurs who are pursuing opportunities to create pattern-breaking social change in our public schools. For nearly two decades, education entrepreneurs have been working to transform...

Beyond Tracking responds to the sobering assessment of American high schools by delineating and promoting an innovative and well-defined notion of multiple pathways. The book's authors clearly distinguish their use of the term ""multiple pathways"" from...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460915659Author SungWon HwangFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Sense PublishersPublisher Sense PublishersWeight(grams) 278g

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This book offers a lived defense of liberal education. How does a college professor, on a daily basis, help students feel the value of liberal education and get the most from that education? We answer this question, as professors, each day in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781418127619Author Caroline PrattFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan LibraryPublisher Michigan...

The University of Michigan and China, 1845-2017 traces the long and important historical relationships that have existed between U-M and China. From U-M graduates doing missionary work in China in 1845 to the multitude of innovative and successful...

Examines the educational programs American Indians developed to preserve their cultural and ethnic identity, improve their livelihood, and serve the needs of their youth in Chicago.After World War II, American Indians began relocating to urban areas in...

Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.Winner of the 2025 Best Monograph Award presented by the Globalization & Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education...

An ethnography of Russian teacher education reforms as scripted performances of political theater.Winner of the 2021 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education Winner of the 2020 Critics Choice Award presented by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425547387Author John D Plaintiff MinorFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan LibraryPublisher Michigan...

The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary: A Case Study in Culture War, Authoritarianism and Resistance presents a case study as to how an authoritarian regime like the one in Hungary seeks to tame academic freedom. Andrew Ryder probes the reasons for...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798350974898Author American Montessori Society American Montessori SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint BookbabyPublisher Bookbaby

Crushed is a timely and insightful work that sheds light on the state of American universities and their graduates. It takes readers on a fascinating and reflective journey into the current student debt crisis and how it has become a major burden to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550419771Author Anne McKeoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Fitzhenry & WhitesidePublisher Fitzhenry & WhitesideWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578305646Author Maria Alondra JassoFormat HardbackPage Count 30Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 294gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 222mm * 7mm

Mathematics plays an important role in today's world and is used in daily life more than is often appreciated. Mathematical literacy denotes the competence to deal with the mathematical issues of life in modern society. The underlying purpose of this...

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Drawing on decades of research, policy, and practice, Jennifer A. O'Day and Marshall S. Smith show how strategies for pursuing educational quality and equal outcomes for all students can be linked, presenting an ambitious idea of the future of American...

How can First Nations schools in Canada offer a curriculum that is at once authentically and deeply Aboriginal while comparable in content, quality, and standards to provincial and territorial education? First Nations Education Policy in Canada is a...