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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954912045Author Julie ColesFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Imagine a More Promising Future PublishingPublisher Imagine a More Promising Future...

There is mounting evidence throughout the world that democracy is in retreat. This can be stopped and repaired by infusing it with action, beliefs, and knowledge. This book offers a powerful prescription to stop the democracy deficit disorder:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815725442Author Darrell M. WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

Teacher unions and their members have long stood as polarizing figures in a vast educational landscape. As in the Western films of the 1920s, policymakers, education reformers, and onlookers often assign union leaders and the teachers they represent...

Because everyone from policymakers to classroom teachers has a role in achieving greater equity for children from poverty, this book provides a sweeping chronicle of the historical turning points-judicial, legislative, and regulatory-on the road to...

On Indian Ground: California is the first in a series of ten books on American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education. The focus of this text is the 110 tribes in California and the best practices available to educators of native students in K?16...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is an international initiative for the harmonisation of higher education systems in its forty-seven active members. While...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648022654Author Jeffery SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 156g

This book explores the often controversial international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) in education and offers research-based accounts of international testing as a social practice. Assessment exercises, such as the Organisation for Economic...

African Proverbs as Epistemologies of Decolonization calls for a rethinking of education by engaging African proverbs as valuable and salient epistemologies for contemporary times. The book addresses the pedagogic, instructional, and communicative...

The tremendous economic and social changes over the past 40 years of reform and opening-up have provided a seedbed for the historic achievements in the development of vocational education in China.The development of vocational education over the past 40...

Set against the backdrop of globalization and global philanthropy, this book offers new perspectives on the sociological dynamics and governance implications of ‘social entrepreneurial’ policy in education. It examines the spatialities, relationships and...

African Proverbs as Epistemologies of Decolonization calls for a rethinking of education by engaging African proverbs as valuable and salient epistemologies for contemporary times. The book addresses the pedagogic, instructional, and communicative...

Unsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform offers a counter-narrative to the prevailing orthodoxies of schooling and school reform that conflate education and learning with that which can be measured on state-mandated...

Since 1990, Teach For America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. Now its founder, Wendy Kopp, shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in...

Drawing together an international author team from Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the UK, this book examines how we might democratize and open up access to 'knowledge of the powerful' for all. This book moves beyond the narrow...

In this collection, both individually and collectively, the authors explore the gendering of women’s experiences in academia through the lens of narratives of lived experience. This is a cogent theme throughout the book, reflecting on women’s experiences...

Summer Versus. School II: The Balanced Calendar of School, Work and Life, 2nd Edition explores the successes and challenges of moving from the traditional 10-month calendar to implement ones that are more in line with the needs of modern families...

The School Leadership Program (SLP) is a federal grant sponsored by the United States Department of Education. A hallmark of the grant is the connectivity between various agencies to provide quality leadership preparation and development programs for...

There is a story going around about the public schools and the people who teach in them-a story about how awful our nation's teachers are and why we should blame teachers for the poor state of our public schools. But is the story about teachers right or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887303765Author Sueanne E. McKinneyFormat HardbackPage Count 66Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643171159Author Lori OstergaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480818101Author Amelia Arcamone-MakinanoFormat PaperbackImprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 340g

Clio at the Table provides important historical perspectives on contemporary education policy issues. Based on a conference held in honor of Carl Kaestle, one of the most eminent education historians in the United States, the book includes chapters that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460010327Author Susan LarosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Epic PressPublisher Epic PressWeight(grams) 152g

Reading & Writing with Resolve provides everything instructors need to help their students master writing in a college setting. The text takes a three-faceted approach by focusing on the complete writing process, the generation of critical reading...

Urban education is an interdisciplinary field, characterized by introducing many perspectives to research pertaining to educational policy and to the practice of educating youth whose lives unfold in densely populated urban metropolitan areas. This book...

This edited volume is dedicated to contemporary teachers. Its goal is to provide a practical book for in-service and pre-service teachers of bilingual/bicultural children. The authors, each of whom is herself bilingual/bicultural, share personal wisdom...

We live in the age of global science - but not, primarily, in the sense of `universal knowledge' that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of `free' science and the `free society' since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an...

Keywords in the Social Studies takes words commonly used in social studies education and unsettles them in ways that will redefine the field for years to come. Throughout the book, leading and emerging scholars in social studies education experiment with...

Ideal for school leaders, teacher leaders, and superintendents leading district-level change, this book describes how separate professional learning communities can be purposefully linked across schools to create effective Networked Learning Communities...

In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and...

Based on the views of teenagers across Europe and in the Far East, this book argues that we need to reconsider how we judge schools and what they are for. It shows that the treatment of pupils in schools makes more difference to teenagers' views on...

This book provides a rationale and conceptual framework for teaching and learning about community. It focuses on what community means in multiple contexts, outlines the needs and assets of communities, and discusses different approaches to community...

A Critical Pedagogy for Native American Education Policy is an application of critical pedagogical theory to historical and recent Native American educational policy. Focusing primarily on the Mvskoke (Creek), the authors provide a detailed historic...

Clio at the Table provides important historical perspectives on contemporary education policy issues. Based on a conference held in honor of Carl Kaestle, one of the most eminent education historians in the United States, the book includes chapters that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480818118Author Amelia Arcamone-MakinanoFormat HardbackImprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 472g

Over the past thirty years, Holt High School in central Michigan has engaged in a quiet revolution that has transformed mathematics teaching and learning in the district. From its roots as a rural high school housed in a single building in the 1980s, the...

The industrial monoculture spreading across the globe is highly competitive, greedy and egotistical; in the shaping of educational policy, global communities have accepted a model based on science and technology, which lacks aspects that should be...

The impetus behind this volume stems from reflections on commemorations of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision. Brown turned 60 in May of 2014, and many special issues of peer-reviewed journals were dedicated to that anniversary. Unlike...