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Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles Over the Symbolic Order radically questions norms and values held within US Education and analyses why and how culture wars in American education are intense, consequential, and recurrent...

A practical way forward for those who refuse to accept the status quo as the best we can do.In 1966, the Coleman report assessed conditions in U.S. schools and identified barriers that prevented Black students from accessing high-quality education. Since...

Educational Folly: Teacher Well-Being and the Chaos of American Schooling, offers a comprehensive critique of educational reforms that have eroded the teacher's position. This leaves teachers with psychological scars - scars which are fueling the recent...

Have you ever asked yourself, 'Why do we do this?' when faced with the day-to-day realities of school, such as report cards, standardized tests, or textbooks? Chances are, if you are like most Americans, you haven't. William Spady has, however, and in...

Since A Nation at Risk was published in 1983, there has been widespread recognition that public education is failing in the U.S. Numerous expensive reforms have been attempted to no avail, and costs have increased dramatically. Furthermore, economic...

A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture.Book InformationISBN...

This volume makes the novel contribution of applying Nancy Fraser’s concept of progressive neoliberalism to education in order to illustrate how social justice efforts have been co-opted by neoliberal forces.As well as recognising the lack of consensus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985749977Author Teresa JanzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Abundance Books LLCPublisher Abundance Books LLCWeight(grams) 113g

Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming our Schools offers both a comprehensive censure of the current corporate interest in privatizing public schooling as well as a framework for attaining meaningful education reform based in democracy and the combined...

It is essential to learn what innovative practices and leadership approaches are adopted in the education sector to solve challenges such as digital transformations, inefficiencies in higher education administration models, and the need for a connection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783898216494Author Jutta MerschenFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

In an increasingly knowledge-based economy, Canadian universities are important spaces for the development of research and innovation in many areas. This collection is the first systematic examination of the evolving relationship between the federal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911224105Author Robert Shaw-ByrnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Emma Stern PublishingPublisher Emma Stern PublishingWeight(grams) 129g

The Secrets of School Board Success: Practical Tips for Board Members offers practical suggestions for effective service on a public school board. Readers will learn how Lynn Hamilton helped garner the support of teachers, terminate collective bargaining...

Post-COVID Transitions in Higher Education Teaching – Why Things Will and Should Never Be the Same Again. A case study of a UK Higher Education Institution During the COVID-19 pandemic universities around the globe were forced to transition from...

The school finance debate has profoundly shaped the educational reform landscape over the past four decades. Most conspicuously, judges level billion dollar decrees based on scant and conflicting findings. This book sought to explore whether school...

Post-COVID Transitions in Higher Education Teaching – Why Things Will and Should Never Be the Same Again. A case study of a UK Higher Education Institution During the COVID-19 pandemic universities around the globe were forced to transition from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936830862Author Bernard BullFormat PaperbackImprint Athanatos Publishing GroupPublisher Athanatos Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394967755Author Dr Harish KumarFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint Wkrishind PublishersPublisher Wkrishind PublishersWeight(grams) 240g

Thomas Jefferson warned that "the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." American elementary and secondary education shows how right he was. Two centuries ago the founders rejected federal participation in...

Declaring War Against Schooling documents 100 years of educational wars between Visionary learning leaders and Traditional school people. Ironically, to win the existing war, both opposing groups must unify to overthrow the control of education by...

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New York Times , explores how the nonprofit group Say Yes to Education has instituted a network of reforms in...

This book explores the construction of the idea of the ‘talented’ student in India and its relationship to the discourse of the ‘nation’. It historically situates the evolution of the National Science Talent Search (NSTS) and its subsequent avatar, the...

Drawing on discussions of the "Creative Economy," the "Network Economy," and the "Green Economy," Rethinking US Education Policy critiques educational policies authored by the Obama administration and considers the need for...

Vietnam is a country on the move. Yet contemporary Vietnam's education system is at a crossroads. Rapid economic growth has permitted rapid increases in the scale and scope of formal schooling, but there is a prevailing sense that the current education...

Explores how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching about Palestine. It argues that as the relationship between Zionist education and the Israel lobby continues to be strong, it is...

American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War examines how U.S. educational institutions during World War II responded to the dilemma of whether to serve as "weapons" in the nation s arsenal of democracy or "citadels" in...

Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the radically different opportunities his best friend received. After a childhood spent together, Jamie and Reid found themselves on opposite sides of a high school hallway that separated kids based on a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883536053Author D.D. NesselFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint ISHKPublisher ISHK

In Retention for a Change, we give precise strategies for motivating, inspiring, and energizing a staff. The goal is to make your school a place of success for everyone. Teacher retention is a huge issue that continues to grow, and we believe that this...

Louis Sullivan, an American architect, was referred to as the "father of modernism" and coined the phrase "form follows function." His phrase provides a key insight into the state of public education in America. The existing form for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983602101Author Galina StolyarovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint TransitionsPublisher TransitionsWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123613Author Michael BrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291104Author David ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118237Author Greg MortensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 435g

Presenting school reform grassroots activists - teachers, parents, and organizers alike - in their own words, the editors document the newly emerged role of digital networks of activists in school reform and analyze their efforts as acts of critical...

Through fifty-two interviews with New York City parents in gentrifying neighborhoods, this book examines the school choice process to determine how, through the compounding effect of these parents' many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a...

The Self-Organizing School provides ground-breaking insights and guidance about how schools can fulfill their aspirations for quality and productivity in learning and teaching. The book describes a comprehensive decade long school design process and...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of President Obama's education agenda. Obama's reforms have drawn skepticism from supporters of traditional public schools. Robert Maranto and Michael McShane believe that the Obama-era reforms have led to...

A new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions, the book demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the...