In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of educa......
The Moral University examines the ways that universities act morally toward students, faculty, their communities and the nation. It considers the effectivene......
Where were you on June 19, 1986? That's the day when--improbably--Len Bias, one of the greats of the college basketball game, a player seemingly destined fo......
Parents Left Behind is an in-depth analysis of the policy implementation process for Section 1118 of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) federal legislation. Sec......
This book paints a comprehensive picture of school finance to illuminate issues with the current system and suggest ways to improve that system.
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This book breaks new ground on how policymakers and journalists can fairly assess charter school performance. The editors and authors show how good approache......
Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform is an invaluable resource for policymakers, faculty, students, and anyone interested in how decisio......
School change can be rough around the edges and extremely difficult and contentious in the beginning, especially if it is not initiated in the correct manner......
Learning Communities 2.0 is an insightful, incisive, and paradigm-shifting critique of today's coercive, "inside-the-box," Industrial Age testing and account......
Educational futuristics-a creative mix of dynamic pedagogy and evolving futuristics-offers K-12 professionals, parents of school-age children, and youngsters......
This book reveals exactly how American teachers are taught, describes the wide disparities in the preparation of teachers across states, depicts how market-d......
This book's importance is derived from three sources: (1) careful conceptualization of teacher induction from historical, methodological, and international p......
In this gem of a book, scholar and wit Kenneth Lasson takes on all manner of excesses in the Ivory Tower which, from his insider's viewpoint, constitute litt......
This is the eBook version of the printed book.In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them ......
Science and the University investigates the tremendous changes that have taken place in university research over the past several decades, gauging the curren......
The concept "leave no child behind" has become popularly associated with the Bush administration's education plan, but Comer contends that it actually diverg......
This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an estab......
The Anglophone world is gripped by a moral panic centred on child abuse in general and fear of the paedophile in particular. Evidence suggests an alarming ri......
For more than a quarter of a century, the polemics surrounding educational reform have centered on two points of view: those who favor a 'progressive' child-......
This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upward of half the stud......