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  • Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

    Processes and Outcomes

    by Harry de Boer, Jon File, Jeroen Huisman, Marco Seeber, Martina Vukasovic, Don F Westerheijden ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best and to excel at what they do. This regularly requires governments to change the higher education landscape to achieve their set objectives. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Improving the Performance of Government Employees

    A Manager's Guide

    by Stewart Liff ...
    In light of an increasingly tumultuous political landscape, the success, efficiency, and performance of government employees and departments is more critical than ever before. With over thirty years of experience working for the federal government, author Stewart Liff shares firsthand knowledge about the key to improving a government team’s performance results: understanding how different ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Portrait of America

    A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project

    by Jerrold Hirsch ...
    How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word “American”? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history — and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administration created the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. Although the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Not in Service

    The TTC and the Trouble with Toronto Transit

    by Robert I. Binnick ...
    Something is badly, badly wrong with transportation in Toronto. Just riding public transit provides evidence of that, along with a pain in the neck.  Torontonians still love the TTC, but just wish it would shape up, and are painfully aware it hasn't been world-class for at least a generation. The author, no specialist in any of the relevant areas of research, brings his skills as an academic and ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Educational Policy in an International Context

    Political Culture and Its Effects

    Edited by K. Louis, B. Velzen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes 'the standards movement' and 'new public management' or accountability in the public sector. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Policy State

    An American Predicament

    by Karen Orren, Stephen Skowronek ...
    The steady accretion of public policies over the decades has fundamentally changed how America is governed. The formulation and delivery of policy have emerged as the government’s entire raison d’être, redefining rights and reconfiguring institutional structures. The Policy State looks closely at this massive unnoticed fact of modern politics and addresses the controversies swirling around it. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Globalization and Change in Higher Education

    The Political Economy of Policy Reform in Europe

    by Beverly Barrett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century. With a sustained focus on the national level of policy implementation, institutional change is considered in relationship to broader trends in economic development and globalization. Since the concept of a “Europe of Knowledge” was presented by the European ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Rethinking US Education Policy

    Paradigms of the Knowledge Economy

    by Daniel Araya ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    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 a new educational policy framework that is better adapted to an era of accelerating innovation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reforms and Innovation in Education

    Implications for the Quality of Human Capital

    Edited by Mark K. Warford, Alexander M. Sidorkin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital. By analyzing recent educational reforms in Russia and the US, the authors shed new light on how these reforms may help or hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer technologies into ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Improving Teacher Quality

    The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context

    by Motoko Akiba, Gerald LeTendre ...
    This groundbreaking work examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities, using data from 15 countries. The authors compare and contrast the United States with two high-achieving countries—Japan and Australia—that have implemented very different approaches to improving teacher quality. Drawing on both large international data sets and ethnographic and small-scale ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

    Reforms, Participation and Accountability

    by Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series Book 8 - Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
    This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Literacy and Multimodality Across Global Sites

    by Maureen Kendrick ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Literacy
    Over the past three decades, our conceptualizations of literacy and what it means to be literate have expanded to include recognition that there is a qualitative difference in how we communicate through modalities such as the visual, audio, spatial, and linguistic and that different modes are combined in complex ways to make meaning. The field of multimodality is concerned with how human beings ... Read more

    $34.99 USD