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  • Exploring the School Choice Universe

    Evidence and Recommendations

    Edited by Gary Miron, Kevin G. Welner, Patricia H. Hinchey, William J. Mathis ...
    Series series The National Education Policy Center Series
    Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues. In doing so, it offers cross-cutting insights that are obscured when one looks only at single issue or a single approach to choice. The book examines choice in its various forms: charter schools, home schooling, online schooling, voucher plans that allow ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Learning from the Federal Market Based Reforms

    Lessons for ESSA

    Edited by William J. Mathis, Tina M. Trujillo ...
    Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top-down, market-focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice. The new Every Student Succeeds Act continues along this path, though with decision-making authority now shifted toward the states. These market-based reforms have often been touted as the most promising response to the challenges of ... Read more

    $88.59 USD

  • The Obama Education Blueprint

    Researchers Examine the Evidence

    by William J. Mathis, Kevin G. Welner ...
    Series series The National Education Policy Center Series
    In March 2010, the Obama administration released A Blueprint for Reform, setting forth its proposed revisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. If enacted, the Blueprint will shape the curriculum, standards, assessments, and accountability systems of schools throughout the nation. It will also determine how and where federal education funds will be targeted, further increase federal ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Curriculum and Imagination

    Process Theory, Pedagogy and Action Research

    by James McKernan ...
    Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative ‘process’ model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure.This comprehensive and authoritative book:offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectivesshows that a ... Read more

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  • Education and Society in Post-Mao China

    by Edward Vickers, Zeng Xiaodong ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia
    The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s.The principal focus is on formal education in schools and ... Read more

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  • The Finnish Education Mystery

    Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland

    by Hannu Simola ...
    Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Genetic Code of All Languages,(Part 2.1; Numerals)

    by Moni Kanchan Panda ...
    There are separate set of numerals in different languages to represent numerals from 1 to 9. 'The Genetic Code of All Languages,' works on explaining the reason behind choosing a particular name and symbol for each of them. ... Read more

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  • Action Research, Innovation and Change

    International perspectives across disciplines

    Edited by Thomas Stern, Andrew Townsend, Franz Rauch, Angela Schuster ...
    Action research continues to see a growth in interest both internationally and across disciplines. This book demonstrates the diversity in settings and focus for action research and provides a guide to its core aspiration: to achieve principled change. Written by authors from a range of countries and range of disciplines (including education, health care, palliative care, social work and community ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Ethnographic Research and Analysis

    Anxiety, Identity and Self

    Edited by Tom Vine, Jessica Clark, Sarah Richards, David Weir ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of storytelling. The chapters interrogate and reframe longstanding ethnographic discussions, including those concerning reflexivity and positionality, while exploring evolving themes such as the experiential use of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve

    Profiles of Programs Helping All Students to Learn

    by James Deneen ...
    Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries. Examining fundamental questions and educational issues, James Deneen identifies what all students should learn and discusses what American students currently learn.Deneen argues that failing schools can become successful by studying examples of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Experiences of First Generation University Students

    Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Methodologies

    Edited by Dr Amani Bell, Dr Lorri J. Santamaría ...
    Series series Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education
    Over the past few decades universities have opened their doors to students whose parents and grandparents were historically excluded from societal participation and higher education for reasons associated with racial, ethnic, socio-economic and/or linguistic diversity. Many of these students are first generation - or first in their family to attend university. While some progress has been made in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD