ilość książek w kategorii: 197
All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools Through Public School Choice
ISBN: 9780815748113 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative book asks a simple question: since we know that middle class schools tend to work best, why not give every child in America the opportunity to attend a public school in which the majority of students come from middle class households? Economically integrated schools, the author argues, will do far more to promote achievement and equal opportunity than vouchers, standards, class size reduction, or any of the other leading education proposals on the left and right that seek to make "separate but equal" schools work. Building on two recent education trends --the decline in... This provocative book asks a simple question: since we know that middle class schools tend to work best, why not give every child in America the op... |
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105,58 zł |
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It
ISBN: 9780465029969 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been... The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to j... |
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237,34 zł |
The Stranglehold of State-Mandated Tests on Education in the US: How to Teach Effectively in Spite of This
ISBN: 9781468015270 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kindergarten through 12th grade education in the United States is in serious trouble. This is reflected in the number of students who do not graduate or take five or more years to do so. Further, we find that recent high school graduates cannot obtain employment because they lack the necessary skills and knowledge required in today's job environment. Many of these skills and knowledge should be taught in our schools. The sorry state of education in the U.S. is also reflected in the hundreds of articles appearing daily in newspapers, journals, and magazines that find fault with our education...
Kindergarten through 12th grade education in the United States is in serious trouble. This is reflected in the number of students who do not graduate ...
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26,66 zł |
Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America's Schools
ISBN: 9781612501215 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book brings together a remarkable group of authors who examine the federal role in education policy and reform during the past fifty years.
As Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly note in their introduction, the book represents a determined effort to move beyond familiar and predictable debates and instead to focus on a number of questions that deserve careful and sustained attention: What have we learned from the last half-century of federal involvement, especially the last decade or two of significant federal activity? What have we learned about which goals Uncle... This timely book brings together a remarkable group of authors who examine the federal role in education policy and reform during the past fifty years...
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174,03 zł |
Carrots, Sticks and the Bully Pulpit : Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America's Schools
ISBN: 9781612501222 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book brings together a remarkable group of authors who examine the federal role in education policy and reform during the past fifty years.
As Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly note in their introduction, the book represents a determined effort to move beyond familiar and predictable debates and instead to focus on a number of questions that deserve careful and sustained attention: What have we learned from the last half-century of federal involvement, especially the last decade or two of significant federal activity? What have we learned about which goals Uncle... This timely book brings together a remarkable group of authors who examine the federal role in education policy and reform during the past fifty years...
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263,81 zł |
Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform
ISBN: 9780815723943 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in areas such as standards, testing, teachers, or school choice requires careful analysis of the broader governing arrangements that influence their content, implementation, and impact. "Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century" comprehensively assesses the strengths and weaknesses of... America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this i... |
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158,45 zł |
Realizing Educational Rights: Advancing School Reform Through Courts and Communities
ISBN: 9780226071749 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In"Realizing Educational Rights," Anne Newman examines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educational policy, and law: What is the place of a right to education in a participatory democracy, and how can we realize this right in the United States? Tracking these questions across both philosophical and pragmatic terrain, she addresses urgent moral and political questions, offering a rare, double-pronged look at educational justice in a democratic society.
Newman argues that an adequate K 12 education is the right of all citizens, as a matter... In"Realizing Educational Rights," Anne Newman examines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educationa...
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147,88 zł |
Education in Turmoil
ISBN: 9781483956541 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public education has failed Americans. Politicized and gutted by special interest groups, the nation's education system costs taxpayers $350 billion a year. The benefits reaped from this dubious investment? Millions of functionally illiterate high school "graduates" incapable of performing simple mathematical tasks without calculators. "Education in Turmoil "outlines the social, political, and educational costs of a broken education system. James De GrandPre explains how the Department of Education, far from being concerned with student education, instead pursues political goals,... Public education has failed Americans. Politicized and gutted by special interest groups, the nation's education system costs taxpayers $350 billio... |
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44,38 zł |
Education for Sale
ISBN: 9780415750479 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teachers, schools and education authorities invariably hide their considerable lights and their public relations techniques are often inadequate for broadcasting the invaluable work accomplished in schools. This book offers clear-cut and highly -practical advice for every teacher from pre-school to sixth form on how to get the educational message across to parents. Over the past decades it has become an acute professional concern for teachers to involve parents as closely as possible in the educational process. The book acknowledges that educational salesmanship must be adapted to the...
Teachers, schools and education authorities invariably hide their considerable lights and their public relations techniques are often inadequate for b...
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245,81 zł |
The Menace of Nationalism in Education
ISBN: 9780415750493 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written between the two World Wars this volume examines education from the American, British, French & German perspectives and the degree to which the portrayal of those countries in school textbooks contributes to nationalism or world peace.
Written between the two World Wars this volume examines education from the American, British, French & German perspectives and the degree to which the...
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245,81 zł |
Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
ISBN: 9780465044962 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled. Until the 1970s, the United States had a proud history of promoting higher education for its citizens. The Morrill Act, the G.I. Bill and Pell Grants enabled... America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the ... |
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219,57 zł |
The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
ISBN: 9780520276451 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team--one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher--probes how we've reached the point at which student loan debt--now exceeding $1 trillion and predicted to reach $2 trillion by 2020--threatens to become the sequel to the mortgage meltdown. In spite of their good intentions, Americans have allowed concerns about deadbeat students, crushing debt, exploitative for-profit colleges, and changing attitudes about the purpose of college...
This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team--one a best-selling sociologist, the ...
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213,35 zł |
Common Core: Passing the Test?
ISBN: 9781512377125 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The supposed decay in public education, whereby the United States is declining rapidly and falling behind other industrial nations, has been blamed on bad teaching and the lack of common and consistent standards. The solution to this supposed decay in public education is not only a common set of standards, but common tests that align with those standards. These tests are positioned as next generation assessments. Common Core: Passing the test? describes the development of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the accompanying next generation assessments. It questions whether America's...
The supposed decay in public education, whereby the United States is declining rapidly and falling behind other industrial nations, has been blamed on...
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39,94 zł |
Can Schools Survive?: Questions to Ask, Actions to Take
ISBN: 9781475808674 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue of the purpose of a school and the related issue of whether schools are being asked to do tasks which compete with or complicate the fundamental purpose of a school. This book is interactive and encourages the reader to answer challenging questions, analyze trends in education, and envision the most desired future of schools. The text can help...
Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions...
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253,51 zł |
The Normal Accident Theory of Education: Why Reform and Regulation Won't Make Schools Better
ISBN: 9781475806571 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story. The so-called 'reform' discussion proceeds with a lack of depth about the nuances and realistic limitations in the institutional order of school. This book argues that as regulation of schools moves further up the bureaucratic hierarchy (first to state departments of education then to the national department of education) the legal and institutional requirements get more...
Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situat...
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322,17 zł |
The Normal Accident Theory of Education: Why Reform and Regulation Won't Make Schools Better
ISBN: 9781475806588 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story. The so-called 'reform' discussion proceeds with a lack of depth about the nuances and realistic limitations in the institutional order of school. This book argues that as regulation of schools moves further up the bureaucratic hierarchy (first to state departments of education then to the national department of education) the legal and institutional requirements get more...
Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situat...
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158,45 zł |
Political Will and Improving Public Schools: Seven Reflections for Americans to Consider
ISBN: 9781475805468 / Angielski / Twarda / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily. The suggestions for education made here will require that Americans admit certain flaws in the system, some of which involve their own actions and attitudes. They will also have to be willing to make sacrifices for the larger good, such as allowing shifts in power and control. In other words, these changes will require...
The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and alm...
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295,76 zł |
Political Will and Improving Public Schools: Seven Reflections for Americans to Consider
ISBN: 9781475805475 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily. The suggestions for education made here will require that Americans admit certain flaws in the system, some of which involve their own actions and attitudes. They will also have to be willing to make sacrifices for the larger good, such as allowing shifts in power and control. In other words, these changes will require...
The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and alm...
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158,45 zł |
The Cult of Common Core: Obama's Final Solution for Your Child's Mind and Our Country's Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9781497456044 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A former Common Core insider and current public school teacher, Brad McQueen, delivers a compelling firsthand account of coming face to face with the inner workings of the Common Core. When he discovers what it has in store for our children's minds and our country's exceptionalism, he decides to work towards the destruction of the Common Core beast. Written in a concise, easy-to-read style, The Cult of Common Core will inform you, alarm you, but it will also arm you with the necessary facts to intelligently and forcefully fight for your children and your country before school boards or...
A former Common Core insider and current public school teacher, Brad McQueen, delivers a compelling firsthand account of coming face to face with the ...
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31,06 zł |
Education's Flashpoints: Upside Down or Set-Up to Fail
ISBN: 9781475813166 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The education system is dealing with a concerted effort at making it more accountable and transparent. Whereas measurement of a quality education used to focus on inputs such as money spent, the new measurement is focused on student outcomes such as learning success determined by large-scale standardized tests. This change in perspective assesses personnel and system performance using empirical data rather than perceptual information. Transparent access to data regarding student learning is uncomfortable to teachers' unions because it is difficult to explain away objective information. Their...
The education system is dealing with a concerted effort at making it more accountable and transparent. Whereas measurement of a quality education used...
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295,76 zł |