A Community Action Guide to Teacher Quality. - Washington : Public Education Network, 2001. - 104 p. This guide is designed to help communities better understand teachers and teaching, as well as the community’s role in achieving high-quality teaching. It is based on the experiences of eight local education funds — independent community-based advocacy organizations working to...
Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, 2008. — 213 p. — ISBN 978-0-13-234649-8, 0-13-234649-4. In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy...
Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, 2008 — 213 p. — ISBN 978-0-13-234649-8, 0-13-234649-4 In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy...
Greenwood Press, 1999. - 520 p. This volume is one of the best historical dictionaries that this reviewer has found on the subject. The index is a model of completeness and facilitates access to the main individuals, concepts, and other information points contained in the individual entries.
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 345 p. Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiancé. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish...
New York: Teachers College Press, 2014. — 107 p. Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform....
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 269 p. This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements. Amy Binder...
Haymarket Books, 2011. — 359 p. Many recent books on education and schooling examine small pieces of the system to suggest improvements--teacher training and practice, assessments, school design and management, and the like. No book has ever taken on the systemic forces at work in modern education systems like Schooling in Capitalist America and suggested that a radical...
Peter Lang, 2015. — 207 p. A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education policy, but few have struck the right balance between...
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 290 p. — (Chicago Guides to Academic Life). — ISBN10: 022635914X, 13 978-0226359144. Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering doctoral programs and...
University Of Chicago Press, 2010. - 413 p. In recent years, America’s position of leadership in the world has been challenged in many ways. One significant shift is that the country’s position as the preeminent global leader in higher education, particularly in the fields of science and technology, has come into question. American Universities in a Global Market addresses the...
Basic Books, 1985. — 272 p. Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep school...
Examines the costs and quality of higher education in the United States. Theories on the faults of higher education; Congress' establishment of National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education; Contents of the report `Straight Talk About College Costs and Prices. ' (16,800 characters)
Routledge, 2022. — 320 p. — (Routledge Research in Stem Education). Adopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights into progressing socially just STEM education pathways.
New York: Routledge, 2018. — 205 p. Introduction: ERBAUT VON DER GEMEINDE WIEN…/ Built by the Community of Vienna Elizabeth Ann Danto Bob’s Diary, December 1931 Michael John Burlingham A school for trick cyclists? Michael Molnar The Hietzing years Eli zabeth Ann Danto August Aichhorn and his Hietzing friends Thomas Aichhorn Anna Freud and the science of unexpected findings Inge...
Routledge, 2013. — 216 p. The authors persuasively argue that the present cascade of reforms to public education is a consequence of a larger intention to shrink government. The startling result is that more of public education's assets and resources are moving to the private sector and to the prison industrial complex. Drawing on various forms of evidence-structural, economic,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 216 p. In addition to possessing the world’s largest economies, China and the United States have extensive higher education systems comparable in size. By juxtaposing their long and distinctive educational traditions, Palace of Ashes offers compelling evidence that American colleges and universities are quickly falling behind in measures...
Springer, 2018. — 255 p. This book exposes a disturbing misuse of the scientific method to advance policies and agendas that are in fact detrimental to both science and education. The author, a physics professor, examines two related trends in education – the practice of “data-driven” reform and the disparaging of the traditional liberal arts in favor of programs with a heavy...
The Oxford Village Press, 2003. — 440 p. A Nation From The Bottom Up An Angry Look At Modern Schooling Eyeless In Gaza I Quit, I Think True Believers and The Unspeakable Chautauqua The Lure Of Utopia The Prussian Connection A Coal-Fired Dream World The Cult of Scientific Management My Green River Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede The Empty Child Absolute Absolution The...
Routledge, 2019. — 225 p. This pathbreaking textbook addresses key issues which have often been condemned to exceptions and footnotes — if not ignored completely — in historical considerations of U.S. higher education; particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Organized thematically, this book builds from the ground up, shedding light on the full, diverse range of...
Multilingual Matters, 2021. — 440 p. Why does a public high school, despite having resources and educators with good intentions, end up graduating English learners (ELs) without preparing them for college and career? This book answers this question through a longitudinal ethnographic case study of a diverse high school in Pennsylvania. The author takes the reader on a journey...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 328 p. The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides accept it as fact. Adam Laats shows that this widely held belief is simply wrong. Upending the standard narrative of American education as the product of courageous progressive reformers, he...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 370 p. American higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia as corrupt, irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanities disciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements, corporatization,...
National Academies Press, 2018. — 120 p. — ISBN: 978-0-309-47562-4. Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike. Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driven, affecting both the jobs that are available and the skills that are required. As more data and ways of analyzing them become available, more aspects of the...
National Academies Press USA, 2012, 251 p. The study committee has taken stock of the health of our nation’s research universities today and envisioned the role we would like them to play in our nation’s life 10 to 20 years from now. They have found that without reservation, our research universities are, today, the best in the world, yet they face critical threats and...
E.P. Dutton and Co, 1960. — 356 p. A series of essays on the American educational system written in response to the successful launch of the Sputnik by the Soviets and the difficulties encountered by Admiral Rickover in finding sufficiently competent individuals to work in his project of constructing nuclear-powered submarines
Harper Collins, 2022. — 235 p. Everyone wants: High schoolers to graduate well-prepared for jobs. Improved STEM literacy. Greater achievement for inner-city children. Happiness for all children. So why are liberals spending billions of dollars working against those goals? In Race to the Bottom, Luke Rosiak uncovers the shocking reason why American education is failing: Powerful...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 272 p. This edited volume explores and deconstructs the possibilities of higher education beyond its initial purpose. The book contextualizes and argues for a more robust interrogation of persistent patterns of campus inequality driven by rapid demographic change, reduced public spending in higher education, and an increasingly polarized political...
USA: San Diego State University, 2012, 542 p. Welcome to San Diego State University Annual Calendar Academic Calendar Administration and Organization Academic Advising Admission and Registration Fees Financial Aid and Scholarships Student Services Special Programs and Services Division of Undergraduate Studies Division of Graduate Affairs Division of Research Affairs Colleges...
Transcript Verlag, 2021. — 275 p. How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in...
18th Ed. — Routledge, 2017. — 351 p. — (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education). — ISBN10: 1138087254, 13 978-1138087255. Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system-with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, Joel Spring introduces readers to the...
Conscience Press; 1st edition (September 1, 1999). 736 p. This book argues that the academic meltdown in our public education system is intentional. It asserts that change agents have been working at the Education Department to change curriculum, not to improve teaching but to promote a socialist agenda. Their role is to create schools which will mold obedient citizens who no...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 224 p. A comprehensive history of the barriers faced by students from marginalized racial, ethnic, and religious groups to gain access to predominantly white colleges and universities — and how these students responded to these barriers. Affirmative action in college admission is one of the most contested initiatives in contemporary...
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