The book's in-depth coverage analyzes and compares features, frameworks, tools, methods, outcomes, and reform components for 17 major reading programs.
The book's in-depth coverage analyzes and compares features, frameworks, tools, methods, outcomes, and reform components for 17 major reading progr...
Have urban schools failed, or has reform failed urban schools? This book examines existing urban school programs, ranging from desegregation to reading improvement, in light of available historical, empirical, and case study evidence. Miron and St. John and their contributors probe the underlying theoretical, normative, and political assumptions embedded in specific reform initiatives. They explore how reforms might be reconstructed to better address the underlying challenges and they demonstrate that reforms can be constructively critiqued throughout the stages of implementation, arguing...
Have urban schools failed, or has reform failed urban schools? This book examines existing urban school programs, ranging from desegregation to readin...
Much of the twentieth century saw broad political support for public funding of American higher education. Liberals supported public investment because it encouraged social equity, conservatives because it promoted economic development.
Recently, however, the politics of higher education have become more contentious. Conservatives advocate deep cuts in public financing; liberals want to expand enrollment and increase diversity. Some public universities have embraced privatization, while federal aid for students increasingly emphasizes middle-class affordability over universal...
Much of the twentieth century saw broad political support for public funding of American higher education. Liberals supported public investment bec...
This book provides unique insights into one of the United States' most comprehensive school-restructuring movements, the Accelerated Schools Project. Since its inception in 1986, the Project has aimed to transform school cultures which slow down learning through remediation into cultures which accelerate the learning of all students. The contributors to the book explore the challenges which face those involved in the Project.
This book provides unique insights into one of the United States' most comprehensive school-restructuring movements, the Accelerated Schools Project. ...
Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. In the U.S. these reforms are rationalized based on intermediate variables, like the number of math credits completed in high school and net prices. However, the reforms rationalized based on this research are seldom evaluated in relation to outcomes (i.e., measures of student achievement and equal opportunity to attain an education). In Education and the Public Interest the...
Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasi...
Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. In the U.S. these reforms are rationalized based on intermediate variables, like the number of math credits completed in high school and net prices. However, the reforms rationalized based on this research are seldom evaluated in relation to outcomes (i.e., measures of student achievement and equal opportunity to attain an education). In Education and the Public Interest the...
Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasi...
This text examines two major challenges facing the nation: preparing high school students for college, and creating new pathways to academic success for underrepresented students in higher education.
This text examines two major challenges facing the nation: preparing high school students for college, and creating new pathways to academic success f...
Teaching the Whole Student is a compendium of engaged teaching approaches by faculty across disciplines. These inspiring authors offer models for instructors who care deeply about their students, respect and recognize students' social identities and lived experiences, and are interested in creating community and environments of openness and trust to foster deep-learning, academic success, and meaning-making.
The authors in this volume stretch the boundaries of academic learning and the classroom experience by...
Published in association with AAC&U
Teaching the Whole Student is a compendium of engaged teaching approaches by facul...
Teaching the Whole Student is a compendium of engaged teaching approaches by faculty across disciplines. These inspiring authors offer models for instructors who care deeply about their students, respect and recognize students' social identities and lived experiences, and are interested in creating community and environments of openness and trust to foster deep-learning, academic success, and meaning-making.
The authors in this volume stretch the boundaries of academic learning and the classroom experience by...
Published in association with AAC&U
Teaching the Whole Student is a compendium of engaged teaching approaches by facul...
The purpose of this volume is to help jump-start an urgently needed conversation about fairness and justice in access to higher education to counteract the ubiquitous mantras of neoliberal globalization and managerialism. The book seeks to carve out a strong moral and normative basis for opposing mainstream developments that engender increasing inequality and market-dependency in higher education. The books chapters consider how different national communities channel access to higher education, what their "implicit social contracts" are, and what outcomes are produced by different policies...
The purpose of this volume is to help jump-start an urgently needed conversation about fairness and justice in access to higher education to count...
