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The Uses of Culture: Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation
ISBN: 9780415913003 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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205,65 |
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Real Learning, Real Work: School-To-Work as High School Reform
ISBN: 9780415917933 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how students can embrace what they learn in the classroom and go on to use the sciences and humanities to make sense of their own outside experiences.
This book demonstrates how students can embrace what they learn in the classroom and go on to use the sciences and humanities to make sense of their o...
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244,84 |
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Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing
ISBN: 9780415920735 / Angielski / Twarda / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parents and others in communities around the country complain that the education system is failing our children. They point to students' failure to master basic skills, and in many cases, see lack of teacher accountability as the cause. To reverse this trend, many communities have looked to standardized testing as a solution. This text takes a look into the reality for students and teachers of standardized testing. Methods and strategies adopted by teachers to comply with standardized tests are analyzed to discover how this change in teaching practice changes both HOW and WHAT students learn....
Parents and others in communities around the country complain that the education system is failing our children. They point to students' failure to ma...
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759,15 |
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Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing
ISBN: 9780415920742 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a result of large numbers of students failing to master the basic skills in education, many communities have turned to standardized testing as a possible solution. This book looks at the reality for students and teachers of such testing.
As a result of large numbers of students failing to master the basic skills in education, many communities have turned to standardized testing as a po...
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284,01 |
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Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools
ISBN: 9780415927628 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dramatically reframing the debate on education in America, Making the Grade shows why today's test-driven reforms will fail and points the way toward a system that benefits all students.
Dramatically reframing the debate on education in America, Making the Grade shows why today's test-driven reforms will fail and points the way toward ...
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156,68 |
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How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities Revisited
ISBN: 9780415927635 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first edition of How Schools Change chronicled the efforts of three very different high schools to improve teaching and learning in the early 1990's. Now, in a new second edition, Wagner concisely summarizes the decade-long history of education reform efforts and revisits the three communities at the beginning of a new century.
The first edition of How Schools Change chronicled the efforts of three very different high schools to improve teaching and learning in the e...
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205,65 |
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Governing the Child in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780415928304 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors to this volume begins from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and childhood at the end of the 20th century. The essays in the book consider what techniques are used to govern the child, what role the family plays, what is global and what is currently specific in the changes, and how the subject is constructed and construed.
Contributors to this volume begins from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and...
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440,75 |
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Governing the Child in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780415928311 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors to this volume begin from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and childhood at the end of the 20th century. The essays in the book consider what techniques are used to govern the child, what role the family plays, what is global and what is currently specific in the changes, and how the subject is constructed and construed.
Contributors to this volume begin from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and ...
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176,27 |
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Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools
ISBN: 9780415932004 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connection between politics and policy is both underscored and criticized, Mary Lee Smith and her associates take their criticism one decisive step further, examining the transitive relation between politics and actual classroom practice. They show that educational policy serves as political propaganda directed at an electorate desperate for change. They refocus current educational debates, casting them in their true partisan light while demonstrating...
This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connect...
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710,17 |
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Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools
ISBN: 9780415932011 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connection between politics and policy is both underscored and criticized, Mary Lee Smith and her associates take their criticism one decisive step further, examining the transitive relation between politics and actual classroom practice. They show that educational policy serves as political propaganda directed at an electorate desperate for change. They refocus current educational debates, casting them in their true partisan light while demonstrating...
This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connect...
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205,65 |
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Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling
ISBN: 9780415933001 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the result of more than three years of ethnographic research, much of which was conducted in the form of interviews with inner-city, at-risk junior high school students.
This volume is the result of more than three years of ethnographic research, much of which was conducted in the form of interviews with inner-city, at...
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195,86 |
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Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement
ISBN: 9780415934831 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steal This University explores the paradox of academic labor. Universities do not exist to generate a profit from capital investment, yet contemporary universities are increasingly using corporations as their model for internal organization. While the media, politicians, business leaders and the general public all seem to share a remarkable consensus that higher education is indispensable to the future of nations and individuals alike, within academia bitter conflicts brew over the shape of tomorrow's universities. Contributors to the volume range from the star academic to the...
Steal This University explores the paradox of academic labor. Universities do not exist to generate a profit from capital investment, yet con...
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881,59 |
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High Stakes Education : Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform
ISBN: 9780415935074 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work analyses the ways in which schools in urban areas are shaped and influenced by social, economic and political forces within the social environment. Utilizing research from schools in Chicago, the book shows how schools attempt to respond to external factors such as social inequality.
This work analyses the ways in which schools in urban areas are shaped and influenced by social, economic and political forces within the social envir...
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710,17 |
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High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform
ISBN: 9780415935081 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class.
Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, e...
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244,84 |
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Unfit Subjects: Education Policy and the Teen Mother, 1972-2002
ISBN: 9780415944922 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wanda Pillow presents a critical analysis of US federal law and policy towards pregnant teens, and representations of teen pregnancy in popular culture and educational policy. She assesses how schools provide educational opportunities for school-aged mothers. Through in-depth analysis of specific policies and programs, both past and present, this book traces successes and failures in educating pregnant teens in the US. Unfit Subjects uses feminist, race and poststructural theories to inform a satisfactory educational policy.
Wanda Pillow presents a critical analysis of US federal law and policy towards pregnant teens, and representations of teen pregnancy in popular cultur...
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710,17 |
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Unfit Subjects: Educational Policy and the Teen Mother
ISBN: 9780415944939 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wanda Pillow presents a critical analysis of federal law and polciy towards pregnant teens, representations of teen pregnancy in popular culture and educational policy assesses how schools provide educational opportunities for school aged mothers. Through in- depth analysis of specific policies and programmes, both past and present, thsi book traces America's successes and failures in educating pregnant teens. Unfit Subjects uses feminist, race and poststructural theories to inform a satisfactory educational policy.
Wanda Pillow presents a critical analysis of federal law and polciy towards pregnant teens, representations of teen pregnancy in popular culture and e...
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220,35 |
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The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education
ISBN: 9780415948418 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. history lose respect, money, and credibility in such a short time?
Revealing how American McEducation went from glory to crisis, The Edison Schools tracks entrepreneur Christopher Whittle's plan to introduce a standardized nationwide curriculum and cut administrative waste.... The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools qui...
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685,68 |
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America's Failing Schools: How Parents and Teachers Can Cope with No Child Left Behind
ISBN: 9780415949477 / Angielski / Twarda / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In America's "Failing" Schools, W. James Popham provides parents and teachers explanations of No Child Left Behind as a whole, walking them through the implications for standardized testing in particular, in language that is uncomplicated and straightforward. Popham offers definitions of the law and its key terms, explanations of what it really means when a school is labeled "failing," and concrete suggestions for what can be done in response.
In America's "Failing" Schools, W. James Popham provides parents and teachers explanations of No Child Left Behind as a whole, walking them t...
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107,70 |
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The Edison Schools : Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education
ISBN: 9780415950466 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illustrating the successes, failures, and ultimate demise of the largest for-profit manager of public schools, Saltman argues that the failures of The Edison Schools offer valuable lessons for the remaining educational management organizations.
Illustrating the successes, failures, and ultimate demise of the largest for-profit manager of public schools, Saltman argues that the failures of The...
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186,06 |
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America's Failing Schools: How Parents and Teachers Can Cope with No Child Left Behind
ISBN: 9780415951289 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since June 2004, millions of parents and teachers across the United States have been receiving report cards in the mail alerting them that their local schools have "failed," For many Americans, this was the first introduction to President Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind legislation, which calls for expanded student testing, more stringent accountability requirements, and annual school-focused report cards at the state, district, and school levels. The legislation ties substantial federal funds for disadvantaged students--which many... Since June 2004, millions of parents and teachers across the United States have been receiving report cards in the mail alerting them that their lo... |
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107,70 |