Educational History

Higher education in the Asia-Pacific: strategic responses to globalization

by Howes, David, Yeoh, Brenda, Ford, David, Marginson, Simon, Ziguras, Christopher, McBurnie, Grant, Yang, Rui, Khadria, Binod, Kaur, Sarjit, Al-Mubaraki, Abdullah A. S., Chong, Ho Kong, Erlenawati, Sawir, Gribble, Cate, Hashimoto, Hiroko, Isa, Norpisah Mat, Kaur, Sarjit, (ed), Kudo, Kazuhiro, Li, Mei, Lie, Koo Yew, Marginson, Simon, (ed), Pang, Vincent, Pimpa, Nattuvud, Rena, Ravinder, Sawir, Erlenawati, (ed), Sidhu, Gurnam Kaur, Sidhu, Ravinder, Sirat, Morshidi, Yang, Lijing, Yonezawa, A., Zhang, Yongjun

fromHigher education dynamics

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This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shifting. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacifi…

Race-Class Relations and Integration in Secondary Education: The Case ofMiller High

by Eick, Caroline

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Eick explores the history of a comprehensive high school from the world views of its assorted student body, confronting issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, nationality, and religion. Her case study examines the continuities and differences in student relationships over fiv…

Real education: four simple truths for bringing America's schools…

by Murray, Charles A.

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The controversial author of 'The Bell Curve' returns with a groundbreaking manifesto to transform American education. He presents the four simple truths that parents and educators should confront to precipitate change: that ability varies; that half of the children are below ave…

Changing Schools from the Inside Out: Small Wins in Hard Times. Third Edition

by Larson, Robert

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At any time, public schools labor under great economic, political, and social pressures that make it difficult to create large-scale, "whole school" change. But current top-down mandates require that schools close achievement gaps while teaching more problem solving, inquiry, an…

The History of "Zero Tolerance" in American Public Schooling. PalgraveStudies in Urban Education

by Kafka, Judith

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Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling. Kafka argues that control over discipline became increasingly centralized in t…

What's So Important About Music Education? Routledge Research inEducation

by Goble, J. Scott

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"What's So Important About Music Education?" Addresses the history of rationales provided for music education in the United States. J. Scott Goble explains how certain factors stemming from the nation's constitutional separation of church and state, its embrace of democracy and …

College: What It Was, is, and Should Be

by Delbanco, Andrew

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As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passion…

Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools

by Lindseth, Alfred A., Hanushek, Eric A.

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Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on k-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat f…

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-Examined, Rediscovered, Renewed

by File, Nancy, Ed, Wisneski, Debora Basler, Ed, Mueller, Jennifer J., Ed

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This book provides a critical examination of the sources, aims, and features of early childhood curricula. Providing a theoretical and philosophical foundation for examining teaching and learning, this book will provoke discussion and analysis among all readers. How has theory b…

Radical Connections: A Journey Through Social Histories, Biographyand Politics

by Martin, Jane

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This lecture will revisit nineteenth and twentieth century education policy and politics in the light of the experiences and struggles of a (nowadays) virtually unknown educator activist. Beautiful, tireless, courageous and principled, socialist school teacher Mary Bridges Adams…

Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became anEconomic Engine

by Berman, Elizabeth Popp

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American universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities self-consciously held themselves…

Integral Education: New Directions for Higher Learning. Suny Series inIntegral Theory

by Esbjorn-Hargens, Sean, Ed, Gunnlaugson, Olen, Ed, Reams, Jonathan, Ed

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The educational challenges faced today are driving us toward a new step in the evolution of educational theory and practice. Educators are called to go beyond simply presenting alternatives, to integrating the best of mainstream and alternative approaches and taking them to the …