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Mayo, Andrea – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ1), 2010
The education system in California today is unable to meet the needs of the state's economy or the expectations of its citizens. From school finance to ensuring the quality of teaching, from assessment and accountability to preparing students for college and careers, education policy today in California often works against the best interests of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Change, Accountability, Public Education
Quinn, Therese M., Ed.; Ploof, John, Ed.; Hochtritt, Lisa J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Art and Social Justice Education" offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art History, Critical Theory, Elementary Secondary Education
Breivik, Patricia Senn; Senn, J. A. – 1994
This book is about resource-based learning, a means by which educators can teach their students to be lifelong learners. The eight chapters contain information to help students learn how to find, process, and evaluate the information they need to handle the task at hand: (1) "Surviving in an Information Age" examines the information…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Moe, Terry M., Ed. – 2001
In this book, the 11 members of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education provide a broad overview of the U.S. education system, examining its structure and operation, identifying key problems that hinder its performance, and offering perspectives on the requirements of genuine reform. The 11 chapters include: (1) "American Traditions of Education"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Educational Finance
Jedamus, Paul, Ed.; Peterson, Marvin W., Ed. – 1980
A guide to the practice of institutional research and planning in American higher education in the 1980s is presented. Attention is directed to the impact of current changes in the external environment on higher education and implications of these changes for institutional research and planning. Topics include national issues crucial to the future…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Budgeting, College Administration, College Planning