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Direct linkAffolter, Tara L., Ed.; Donner, Jamel K., Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2018
Challenging the popular perception that the free market can objectively ameliorate inequality and markedly improve student academic achievement, this book examines the overly positivistic rhetoric surrounding charter schools. Taking a multifocal approach, this book examines how charter schools reproduce inequality in public education. By linking…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Public Education
Whitty, Geoff, Ed.; Furlong, John, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2017
In the English-speaking world, university Schools of Education are usually heavily involved in the professional preparation of teachers. Yet, in England and the USA in particular, the role of universities in teacher education has increasingly seemed under threat as alternative providers of training have come on the scene, often with the overt…
Descriptors: Universities, Schools of Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Role of Education
DeBoer, George E., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
The goal of this volume of "Research in Science Education" is to examine the relationship between science education policy and practice and the special role that science education researchers play in influencing policy. It has been suggested that the science education research community is isolated from the political process, pays little attention…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Schools of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change
Download full textCasteel, Catherine J., Ed.; Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie, Ed. – National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs, 2010
This monograph showcases professional development projects by school districts and colleges of education that train teachers to work successfully with English learners (ELs) across the nation. The papers presented in this monograph offer real-life examples of successful and innovative practices, including institutionalized mentoring programs, new…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement
Hill-Jackson, Valerie, Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
In this book, 12 distinguished scholars provide a hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, historical and theoretical critique of our schools of education, and offer clear recommendations on what must be done to ensure all children can achieve their potential, and contribute to a vibrant, democratic society. This book contains a Foreword by Peter…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Hughes, Sherick A., Ed.; Berry, Theodorea Regina, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Individuals are living, learning, and teaching by questioning how to address race in a society that consistently prefers to see itself as colorblind, a society claiming to seek a "post-racial" existence. This edited volume offers evidence of the evolving significance of race from a diverse group of male and female contributors…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Bias, Social Bias, Critical Theory
Gorlewski, Julie A., Ed.; Porfilio, Brad J., Ed.; Gorlewski, David A., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be embraced and used in ways that are consistent with critical pedagogies. Although standards, as broad frameworks for setting learning targets, are not necessarily problematic, when they are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, High Stakes Tests, Resistance (Psychology), Standardized Tests
Jean-Marie, Gaetane, Ed.; Normore, Anthony H., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This book explores the efficacy of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to educational leadership preparation implemented at universities across the United States that serve K-12 populations in urban, rural, and suburban contexts. This collection of chapters draws from seminal and contemporary literature on preparation programs, the…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Private Colleges, Interdisciplinary Approach, Doctoral Programs
Peer reviewedLeslie, W. Bruce, Ed.; Clark, John B., Ed.; O'Brien, Kenneth P., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2010
The State University of New York is America's largest comprehensive public university system, with sixty-four campuses, including community colleges, colleges of technology, university colleges, research universities, medical schools, academic medical centers, and specialized campuses in fields as diverse as optometry, ceramics, horticulture,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Planning, Equal Education, Research Universities
Bright, Larry K.; And Others – 1985
The focus of this document is on innovation and change in university professional education. During a four-year period from 1981-1985, the professional education college of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, initiated and implemented a major change process which was based on organizational leadership theory. This project is used as a case study…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Human Services
London, Bill, Ed. – 1997
This monograph contains eight paper that explore the role and value of information officers, focusing on: (1) results of a nationwide survey of educational institutions that examined the percentage of SCDE's represented by public information officers and the type of representation offered; (2) deans' perspectives on the usefulness of information…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, Deans, Higher Education
Neumann, Anna, Ed.; Peterson, Penelope L., Ed. – 1997
The autobiographical essays in this volume offer insights into how the field of education might change as women assume positions of intellectual leadership. After the "Foreword" (Mary Catherine Bateson), the 13 chapters are: (1) "Research Lives: Women, Scholarship, and Autobiography in Education" (Anna Neumann and Penelope L.…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Blacks, Educational Change, Educational Research
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1930
This document contains chapters XXIII through the Index of the Biennial Survey of Education document, covering the years 1926-1928. The following chapters are included: (23) Statistics of teachers colleges and normal schools, 1927-28; (24) Statistics of public high schools, 1927-28; (25) Statistics of private high schools and academies, 1927-28;…
Descriptors: Statistics, Schools of Education, High Schools, Delinquency
Wendel, Frederick C., Ed. – 1992
The implications of reflective practices for educational leadership are examined in this publication, which contains three papers originally presented at the 1990 Convention of the University Council for Educational Administration. Ann Hart, Nancy Sorensen, and Kerri Naylor report on applications of reflective practice to educational…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Bowen, Larry S., Ed. – 1995
This monograph contains reflections by current and former deans of schools of education on their experiences in providing leadership for change, their attempts at reform, their perceived successes and failures, and the lessons they learned. It opens with a preface by Larry S. Bowen describing the conference that led to the monograph, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, College Administration, Deans
