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Education policy unravelled
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Derek Kassem |
"A comprehensive introduction the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation which supports readers to engage in contemporary policy analysis"-- Provided by publish… |
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Degrees of inequality
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Suzanne Mettler |
"America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only… |
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No Child Left Behind primer
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Frederick M. Hess,Michael J. Petrilli |
"No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is the single most influential piece of federal education legislation in American history, and Hess and Petrilli provide a concise yet comprehensive look at this importan… |
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Promoting comprehensive education in the 21st century
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Clyde Chitty,Brian Simon |
The contributors to this book argue against politicians re-introducing selection for schools. They contend that this process must be challenged if we are to avoid being thrown back into an old system… |
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Scottish Education
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D. Gillies,A. Kennedy,T. G. K. Bryce,W. M. Humes |
'Scottish Education' is a frank and authoritative commentary on every aspect of education in Scotland. It provides detailed information on pre-school, primary, secondary and tertiary education. |
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Four-dimensional education
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Charles Fadel |
The foundational reason for why we find it so difficult to rebuild school curricula around the needs of the modern world is that we lack an organizing framework that can help prioritise educational c… |
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Leave no child behind
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James P. Comer |
"The call to arms to "leave no child behind" in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration's education plan - a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Ch… |
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Transnational policy flows in European education
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Daniel Sundberg,Andreas Nordin |
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of international large-scale assessments. The life and achievements of transnational educational experts who paved the way for these assessm… |
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Seeking common ground
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David B. Tyack |
Publisher's description: The American republic will survive only if its citizens are educated--this was an article of faith of its founders. But seeking common civic ground in public schools has neve… |
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Education Policy for the 21st Century
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Lawrence B. Joseph |
This book examines a range of key issues in standards-based education reform. Contributors focus on educational trends and issues in metropolitan Chicago, state education policy in Illinois, lessons … |
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