Continuous Educational Improvement, Journey to Sustainability
Almost everyone considers himself or herself an authority on education because he or she has been to school. Depending on whether the school experience was a good one or not so good, people develop belief systems about what school should be. The authors of this book say that what schools should be is continuously improving.
Continuous Educational Improvement, Journey to Sustainability
Almost everyone considers himself or herself an authority on education because he or she has been to school. Depending on whether the school experience was a good one or not so good, people develop belief systems about what school should be. The authors of this book say that what schools should be is continuously improving.
"What is wrong with our schools?" is the question everyone seems to be asking, or more like screaming nowadays. Standard answers point to everything from school funding to unions to bureaucracies and more. In this book, Daniel Buck provides a different answer: flawed ideas-ideas about instruction, curriculum, even human nature itself-are the root ......
Forewords by Professor Robert Bjork and Emeritus Professor Dylan Wiliam.
If you feel a bit cross at the presumption of some oik daring to suggest everything you know about education might be wrong, please take it with a pinch of salt. It's just a title. Of course, you probably ......
If you feel a bit cross at the presumption of some oik daring to suggest everything you know about education might be wrong, please take it with a pinch of salt. What if everything you knew about education was wrong? is just a title. Of course, you probably think a great many things that ......
Assimilation, Americanization, and Fulfilling the Middle Class Ethic
Vicious Circles traces the history of development of public education and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light us...
Assimilation, Americanization, and Fulfilling the Middle Class Ethic
Vicious Circles traces the history of development of public education and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light us...
The scope of this book embraces a dynamic discussion of the value of traditional public education in the US compared with the free market of schooling expressed by privatization/choice education.
Understanding Authority in Higher Education clarifies issues of authority in an academic setting. Throughout, it introduces basic concepts of higher-education administration and then examines the limits of authority in context.
