A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologi
With an anthropologist's keen eye, the author takes us through a full year in a Japanese public elementary school, bringing us into the classroom with its comforting structure, lively participation, varied teaching styles, and non-authoritarian teachers.
Should public funds be used to support non-public education? Controversy over that question has raged since the early 19th century. This book helps lawmakers, opinion leaders, and the public to understand that voucher proposals threaten religious freedom, an already overburdened economy, the democratic structure of American education, and more.
This text describes the evolution and daily operation of the ""Primary Mental Health Project"", a school-based prevention programme that provides a practical alternative to traditional ""after-the fact"" intervention. It describes how to establish, maintain and evaluate such a programme.
The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success
Brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the evidence on the link between school resources and educational and economic outcomes. In a lively exchange of views, contributors debate whether additional spending can improve the performance of US schools.
Offers the first systematic evaluation of the offices of inspector general (OIGs) and examines the government-wide investment in the IG concept. Despite their increasingly prominent, often controversial, role in the internal oversight of government, very little is known about their institutional or operational problems.
A central theme of current efforts to reform elementary and secondary education in the United States is a more explicit focus on the outcomes of the educational system. This volume examines efforts throughout the country to hold schools accountable for the academic performance of their students.
Each year, millions of American families struggle with the expense of higher education. For the past fifty years, the US government has helped students and families pay for college; but with the entire domestic policy agenda in flux, federal aid to education hangs in the balance. This book analyses government policies for helping students pay for ......
''The quality of the contributors alone is enough to make this an excellent book. It is a valuable compendium--and bibliography--of recent thinking on the historical context of current discussions of educational reform.''--Robert A. McCaughey, Barnard College.Contributors: David Angus, Patricia Albjerg Graham, Carl F. Kaestle, Joseph F. Kett, ......
In this firsthand look at school reform in Great Britain, John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe show how the landmark Education Reform Act of 1988 imposed a radically new framework on British education - a framework built on the same types of reforms that American activists have been proposing for years: school-based management, choice, and ......
