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Author : Jim Cumming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780731302857
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Reforming Schools Through Workplace Learning written by Jim Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adria Steinberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135249393
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Real Learning, Real Work written by Adria Steinberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-11-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. A central paradox of American education today is that classrooms are often not conducive to learning. Young people who are bright, active participants in outside-of- school settings become disengaged or hostile in the classroom. Through detailed portrayals of innovative programs, Real Learning, Real Work demonstrates how students can learn to embrace what they learn in the classroom when they are able to use the intellectual tools of the sciences and the humanities to make sense of their outside experience.
Download or read book Six Years on written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report includes a summary of the key findings from current research into the use of structured workplace learning and relates these back to the findings and issues identified in the 1997 report, Reforming schools through workplace learning. It also includes case studies of six schools, incorporating a brief synopsis of the situation in 1996, and comparing that with current use of workplace based learning in schools.
Author : Nina Bascia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402032013
Total Pages : 1129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book International Handbook of Educational Policy written by Nina Bascia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina Bascia, Alister Cumming, Amanda Datnow, Kenneth Leithwood and David Livingstone This Handbook presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research, in over ?fty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number of countries. It is organized into ?ve broad sections which capture many of the current dominant educational policy foci and at the same time situate current understandings historically, in terms of both how they are conceptualized and in terms of past policy practice. The chapters themselves are empirically grounded, providing illustrations of the conceptual implications c- tained within them as well as allowing for comparisons across them. The se- re?exivity within chapters with respect to jurisdictional particularities and c- trasts allows readers to consider not only a range of approaches to policy analysis but also the ways in which policies and policy ideas play out in di?erent times and places. The sections move from a focus on prevailing policy tendencies through increasingly critical and ‘‘outsider’’ perspectives on policy. They address, in turn, the contemporary strategic emphasis on large-scale reform; substantive emphases at several levels – on leadership and governance, improving teacher quality and conceptualizing learning in various domains around the notion of literacies and concluding, ?nally, with a contrasting topic, workplace learning, which has had less policy attention and thus allows readers to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of learning and teaching under the bright gaze of policy.
Author : Thomas R. Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942358
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Working Knowledge written by Thomas R. Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on five years of research in high school and community college programs, this book explores the potential for using work-based learning as part of a broad education reform strategy.
Author : Kathryn Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134586701
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Leadership for Change and School Reform written by Kathryn Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School reform is a top priority for governments today. This timely and challenging book, edited by leading international researchers, Kathryn Riley and Karen Seashore Louis, offers a rich comparative perspective on leadership for change and school reform. Contributors form North America, Europe and Australia demonstrate how school leadership is influenced by global pressures, differing national and state contexts and local concerns. They illustrate the limitations of reform initiatives which focus on school leaders tot he exclusion of the many other organisations which affect school, such as national and local governments, professional associations and school communities. This book raises some important questions such as: *How can school leaders create intelligent, thinking schools? *How can leadership and learning be linked together? *What are the characteristics of effective local education authorities and school districts? *What is the role of teacher organisations in educational reform and change? *What happens if businesses, teachers, parents and local communities have different views of what makes a good school? The text illustrates the ways in which leadership is rooted in learning, and identifies new directions for school leadership. It challenges conventional notions of leadership, offering an expanded view, which sees leadership just as an individual role-based function, but as a network of relationships among people, structures and cultures. This lively and provocative book should be read by all those interested in education reform.
Author : Esther Quintero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781682530382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Teaching in Context written by Esther Quintero and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching in Context provides new evidence from a range of leading scholars showing that teachers become more effective when they work in organizations that support them in comprehensive and coordinated ways. The studies featured in the book suggest an alternative approach to enhancing teacher quality: creating conditions and school structures that facilitate the transmission and sharing of knowledge among teachers, allowing teachers to work together effectively, and capitalizing on what we know about how educators learn and improve. The chapters in this book point to the need to reevaluate current policies for assessing and ensuring teacher effectiveness, and establish the foundation for a more thoughtful, research-informed approach. "What a wonderful collection of diverse voices in this book, all sounding a similar message. Successful schools encourage and support purposeful collaboration among adults and they focus on students. In these schools, teachers feel more rewarded for their efforts and students learn more. Practitioners and researchers understand these findings. Now, let's build education policies that enable them." --John Q. Easton, vice president of programs, Spencer Foundation "Teaching in Context is a call to action--one to which Esther Quintero and her colleagues invite us to imagine, build, nurture, and protect a profession and culture fueled by supportive networks that produce more trust and less churn." --Ralph R. Smith, managing director, Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Esther Quintero is a senior fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute. Andy Hargreaves is the Brennan Chair in Education at Boston College.
Author : David Neumark
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610444264
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Improving School-to-Work Transitions written by David Neumark and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As anxieties about America's economic competitiveness mounted in the 1980s, so too did concerns that the nation's schools were not adequately preparing young people for the modern workplace. Spurred by widespread joblessness and job instability among young adults, the federal government launched ambitious educational reforms in the 1990s to promote career development activities for students. In recent years, however, the federal government has shifted its focus to test-based reforms like No Child Left Behind that emphasize purely academic subjects. At this critical juncture in education reform, Improving School-To-Work Transitions, edited by David Neumark, weighs the successes and failures of the '90s-era school-to-work initiatives, and assesses how high schools, colleges, and government can help youths make a smoother transition into stable, well-paying employment. Drawing on evidence from national longitudinal studies, surveys, interviews, and case studies, the contributors to Improving School-To-Work Transitions offer thought-provoking perspectives on a variety of aspects of the school-to-work problem. Deborah Reed, Christopher Jepsen, and Laura Hill emphasize the importance of focusing school-to-work programs on the diverse needs of different demographic groups, particularly immigrants, who represent a growing proportion of the youth population. David Neumark and Donna Rothstein investigate the impact of school-to-work programs on the "forgotten half," students at the greatest risk of not attending college. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth, they find that participation by these students in programs like job shadowing, mentoring, and summer internships raise employment and college attendance rates among men and earnings among women. In a study of nine high schools with National Academy Foundation career academies, Terry Orr and her fellow researchers find that career academy participants are more engaged in school and are more likely to attend a four-year college than their peers. Nan Maxwell studies the skills demanded in entry-level jobs and finds that many supposedly "low-skilled" jobs actually demand extensive skills in reading, writing, and math, as well as the "new basic skills" of communication and problem-solving. Maxwell recommends that school districts collaborate with researchers to identify which skills are most in demand in their local labor markets. At a time when test-based educational reforms are making career development programs increasingly vulnerable, it is worth examining the possibilities and challenges of integrating career-related learning into the school environment. Written for educators, policymakers, researchers, and anyone concerned about how schools are shaping the economic opportunities of young people, Improving School-To-Work Transitions provides an authoritative guide to a crucial issue in education reform.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Comprehensive School Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Six Years on written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report includes a summary of the key findings from current research into the use of structured workplace learning and relates these back to the findings and issues identified in the 1997 report, Reforming schools through workplace learning. It also includes case studies of six schools, incorporating a brief synopsis of the situation in 1996, and comparing that with current use of workplace based learning in schools.
Author : Richard Rothstein
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807745564
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Class and Schools written by Richard Rothstein and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to Richard Rothstein, "Closing the gaps between lower-class and middle-class children requires social and economic reform as well as school improvement. Unfortunately, the trend is to shift most of the burden to schools, as if they alone can eradicate poverty and inequality." In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school. This book features: a summary of numerous studies linking school achievement to health care quality, nutrition, childrearing styles, housing stability, parental economic security, and more ; aA look at erroneous and misleading data that underlie commonplace claims that some schools "beat the demographic odds and therefore any school can close the achievement gap if only it adopted proper practices." ; and an analysis of how the over-emphasis of standardized tests in federal law obscures the true achievement gap and makes narrowing it more difficult.
Author : Denise Gelberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438403917
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Business of Reforming American Schools written by Denise Gelberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the influence of the business community on schools, this book describes how popular business management theories and production processes have been imported into schools during periods of societal upheaval in order to create a sense of order and efficiency while meeting the objective of producing a workforce that meets the specifications set down by employers. Unlike other books that say why schools need to be reformed or how that reform should proceed, this study takes a critical look at the latest call to restructure schools in light of the economic, social, and political forces that affect the education establishment and the children of our nation.
Author : William B. Bonvillian
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262361477
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Workforce Education written by William B. Bonvillian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training. The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, we have increasing inequality, not economic convergence. Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. In Workforce Education, William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma offer a roadmap for rebuilding America's working class. They argue that we need to train more workers more quickly, and they describe innovative methods of workforce education that are being developed across the country.
Author : Phillip C. Schlechty
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Inventing Better Schools written by Phillip C. Schlechty and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1997-03-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that schools must change or become obsolete, and that old rules and relationships need to be re-thought. It provides the tools needed to re-invent schools to better serve students and teachers.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Education Reforms written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Education Reforms written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adria Steinberg
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Schooling for the Real World written by Adria Steinberg and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how schools can create work-based curricula as opposed to narrow vocational programs, providing practical guidance for combining academic instruction with learning in real-world settings, as well as setting standards and goals and assessing student work.
