Slaying Goliath

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525655387
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis Slaying Goliath by : Diane Ravitch

Download or read book Slaying Goliath written by Diane Ravitch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools. Diane Ravitch writes of a true grassroots movement sweeping the country, from cities and towns across America, a movement dedicated to protecting public schools from those who are funding privatization and who believe that America’s schools should be run like businesses and that children should be treated like customers or products. Slaying Goliath is about the power of democracy, about the dangers of plutocracy, and about the potential of ordinary people—armed like David with only a slingshot of ideas, energy, and dedication—to prevail against those who are trying to divert funding away from our historic system of democratically governed, nonsectarian public schools. Among the lessons learned from the global pandemic of 2020 is the importance of our public schools and their teachers and the fact that distance learning can never replace human interaction, the pesonal connection between teachers and students.

Markets, Politics and Education

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Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
ISBN 13 : 9781872452289
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Book Synopsis Markets, Politics and Education by : David Miliband

Download or read book Markets, Politics and Education written by David Miliband and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Education Reform Act

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Book Synopsis The Education Reform Act by : Leslie Bash

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The Education Reform Act

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Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780304317684
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis The Education Reform Act by : Leslie Bash

Download or read book The Education Reform Act written by Leslie Bash and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1989 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Education Reform Act 1988

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ISBN 13 : 9780850005547
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Education Reform Act 1988 by : Michael Flude

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Addicted to Reform

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Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620972433
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Addicted to Reform by : John Merrow

Download or read book Addicted to Reform written by John Merrow and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.

The Education Reform Act, 1988

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Education Reform Act, 1988 by : Michael Flude

Download or read book The Education Reform Act, 1988 written by Michael Flude and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this collection examine various aspects of the 1988 Education Reform Act, trace the origins and progress of its different elements, discuss the concerns that lay behind it and project the likely educational and social consequences of the new legislation.

Education Reform

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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335230571
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Education Reform by : Stephen Ball

Download or read book Education Reform written by Stephen Ball and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1994-09-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds upon Stephen J Ball's previous work in the field of education policy analysis. It subjects the ongoing reforms in UK education to a rigorous critical interrogation. It takes as its main concerns the introduction of market forces, managerialism and the National Curriculum into the organization of schools and the work of teachers. Ball argues that these reforms are combining to fundamentally reconstruct the work of teaching, to generate and ramify multiple inequalities and to destroy civic virtue in education. The effects of the market and management are not technical and neutral but are essentially political and moral. The reforms taking place in the UK are both a form of cultural and social engineering and an attempt to recreate a fantasy education based upon myths of national identity, consensus and glory. The analysis is founded within policy sociology and employs both ethnographic and post-structuralist methods.

U.S. Education Reform and National Security

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Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN 13 : 087609521X
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis U.S. Education Reform and National Security by : Joel I. Klein

Download or read book U.S. Education Reform and National Security written by Joel I. Klein and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.

Reforming Education and Changing Schools

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131541211X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Book Synopsis Reforming Education and Changing Schools by : Richard Bowe

Download or read book Reforming Education and Changing Schools written by Richard Bowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book, first published in 1992, was the first to look at the effects of the Act in all its aspects on the basis of empirical evidence gathered from schools over the first three years of the Act's implementation. It looks at how change is being achieved in the Local Management of Schools, the influence of the market on schools, the introduction of the National Curriculum and the place of Special Needs provision in the new education scene. This book will be of interest to all who want to know about educational reform in Britain. It will also be of interest to those in the fields of education policy, educational management and sociology of education.

Fatigued by School Reform

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475851308
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Book Synopsis Fatigued by School Reform by : Jack Jennings

Download or read book Fatigued by School Reform written by Jack Jennings and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a half-a-century of school reform, a majority of Americans consider the public schools as worse today than when they attended school. Those reforms missed the mark because they were not focused on the backgrounds of the students’ parents--by far the most important indicator of students’ progress in school. The importance of parents was documented by the Coleman Report more than 50 years ago. School reform must be continued but re-directed to over-come the power of low parental socio-economic status. The best way to improve the schools is to create a better, fairer economy providing parents with good jobs and decent wages. In the meantime, good pre-school, after-school, and other aids are needed to help students from low income families. Teacher quality, although not as influential as the parents’ backgrounds, is the second most significant indicator of student success. Teachers, like parents, have not been the focus of the attention their importance deserves. In particular, teachers should be fairly paid, and their verbal and cognitive skills improved. The Coleman Report again documented the importance of those skills more than half-a-century ago. Instead, money, time, and effort have been spent on reforms that won’t bring about great improvement because they did not address adequately those two important factors.

Education Reform

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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335192726
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (351 download)

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Book Synopsis Education Reform by : Ball, Stephen

Download or read book Education Reform written by Ball, Stephen and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds upon Stephen J Ball's previous work in the field of education policy analysis. It subjects the ongoing reforms in UK education to a rigorous critical interrogation. It takes as its main concerns the introduction of market forces, managerialism and the National Curriculum into the organization of schools and the work of teachers. Ball argues that these reforms are combining to fundamentally reconstruct the work of teaching, to generate and ramify multiple inequalities and to destroy civic virtue in education. The effects of the market and management are not technical and neutral but are essentially political and moral. The reforms taking place in the UK are both a form of cultural and social engineering and an attempt to recreate a fantasy education based upon myths of national identity, consensus and glory. The analysis is founded within policy sociology and employs both ethnographic and post-structuralist methods.

Educational Reform Legislation in the 20th Century

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429822464
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Book Synopsis Educational Reform Legislation in the 20th Century by : Gary McCulloch

Download or read book Educational Reform Legislation in the 20th Century written by Gary McCulloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written on Education Acts, yet we have abused and neglected them. The history of educational legislation has been written off as ‘Acts and facts’, and the conventional approach to writing about them has been concerned with politics, and especially with the men responsible for them. On the centenary of the 1918 Education Act and Education (Scotland) Act, and the thirtieth anniversary of the 1988 Education Reform Act, we can rightly compare them alongside the other two agenda-setting master-Acts of the 20th century, those of 1902 and 1944. These latter Acts, themselves landmarks of legislation, have each attracted several significant articles that have been published in the British Journal of Educational Studies. Between them, these provide a detailed commentary on the key legislation that has framed the development of UK education that is also open to critique and challenge. The anniversaries of these key Education Acts are also starting points for broader discussion of continuities, changes and contestation in legislation involving the regime of power, control and regulation of education. This can also include consideration of the international context and the relationship between educational and other social legislation and reform.

The Education Reform Act

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis The Education Reform Act by : Daphne Holloway

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The School Excellence and Reform Act

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Book Synopsis The School Excellence and Reform Act by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education

Download or read book The School Excellence and Reform Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Education Reform in the '90s

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Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Education Reform in the '90s by : Chester E. Finn (Jr.)

Download or read book Education Reform in the '90s written by Chester E. Finn (Jr.) and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of a two-year research project by leaders in the education field, this compelling prescription for what ails American education advises a full reworking of the system which includes professionalism and flexibility, and encourages parents to become active participants in the making of school policies.

Starting Out in Teaching

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
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Book Synopsis Starting Out in Teaching by : Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association

Download or read book Starting Out in Teaching written by Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: