Search Results - "Education reform"

Education in post-colonial Ghana teachers, schools and bureaucracy / by Osei, G. M.

Table of Contents: “…Life in a typical Ghanaian junior high school -- The context for educational reform -- Educational decentralisation reform -- Connecting present conditions to their historical past -- Two disparate worlds -- Ghanaian teachers' devotion to the education system -- Implementation of policy at the local level -- Rightful resistance and autonomy at St. …”
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Education in post-colonial Ghana teachers, schools and bureaucracy / by Osei, G. M.

Table of Contents: “…Life in a typical Ghanaian junior high school -- The context for educational reform -- Educational decentralisation reform -- Connecting present conditions to their historical past -- Two disparate worlds -- Ghanaian teachers' devotion to the education system -- Implementation of policy at the local level -- Rightful resistance and autonomy at St. …”
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Who's teaching your children? why the teacher crisis is worse than you think and what can be done about it / by Troen, Vivian, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…-- Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be teachers -- Band-aids and boondoggles : the myths and realities of "education reform" -- The Millennium School : a total approach to solving the fundamental problems of elementary school education.…”
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Who's teaching your children? why the teacher crisis is worse than you think and what can be done about it / by Troen, Vivian, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…-- Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be teachers -- Band-aids and boondoggles : the myths and realities of "education reform" -- The Millennium School : a total approach to solving the fundamental problems of elementary school education.…”
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Degrees of Dignity : Arab Higher Education in the Global Era / by Buckner, Elizabeth

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Degrees of Dignity : Arab Higher Education in the Global Era / by Buckner, Elizabeth

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To know her own history : writing at the woman's college, 1943-1963 / by Ritter, Kelly

Table of Contents: “…Her history matters: the United States normal school and the roots of women's public education -- In her own words: the yearling and first-year writing, 1948-51 -- Revisionist history: general education reform from Harvard University to the woman's college, 1943-56 -- The double-helix of creative/composition: Randall Jarrell, May Bush, and the politics of writing programs, 1947-63 -- What's in a name? …”
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To know her own history : writing at the woman's college, 1943-1963 / by Ritter, Kelly

Table of Contents: “…Her history matters: the United States normal school and the roots of women's public education -- In her own words: the yearling and first-year writing, 1948-51 -- Revisionist history: general education reform from Harvard University to the woman's college, 1943-56 -- The double-helix of creative/composition: Randall Jarrell, May Bush, and the politics of writing programs, 1947-63 -- What's in a name? …”
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Researching education through actor-network theory

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tara Fenwick and Richard Edwards -- Devices and educational change / Jan Nespor -- Translating the prescribed into the enacted curriculum in college and school / Richard Edwards -- Unruly practices: what a sociology of translations can offer to educational policy analysis / Mary Hamilton -- ANT on the PISA trail: following the statistical pursuit of certainty / Radhika Gorur -- Assembling the "accomplished" teacher: the performativity and politics of professional teaching standards / Dianne Mulcahy -- Reading educational reform with actor network theory: fluid spaces, otherings, and ambivalences / Tara Fenwick.…”
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Researching education through actor-network theory

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tara Fenwick and Richard Edwards -- Devices and educational change / Jan Nespor -- Translating the prescribed into the enacted curriculum in college and school / Richard Edwards -- Unruly practices: what a sociology of translations can offer to educational policy analysis / Mary Hamilton -- ANT on the PISA trail: following the statistical pursuit of certainty / Radhika Gorur -- Assembling the "accomplished" teacher: the performativity and politics of professional teaching standards / Dianne Mulcahy -- Reading educational reform with actor network theory: fluid spaces, otherings, and ambivalences / Tara Fenwick.…”
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The case for STEM education : challenges and opportunities / by Bybee, Rodger W.

Table of Contents: “…-- How is STEM education different from other education reforms? -- STEM seems to be the answer-what was the question? …”
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The case for STEM education : challenges and opportunities / by Bybee, Rodger W.

Table of Contents: “…-- How is STEM education different from other education reforms? -- STEM seems to be the answer-what was the question? …”
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Public engagement for public education joining forces to revitalize democracy and equalize schools /

Table of Contents: “…Henig -- Public engagement and the coproduction of public education / Donn Worgs -- Democratic institutions, public engagement, and Latinos in American public schools / Luis Ricardo Fraga and Ann Frost -- Community organizing for education reform / Mark R. Warren -- Broad-based public engagement : alliances and social movements / Lauren Wells, Jean Anyon, and Jeannie Oakes -- Improving teacher quality through public engagement in Chicago / Sara McAlister, Kavitha Mediratta, and Seema Shah -- "A force to be reckoned with" the campaign for college access in Los Angeles / John Rogers and Ernest Morrell -- "Together we can" in Mobile : a coalition across lines of race and class / Brenda J. …”
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Public engagement for public education joining forces to revitalize democracy and equalize schools /

Table of Contents: “…Henig -- Public engagement and the coproduction of public education / Donn Worgs -- Democratic institutions, public engagement, and Latinos in American public schools / Luis Ricardo Fraga and Ann Frost -- Community organizing for education reform / Mark R. Warren -- Broad-based public engagement : alliances and social movements / Lauren Wells, Jean Anyon, and Jeannie Oakes -- Improving teacher quality through public engagement in Chicago / Sara McAlister, Kavitha Mediratta, and Seema Shah -- "A force to be reckoned with" the campaign for college access in Los Angeles / John Rogers and Ernest Morrell -- "Together we can" in Mobile : a coalition across lines of race and class / Brenda J. …”
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Reaching for a new deal : ambitious governance, economic meltdown, and polarized politics in Obama's first two years /

Table of Contents: “…Warren -- Surprising momentum: spurring education reform in states and localities / Lorraine M. …”
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Reaching for a new deal : ambitious governance, economic meltdown, and polarized politics in Obama's first two years /

Table of Contents: “…Warren -- Surprising momentum: spurring education reform in states and localities / Lorraine M. …”
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Standards-based reform and the poverty gap lessons for No Child Left Behind /

Table of Contents: “…/ Adam Gamoran -- Standards-based educational reform is one important step toward reducing the achievement gap / Barbara R. …”
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Standards-based reform and the poverty gap lessons for No Child Left Behind /

Table of Contents: “…/ Adam Gamoran -- Standards-based educational reform is one important step toward reducing the achievement gap / Barbara R. …”
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The state of the African American male

Table of Contents: “…Zamani-Gallaher and Yvonne Callaway -- The state of public school violence: a quandary / Anthony Troy Adams -- Uneasy ties: race, gender identity, and urban education reform for African American males / James Earl Davis -- Coming out of the HIV/AIDS closet: the disparate impact of HIV/AIDS on African American men / Derrick L. …”
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Anglo-German scholarly networks in the long nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Institutional infrastructures -- Enlightened networks : Anglo-German collaboration in classical scholarship / Heather Ellis -- Higher education reform and the German model : a Victorian discourse / John Davis -- Part 2. …”
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