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Arum, Richard; Roksa, Josipa – University of Chicago Press, 2010
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they're born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Criticism, Role of Education, Student Evaluation
Johnson, Dale D.; Johnson, Bonnie; Farenga, Stephen J.; Ness, Daniel – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005
This book presents a critical analysis of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). This accreditation organization has been in existence for 50 years and claims to accredit approximately 700 teacher education programs that prepare two-thirds of the nation's teachers. There is no convincing research, however, that…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), National Organizations, Teacher Education, Criticism
Irwin, Judith W. – 1996
This text examines the forces that keep educators and students from feeling fully empowered, that is, gaining the power to self-actualize and to facilitate this process for others. A feminist perspective is used to consider directions for educational reform and innovation broadly under an umbrella philosophy of empowerment, suggesting a paradigm…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education