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Direct linkWrigley, Terry, Ed.; Thomson, Pat, Ed.; Lingard, Robert, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Changing Schools" places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on 14 case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented environmental and cultural challenges, the education…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Human Capital, Laboratory Schools
Stokes, Laura; St. John, Mark; Helms, Jenifer – Inverness Research, 2008
Inverness Research has served as the external evaluation group for the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession (CSTP) since its inception in 2003. As evaluators, Inverness conceptualizes projects as investments in improvement, and it examines the returns on those investments. The direct services of projects and their immediate outcomes…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Teaching (Occupation), Evaluators, Program Effectiveness
Buchen, Irving H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
The focus of this book is to explore the extent to which our thinking, learning, and leading is influenced and shaped by the future. In the process, professionals and organizations are classified into three basic types: future-oriented, future-poised, and future-driven. The last typically employs divergent and convergent thinking and planning; and…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Innovation, Creative Thinking, Labor Force Development
Peer reviewedPencavel, John – Journal of Economic Education, 1991
Provides a review of research on the contribution of education to the organization and productivity of a nation's resources. Focuses on what is known about the particular contribution of higher education to U.S. economic growth. Discusses the relationship between earnings and additional schooling. Concludes that increased education probably has…
Descriptors: Economics, Educational Economics, Higher Education, Human Capital
Download full textTsang, Mun C. – 1988
The cost of education to a country consists of total public education expenditures, total direct private cost, and total indirect private cost measured in terms of foregone earnings; improperly estimated educational costs focus only on government education expenditures. Considerable progress has been made in conceptual understanding of educational…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Developing Nations, Economic Development
