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Direct linkBiesta, Gert; Heugh, Kathleen; Cervinkova, Hana; Rasinski, Lotar; Osborne, Sam; Forde, Deirdre; Wrench, Alison; Carter, Jenni; Säfström, Carl Anders; Soong, Hannah; O'Keeffe, Suzanne; Paige, Kathryn; Rigney, Lester-Irabinna; O'Toole, Leah; Hattam, Robert; Peters, Michael A.; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Public education is not just a way to organise and fund education. It is also the expression of a particular ideal about education and of a particular way to conceive of the relationship between education and society. The ideal of public education sees education as an important dimension of the common good and as an important institution in…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Philosophy, Correlation, Neoliberalism
Download full textO'Donoghue, Tom; Harford, Judith – South African Journal of Education, 2010
There is a great deal of talk about a crisis in teaching across the English-speaking world, about the quality of teachers leaving much to be desired, and about the quality of student outcomes dropping. This, in turn, has resulted in various aspects of teacher preparation coming under severe scrutiny. In general, disquiet has been voiced about the…
Descriptors: Generalization, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness
Mertens, Steven B., Ed; Anfara, Vincent A., Ed.; Roney, Kathleen, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
Studies like the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have compared the performance of U.S. middle grade students (i.e., eighth graders) to those in other countries. In relation to middle grade schools, 20 countries outperformed the United States in mathematics and nine countries scored above the U.S. in science. The intent of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, International Education, Comparative Education, Educational Research
