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Re-Imagining Schooling for Education: Socially Just Alternatives
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McGregor, G.; Mills, M.; te Riele, K.; Baroutsis, A.; Hayes, D. – Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2017
This book provokes a conversation about what supportive schooling contexts for both students and teachers might look like, and considers how schooling can contribute to a more socially-just society. It takes as its starting point the position of the most marginalised students, many of whom have either been rejected by or have rejected mainstream…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Disadvantaged Youth, Student Experience, Traditional Schools
Teacher Quality 2.0: Toward a New Era in Education Reform
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Hess, Frederick M., Ed.; McShane, Michael Q., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2014
In "Teacher Quality 2.0," American Enterprise Institute (AEI) education experts Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane convene a diverse array of contributors to examine fruitful innovations that promise to improve teacher quality in a more strategic way. Much of the cutting-edge work in teacher quality is happening in nontraditional…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Innovation
Multiliteracies: Beyond Text and the Written Word. Landscapes of Education
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Provenzo, Eugene F., Jr., Ed.; Goodwin, Amanda, Ed.; Lipsky, Miriam, Ed.; Sharpe, Sheree, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Multiliteracies: Beyond Text and the Written Word emphasizes literacies which are, or have been, common in American culture, but which tend to be ignored in more traditional discussions of literacy--specifically textual literacy. By describing multiliteracies or alternative literacies, and how they function, the authors have tried to develop a…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Nonverbal Communication, Sign Language, Signs
Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates--The Case of Charter Schools
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Henig, Jeffrey R. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
One important aim of social science research is to provide unbiased information that can help guide public policies. However, social science is often construed as politics by other means. Nowhere is the polarized nature of social science research more visible than in the heated debate over charter schools. In "Spin Cycle", noted political…
Descriptors: Evidence, Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, Social Science Research