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Direct linkLauren Schudde; Huriya Jabbar – Harvard Education Press, 2024
In "Discredited," education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions. Summarizing the key challenges of various transfer pathways, Schudde and Jabbar show how the current decentralized, bureaucracy-ridden, and often…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Postsecondary Education, Barriers, Administrative Organization
Perna, Laura W.; Finney, Joni E. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
Although the federal government invests substantial resources into student financial aid, states have the primary responsibility for policies that raise overall higher educational attainment and improve equity across groups. The importance of understanding how states may accomplish these goals has never been greater, as educational attainment is…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, State Policy, Educational Policy, Public Policy
Reilly, Cole, Ed.; Russell, Victoria, Ed.; Chehayl, Laurel K., Ed.; McDermott, Morna M., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society. Accordingly, the mission of this series is to advance…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Instruction, Theory Practice Relationship, Mathematics
Grodsky, Eric, Ed.; Kurlaender, Michal, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
This timely book examines issues pertaining to equal opportunity--affirmative action, challenges to it, and alternatives for improving opportunities for underrepresented groups--in higher education today. Its starting point is California's Proposition 209, which ended race-based affirmative action in public education and the workplace in 1996. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Demography, Student Diversity, Affirmative Action
Peterkin, Robert; Jewell-Sherman, Deborah; Kelley, Laura; Boozer, Leslie – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This book demonstrates through case studies and expert analyses the impressive educational gains children can make when the best educational research, policy, and practice are aligned. This volume is a valuable resource to aspiring leaders, educational researchers, and current practitioners and a must-read for anyone who cares about the public…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Strategic Planning, Public Schools, Equal Education
Berke, Joel S. – 1974
This study of the fiscal, legal, and political dimensions of reform in American school finance responds to the challenge of San Antonio Independent School District vs. Rodriguez. The book focuses specifically on the State of Texas and the way in which injustices were analyzed for the landmark Rodriguez case. The book goes on to describe the role…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Federal Aid
Download full textAlford, Betty J., Ed.; Perreault, George, Ed.; Zellner, Luana, Ed.; Ballenger, Julia W., Ed. – NCPEA Publications, 2011
This is the 2011 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This Yearbook contains five parts. Part I, Invited Chapters, includes: (1) NCPEA President's Message, 2011 (Gary W. Kinsey); (2) Shadows and Images II (Lloyd Duvall); and (3) Micropolitics in the School: Teacher Leaders' Use of Political Skill…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, College Faculty, Professional Associations, Yearbooks
Yeakey, Carol Camp, Ed.; Henderson, Ronald D., Ed. – 2003
This volume includes papers 16-32 in a 32-paper collection: (16) "Mining the Fields of Teacher Education: Preparing Teachers to Teach African American Children in Urban Schools" (Patricia A. Edwards, Gwendolyn T. McMillon, and Clifford T. Bennett); (17) "Mentoring Adolescents At Risk or At Promise" (Tammie M. Causey and Kassie…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescents, Affirmative Action, Black Colleges
San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. – 1987
Historical studies have tended to take a simplistic view of minority groups as passive victims of an oppressive and racist public school system. This book looks at Mexican Americans as active agents in history and documents their quest for educational equality in Texas--a state notorious for its record of inferior and separate schooling for…
Descriptors: Activism, Bilingual Education, Change Agents, Court Litigation
Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M., Ed.; Paez, Mariela M., Ed. – 2002
This book brings together leading scholars in the study of the Latino population in the United States. The papers include: "Introduction: The Research Agenda" (Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Mariela M. Paez); (1) "`Y tu que?' (Y2K): Latino History in the New Millennium" (George J. Sanchez); (2) "Islands and Enclaves:…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Bilingualism, Citizenship Responsibility
