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Rebell, Michael A. – University of Chicago Press, 2009
Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in "Brown v. Board of Education". "Courts and Kids" is the first detailed analysis…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Desegregation, State Courts, Federal Courts
Saltman, Kenneth J. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy, but also offers a new and different way of conceptualizing public education in response to the neoliberal climate affecting all aspects of public education. This book contains the following chapters: (1) The Trojan School: How Venture Philanthropy is Corporatizing…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Private Financial Support, Public Education, Higher Education
Beach, J. M. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
Can the U.S. keep its dominant economic position in the world economy with only 30% of its population holding bachelor's degrees? If the majority of U.S. citizens lack a higher education, can the U.S. live up to its democratic principles and preserve its political institutions? These questions raise the critical issue of access to higher…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Services, Higher Education, Community Colleges
Roza, Marguerite – Urban Institute Press, 2010
Imagine if a school were to spend more per pupil on ceramics electives than core science classes. What if a district were to push more funding to wealthy neighborhoods than to impoverished ones? Such policies would provoke outrage. Yet these schools and districts are real. Today's taxpayers spend almost $9,000 per pupil, roughly double what they…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Educational Finance, Educational Change, School Funds
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2011
At a time when the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and partner countries are trying to figure out how to reduce burgeoning debt and make the most of shrinking public budgets, spending on education is an obvious target for scrutiny. Education officials, teachers, policy makers, parents and students struggle to determine…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Time Factors (Learning), Educational Finance, International Education
Caldwell, Brian; Vaughan, Tanya – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely. Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Numeracy, Educational Finance
Odden, Allan R. – Corwin, 2012
How do you stay focused on increasing student learning when budget cuts threaten everything you are striving for? This book offers a comprehensive framework to enhance student achievement in good times and in bad. School reform expert Allan R. Odden outlines a school improvement action plan focused sharply on student learning and then shows how to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Educational Change, Resource Allocation
Ball, Stephen J. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in its "welfare" form? Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of "best practice" based on the methods and tenets of the "neo-liberal imaginary".…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Global Education, Educational Finance, Network Analysis
Aubry, Carla, Ed.; Westberg, Johannes, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The relationship between education policy and local practices is at the core of research pertaining to the history of education. In this volume, the authors examine this issue from a multitude of perspectives, presenting a broad and comprehensive picture of schooling on international, national and local levels. Three issues of great significance,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, International Education, Global Approach
Lockheed, Marlaine E. – OECD Publishing, 2015
This report provides a systematic review and empirical evidence related to the experiences of middle-income countries and economies participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2000 to 2015. PISA is a triennial survey that aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
Alexander, Hanan A., Ed.; Agbaria, Ayman K., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
As liberal democracies include increasingly diverse and multifaceted populations, the longstanding debate about the role of the state in religious education and the place of religion in public life seems imperative now more than ever. The maintenance of religious schools and the planning of religious education curricula raise a profound challenge.…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Education, Financial Support, Democracy
Hanushek, Erik A., Ed.; Machin, Stephen J., Ed.; Woessmann, Ludger, Ed. – Elsevier, 2011
What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make sense of the investments and…
Descriptors: Economics, Personality, Psychology, Educational Benefits
Thompson, David C.; Wood, R. Craig; Crampton, Faith E. – Eye on Education, 2008
For future principals and others enrolled in courses on School Finance, this book explains and demonstrates the relationship between money and student achievement. New to this edition: (1) Includes updated information on the ever-changing landscape of school finance; (2) Co-author Faith E. Crampton has joined the author team, applying the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Debate
Levin, Barbara B.; Schrum, Lynne – Teachers College Press, 2012
This timely book shows how award-winning secondary schools and districts are successfully using technology and making systemic changes to increase student engagement, improve achievement, and re-invigorate the teaching and learning process. Through in-depth case studies, we see how experienced school and district leaders use technology in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, School Culture, Educational Change, Case Studies
National Academies Press, 2010
Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Health Personnel, Professional Development
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