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McMahon, Walter, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This series addresses the relation of education to knowledge-based growth and broader measures of development beyond growth, central features of the modern world in which education has a central role. This role includes the effects of education on pure economic growth including its effects on the creation, adaptation, and dissemination of new…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Expenditure per Student, Higher Education, Human Capital
Griffin, Rosarii, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2012
In the drive to achieve universal primary education as one of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing recognition of the urgency of focusing on teacher education to both meet the demand for more than one million qualified teachers required to achieve this goal within sub-Saharan Africa, as well as to combat the sometimes poor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Capacity Building, Educational Research
Gilman, Barbara J. – Great Potential Press, Inc., 2008
Formerly titled "Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works", the author believes this book is the definitive manual on gifted advocacy for gifted students. The author tells parents and teachers how to document a child's abilities to provide reasonable educational options year by year. This book provides imperative information on…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Academically Gifted, Learning Disabilities, Underachievement
Martin-Kniep, Giselle O.; Picone-Zocchia, Joanne – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2009
Two experienced teacher educators describe a framework for effective teaching that can be applied in any subject area and grade level. Their detailed review of the structures, processes, and content of effective practice provides you with lots of practical tips you can use right away, including: (1) How to teach both the depth and the breadth of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation, Instructional Improvement, Curriculum Implementation
Rothblatt, Sheldon – Symposium Books, 2007
The conflict between access and quality in education has been front-page news for decades. Policies regarding the role of elite universities, the organisation of secondary education, admissions criteria, courses of study, high stakes testing, and fiscal and programme accountability have changed with uncommon frequency, resulting in confusion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Quality, Conflict
Alcorn, Noeline – NZCER Press, 2010
This book makes available to a wider audience for the first time material based on fieldwork carried out by the Solomon Island researchers in their own country. The findings will have vital relevance to policy makers, teachers and students. Over the past four years the School of Education, Solomon Islands College of Higher Education and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Educational Quality, Teacher Education Programs
Johnson, Susan Moore – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
This important and much-needed book is based on a longitudinal study of fifty new teachers during their first years in the classroom. It highlights the cases of ten, whose stories vividly illustrate the joys and disappointments of new teachers in today's schools. The book documents why they entered teaching, what they encountered in their schools,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Teacher Educators, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
Morrow, Lesley Mandel – Guilford Publications, 2007
Preschoolers are passionate about learning, and a high-quality preschool program offers rich learning experiences in the areas of language and literacy. This engaging book gives teachers and other professionals fresh ideas, inspiration, and practical tools for integrating age-appropriate literacy instruction into the preschool curriculum.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Literacy Education, Classroom Environment, Preschool Curriculum
DeYoung, Alan J. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Being a "student" has been and remains a highly desirable status for young people and their families in Kyrgyzstan. "Giving their children education" (dat detyam obrazovaniye)--meaning "higher education"--has become an imperative for many parents, even in a time of serious economic and social decline. The numbers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Policy Analysis, College Role
Hoffman, Marvin – Teachers College Press, 2007
In this volume in the "Between Teacher and Text Series", the author provides a contemporary interpretation of the 1967 text "Letter to a Teacher by the Schoolboys of Barbiana". The original text, a searing indictment of class bias in Italian schools, was released in English in 1970, and its ideas about education and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational History, Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries
Green, Ken – Paul Chapman Publishing, 2008
This easy-to-use introduction explores all of the contemporary issues and enduring themes in physical education, focusing on the United Kingdom but incorporating a global dimension. The wide range of topics covered include: (1) the requirements of National Curriculum Physical Education; (2) the current "state" of physical education; (3)…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Ethnicity, Social Class
Day, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from 18 countries across 7 continents, the 40 chapters are grouped into 10 themes which represent key aspects of teacher and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Expectation, Teaching (Occupation), Accountability
Keeley, Brian – OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2007
This first book in the new OECD Insights Series examines the increasing economic and social importance of human capital--our education, skills, competencies, and knowledge. As economies in developed countries shift away from manufacturing, economic success for individuals and national economies is increasingly reliant on the quality of human…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations
Petersen, George J., Ed.; Fusarelli, Lance, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006
The primary contribution of this book, is not its advocacy of a specific position but rather, its objective analysis of cogent topics. The content prompts individuals to consider governance in relation to quality education and to ponder alternative policy strategies that have yet to be fully evaluated. As a young doctoral student more than a few…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Quality, Boards of Education, Educational Policy
Christenbury, Leila – Teachers College Press, 2007
Leila Christenbury is well known as a writer and researcher in English Education: her classic book "Making the Journey," [ED437654] now in its third edition, has been a guide to countless middle and high school language arts teachers. In her new book, this veteran teacher and teacher educator reveals what did and---more surprisingly---did not…
Descriptors: Middle Class, High Schools, English Teachers, High Stakes Tests
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