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Collins, Christina – Teachers College Press, 2011
Why did the New York City school district once have the lowest ratio of minority teachers to minority students of any large urban school system in the country? Using an array of historical sources, this provocative book explores the barriers that African American and Latino candidates faced in attempting to become public school teachers in New…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Race, Public Schools
Marzano, Robert; Livingston, David; Frontier, Tony – ASCD, 2011
It's true that even modest improvements in teacher effectiveness can lead to impressive gains in student achievement. But what hasn't been clear is what exactly district leaders should do to encourage and support teachers in practicing the art and science of great teaching ... until now. Like in his landmark book "The Art and Science of Teaching",…
Descriptors: Expertise, Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Recognition (Achievement)
Lauzon, Glenn P. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
How do people use education to respond to change? How do people learn what is expected of "good citizens" in their communities? These questions have long concerned educational historians, civic educators, and social scientists. In recent years, they have captured national attention through high-profile education reform proposals and…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Municipalities, Rural Population, Educational History
Zimmerman, Lynn W. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
This collection of essays examines the historical, social, cultural, and educational foundations of ESL/EFL/Bilingual Education. The four themes of this book are: (1) Historical, Legal and Political Foundations of Bilingual/ESL Education; (2) Linguistic and Sociocultural Issues in ESL/EFL Education; (3) Educational Reform and English Language…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Guidelines
Ravitch, Diane – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
Have you ever heard of Suggestopedia? Do you know what a gallery walk is? How about the difference between a stem and a foil? Maybe you don't think it's necessary to know these education terms. Diane Ravitch thinks otherwise. Education, like most professions, has its own unique vocabulary that is often unfamiliar to outsiders. But unlike those of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Definitions, Glossaries, Education
Li, Jin – Cambridge University Press, 2012
Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr. Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship
LaSpina, James Andrew – SUNY Press, 2009
"California in a Time of Excellence" follows the Golden State's efforts to reform its public school system from 1983 to the present. Beginning with progressive curriculum reform initiatives that were launched even before the National Commission on Excellence in Education (NCEE) issued "A Nation at Risk" in 1983, James Andrew…
Descriptors: Educational Change, State Programs, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
Pritchard, Rosalind M. O. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2011
The paradigmatic values underlying British and German higher education emphasise personal growth, the wholeness of the individual, intellectual freedom and the pursuit of knowledge, which cumulatively can be viewed as a form of academic essentialism. However, these concepts were generated within a particular cultural and historical context which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Political Attitudes, Educational Principles
McGregor, Heather E. – University of British Columbia Press, 2010
Since the mid-twentieth century, sustained contact between Inuit and newcomers has led to profound changes in education in the Eastern Arctic, including the experience of colonization and progress toward the re-establishment of traditional education in schools. The milestone of the establishment of Nunavut Territory in 1999 was followed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Education, Rural Schools, Educational History
Rury, John L.; Hill, Shirley A. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This is the first comprehensive account of African American secondary education in the postwar era. Drawing on quantitative datasets, as well as oral history, this compelling narrative examines how African Americans narrowed the racial gap in high school completion. The authors explore regional variations in high school attendance across the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Urban Schools, Oral History, Race
Abi-Mershed, Osama, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Trajectories of Education in the Arab World" gives a broad yet detailed historical and geographical overview of education in Arab countries. Drawing on pre-modern and modern educational concepts, systems, and practices in the Arab world, this book examines the impact of Western cultural influence, the opportunities for reform and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Educational Change, Sustainability
Bohan, Chara Haeussler, Ed.; Many, Joyce E., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Clinical Teacher Education focuses on how to build a school-university partnership network for clinical teacher education in urban school systems serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The labor intensive nature of professional development school work has resulted in research institutions being slow to fully adopt a clinical…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Professional Development Schools, Action Research
Yiakoumetti, Androula, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2012
This volume brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States and explores efforts to incorporate linguistic diversity into education and to "harness" this diversity for learners' benefit. It challenges the largely…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Pidgins, Creoles
VanderVen, Elizabeth R. – University of British Columbia Press, 2012
In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a series of institutional reforms to shore up its power. The most important were a nationwide school system and the abolition of the centuries-old civil examinations. "A School in Every Village" recounts how villagers and local state officials in Haicheng County enacted orders to establish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Counties, Rural Schools, Educational Policy
Berman, Elizabeth Popp – Princeton University Press, 2012
American universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities self-consciously held themselves apart from the world of commerce. "Creating the Market University" is…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Industry, Universities, Intellectual Property