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Loveless, Tom – Harvard Education Press, 2021
"Between the State and the Schoolhouse" examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative's promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in the long history of state and federal efforts to shape education, the book describes a series of critical lessons that highlight the political and structural…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Educational History, Educational Change, Government Role
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Studies in Educational Ethnography, 2021
Charter schools continue to grow in influence, as does the push for inclusive education for students with disabilities. What is the value and impact of these schools, especially on the marginalized populations they often serve? Relying on the fields of DisCrit, and Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education, this book answers these questions by…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Disadvantaged
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Sharon Clancy – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2023
This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Spiritual Development, Administrators
Cuban, Larry – Harvard Education Press, 2020
Eminent historian and educator Larry Cuban provides a thorough examination of, and challenge to, past and present definitions of what constitutes educational success in the US. Cuban argues that in the history of American education, standards of achievement and inadequacy--as well as the reform efforts issuing from them--have been neither stable…
Descriptors: Success, Educational History, Academic Standards, Educational Change
Woodin, Tom, Ed.; Shaw, Linda, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2019
"Learning for a Co-operative World" traces the remarkable growth of co-operative education over the decades and critically evaluates its forms today, the implications for formal and informal learning, and its potential for the future. It considers key elements of co-operative education and learning across the age range and in diverse…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Educational History, Colleges, Democracy
Evans, Ronald W. – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
By exploring the tensions, impacts, and origins of major controversies relating to schooling and curricula since the early twentieth century, this insightful text illustrates how fear has played a key role in steering the development of education in the United States. Through rigorous historical investigation, Evans demonstrates how numerous…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Educational Development, Educational History, Fear
Neitzel, Jen; Mead, Ebonyse – Brookes Publishing Company, 2023
The goal of every early educator is to prepare all students for school success--but for young Black children, entrenched biases and racial inequities have created an achievement gap that must be closed. Transform your practices "and" work for systemic change with this visionary guidebook, a comprehensive roadmap to promoting racial…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Race, Early Childhood Education, Academic Achievement
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Silvia Romero-Contreras, Editor; Ismael Garci´a-Cedillo, Editor; Luz Mari´a Moreno-Medrano, Editor – International Perspectives on Inclusive Education, 2024
Quality education is a human right and all individuals and peoples regardless of their social, ethnic, personal, economic, gender, or religion, should be able to participate and engage in productive and lifelong learning. This volume explores the ways in which intercultural and inclusive education have been addressed in Latin America through…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Quality, Multicultural Education, Diversity
K. Tsianina Lomawaima; Teresa L. McCarty – Teachers College Press, 2024
"To Remain an Indian" traces the footprints of Indigenous education in what is now the United States. Native Peoples' educational systems are rooted in ways of knowing and being that have endured for millennia, despite the imposition of colonial schooling. In this second edition, the authors amplify their theoretical framework of settler…
Descriptors: Democracy, American Indian Education, Tribal Sovereignty, Tribally Controlled Education
Popkewitz, Thomas S., Ed.; Pettersson, Daniel, Ed.; Hsiao, Kai-Jung, Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2020
The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Research
Sarapli, Onur – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2020
In today's Turkey under the Justice and Development administration, it seems that religion becomes or is imposed as an important element of the Turkish national identity. The education system works as the channel for promoting this change. Thus, the case of Turkey is that of a nation-state that has been under construction since it emerged from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Educational Policy, Religious Factors
Woolley, Mary – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2019
This book explores changing practice in history classrooms from the autonomy of the 1980s through the introduction of GCSEs and the National Curriculum to the prescription of the National Strategies and the pervasive influence of league tables in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It uses individual narratives from history teachers to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Barriers
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Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Smolentseva, Anna, Ed.; Froumin, Isak, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2018
This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Social Change
McClellan, George S.; Hutchens, Neal H. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2021
This book contains vital information on the historical, philosophical, and legal foundations for shared governance, and it makes the link between fundamentals of law and policy as related to professional practice in student affairs. Practical insights and suggestions for student affairs are offered for practitioners at all levels to ensure…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Governance, Higher Education, Educational History
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Thomas, Dave S. P., Ed.; Arday, Jason, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
This book provides a forensic and collective examination of pre-existing understandings of structural inequalities in Higher Education Institutions. Going beyond the current understandings of causal factors that promote inequality, the editors and contributors illuminate the dynamic interplay between historical events and discourse and more…
Descriptors: Diversity, Equal Education, Correlation, Educational History
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