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Direct linkRotberg, Iris C., Ed.; Glazer, Joshua L., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2018
Do charter schools strengthen students' educational experience? What are their social costs? This volume brings together a group of premier researchers to address questions about the purposes of charter schools and the role of public policy in shaping the educational agenda. Chapter authors explore topics seldom encountered in the current charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Educational Quality, School Segregation
Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin, Ed.; Smith, Stephen Samuel, Ed.; Nelson, Amy Hawn, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2015
"Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" provides a compelling analysis of the forces and choices that have shaped the trend toward the resegregation of public schools. By assembling a wide range of contributors--historians, sociologists, economists, and education scholars--the editors provide a comprehensive view of a community's experience…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Resegregation, Public Schools, Economic Development
Streitwieser, Bernhard, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2014
Continuous and rapid developments in global higher education today more than ever before present new questions, greater challenges, and vast new opportunities for institutions, policy makers, scholars and students alike. This book is a collection of studies and essays by many of the leading experts in international higher education who share their…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Comparative Education
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
Goodlad, John I., Ed.; Keating, Pamela, Ed. – 1990
This collection of 15 papers reconceptualizes the problem of failure in schools and describe the interlocking structural arrangements, curricular and instructional practices, and other school conditions that constitute barriers blocking all students' access to knowledge. A new agenda is offered for the national reform movement, an agenda that…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Agenda Setting
Wolfe, Leslie R., Ed. – 1991
This book of 13 papers resulted from a May, 1988, conference which examined the link between sex stereotyping in education and occupational inequities in the workplace. The book is organized in five parts. Papers in the first two parts assess the impact of sex and race stereotyping and discrimination on girls in school. Next the workplace issues,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Blacks, Career Development, Computer Literacy
Justiz, Manuel J., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book presents 19 papers on efforts to increase the participation of members of minority groups in higher education. The papers are: (1) "Demographic Trends and the Challenges to American Higher Education" (Manuel Justiz); (2) "Three Realities: Minority Life in the United States--The Struggle for Economic Equity (adapted by Don…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, American Indians
