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Direct linkImison, Tamsyn, Ed.; Heilbronn, Ruth, Ed.; Williams, Liz, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2013
Schools in England are radically changing their organization and governance, casting aside the founding principle of the 1944 Education Act that education is a public service and abandoning the ideal of education as nurturing a sense of community. This book presents a portrait of a successful comprehensive school, between the years 1980 and 2000.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Corwin, Ronald G.; Schneider, E. Joseph – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
The federal government is devoting millions of dollars to charter and voucher programs that currently require parents to abandon regular public schools. The goal of the authors of The School Choice Hoax is to expose the misleading hyperbole that has been driving the school choice movement and to show how charter schools can become more effective…
Descriptors: Small Schools, School Based Management, Open Enrollment, Federal Government
Download full textPike, Robert M.; And Others – 1978
Three essays are collected in this study of access to higher education in other countries: "Part-Time Undergraduate Studies in Ontario," by Robert M. Pike; "Access to Higher Education in England and Wales," by Naomi E. S. McIntosh; and "Strategies for a Broader Enrollment in Swedish Higher Education," by Urban…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Roueche, John E.; Roueche, Suanne D. – 1993
Showcasing 12 community college programs recognized as successful in serving the needs of at-risk students, this book reviews the impact of limited resources and a growing high-risk student population on community colleges, examines successful programs and strategies, discusses faculty selection, and reviews program evaluation criteria and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities
McGrath, Dennis; Spear, Martin B. – 1991
In an effort to understand and unify competing voices, which on one hand defend and seek to preserve the open-access college and on the other hand point to concomitant tensions, dilemmas, and uncertainties and call for reform, this book examines the achievements of community colleges, as well as the lingering problems that undercut those…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, College Faculty, College Role
Scott, Peter – 1995
This book analyzes the transformation of British higher education from a closed, elite university system into an open, mass post-secondary education system. It sees the changes in British higher education as stemming from: (1) the rapid expansion in the number of students that created pressures for a shift to a mass, open post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Demand Occupations
