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Boston s schools in 2006 won the Eli Broad Prize for the Most Improved Urban School System in America. But from the 1930s into the 1970s the city schools succumbed to scandals including the sale of ……続きを見る

Improving education through policy learning is an important notion for countries in need of educational reform. However, identifying a successful set of practices and transferring them from one nati……続きを見る

Franz-Michael Konrad beschreibt anschaulich die Geschichte der Schule vom Alten Ägypten über antike Gymnasien und mittelalterliche Klosterschulen bis zur Gegenwart. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Ent……続きを見る

Cool Things to Do If a Bully's Bugging You: 50 Classroom Activities to Help Elementary Students aims to help students facing bullying and other problems while they're actually experiencing them. The……続きを見る

How can colleges and universities improve efficiency while preserving academic values? Winner of the Typographic Jacket of the Washington Publishers Higher education expert William F. Massy’s decade……続きを見る

The failure of continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly removing them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking alternatives,……続きを見る

When Critical Multiculturalism Meets Mathematics details the development and outcomes of a teacher professional development project that merged multiculturalism and mathematics. In six compact chapt……続きを見る

This book presents an evidence-based framework for understanding the literacy needs of adolescents. The premise is that educators and other critical stakeholders need to understand evidence-based pr……続きを見る

Recent policies and government initiatives in many Western countries have strengthened the expectation that young disabled people have the right to be involved in decisions affecting their futures. ……続きを見る

This volume explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and higher education reforms, setting it in a global context. It examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy……続きを見る

Es necesario buscar alternativas con el objetivo que los niños y niñas asimilen los aprendizajes necesarios y no se sientan excluidos. 続きを見る

La innovación y el cambio pasan por un profesorado formado en una doble perspectiva: la disciplinar y la pedagógico-didáctica. 続きを見る

Manual para el profesorado de enseñanza obligatoria (de 6 a 16 años). Explica los conceptos lingüísticos esenciales, sugiere recursos didácticos y, en definitiva, facilita la tarea cotidiana del pro……続きを見る

¿Qué es la pedagogía sistémica? Ejemplos prácticos y cotidianos, su perspectiva y soluciones para resolver problemas de relación, de aprendizaje y de conducta. 続きを見る

Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) is an effective intervention which builds positive relationships through filming and feedback sessions. By micro-analysing actions and communications in this way, cl……続きを見る

Extremely useful background reading for pre- and in service teachers especially, but not only, of pre-adults.' -The Teacher Trainer 'There are no muddled thoughts or fudging of issues here; Rigby de……続きを見る

People of all ages learn important life skills through playing games, and recognising this can be the key to enhancing their social, educational and personal development. Incorporating play into tea……続きを見る

Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function. Libraries and librarians have been sta……続きを見る

The Music History Classroom brings together essays written by recognized and experienced teachers to assist in the design, implementation, and revision of college-level music history courses. This i……続きを見る

How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities? Are young people sexually liberated, or is human sexuality increasingly controlled and manipulated by commercial forces? Thomas Jo……続きを見る

7 Ways to Transform the Lives of Wounded Students provides a wealth of strategies and ideas for teachers and principals who work with wounded studentsーthose who are beyond the point of "at-risk" an……続きを見る

Geography matters to elite schools ー to how they function and flourish, to how they locate themselves and their Others. Like their privileged clientele they use geography as a resource to elevate t……続きを見る

For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow ……続きを見る

This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization. The authors discuss the potential impact of mandated……続きを見る

How to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both……続きを見る

Degrees of Deception explains the development and widespread abuses of the for-profit higher education sector in America. To illustrate the scope and degree of wrongdoing in for-profit higher educat……続きを見る

Blogs, edublogs o quaderns de bitàcola; fa escassament quatre anys, uns quants professors pioners van començar a introduir-los en l'àmbit escolar. L'evolució d'aquest fenomen ha estat espectacular i……続きを見る

Examining the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in comparison to its counterparts in the USA and Australia, this book focuses on how it is being interpreted and acted upon in the context of hig……続きを見る

Students drop out of universities in large numbers, many graduate to jobs that do not require a degree and a large number learn little at university, whilst graduate salaries have shrunk over time a……続きを見る

What is the relationship today between museums, galleries and learning? The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It u……続きを見る