Prepares teachers for their varied roles in education reform. Aim is to help readers develop and improve curriculum development skills and use these skills to implement education reform practices. Also looks at multicultural education and uses case studies to apply curriculum foundations and practices to some of the many problem situations faced by today's students.
This is not surprising, given the pattern of decreased public funding and increased student cost over this period.
Foundations of American Higher Education: An ASHE Reader
The articles and research reports provide an important picture of the development of community colleges, the missions that guide them, the challenges they face, the students they serve, and the faculty and leaders who serve them.
Alternatively, some researchers have relied on competing interest group theory (G. Becker, 1983, 1985) to explain how the size of groups such as senior citizens and corrections have a disproportionate influence on the behavior of ...
While the then Nationalist Party Government claimed that education would be separate but equal, the statistics clearly indicate that Africans did not have educational opportunities equal to those of Whites (Bunting, 1994, pp. 8-10).
Frey , William H. , Alan Berube , Audrey Singer , and Jill H. Wilson . Getting Current Recent Demographic Trends in Metropolitan America . Washington , DC : Metropolitan Policy Program , Brookings Institution , 2009 . htte ...
Higher Education Finance Research: Policy, Politics, and Practice fills that void. The book is structured in four parts.
ASHE: Finance in Higher Education
The Equity of Public Subsidies for Higher Education: Some Thoughts on the Literature. ... Denver, CO: Education Finance Center, Education Commission of the States. ... International Encyclopedia of Economics of Education (2nd ed.).
This book fills that need with expert insight reflecting current realities and a true understanding of the challenges community colleges face.