As the book emphasizes, such change is imperative, for in better serving its students, higher education will better serve society.
... an important policy role that nobody was going to play, if they weren't going to play it.” Adding to the potential role confusion is the fact that “nobody understands the role of the board,” she said. “The community expects them to ...
An educator must determine whether a media tool is designed simply to grab and maintain a preschooler's attention—a ... to talk with each other while using a drawing app, which does not offer rewards or indicate what success looks like ...
This straightforward and inspiring book takes readers into schools where educators believe--and prove--that all children, even those considered "hard-to-teach," can learn to high standards. Their teachers and principals refuse to...
The teachers featured in this book will inspire and empower readers.” —José Vilson, teacher, blogger, and author of This Is Not a Test Doris A. Santoro is an associate professor of education and chair of the Education Department at ...
This book moves past mere rhetoric about personalization to explore real classrooms trying to reinvent themselves.
This volume makes the powerful case that it is no longer possible to think of one sector in the absence of the other, given the economic, demographic, and technological forces that are pushing the educational system toward convergence.
In early iterations of strategic inquiry in New York City the phases were likely to be rolled out in a linear fashion: first teams move students, then systems, then colleagues. This made sense given that teams were not yet commonplace ...
In Resourceful Leadership, Elizabeth A. City examines decisions about the use of three key resources--time, money, and staff--and how tradeoffs among them are integrated into school leaders' improvement strategies. She...
"This book provides a great variety of useful ideas and tools for analyzing student achievement data.
In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach to education reform that leverages “networked improvement communities” to address high school dropout rates and other core concerns.
In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach to education reform that leverages “networked improvement communities” to address high school dropout rates and other core concerns.
"This book presents a series of case studies of schools and other educational organizations that are successfully putting continuous improvement techniques into practice"-- In Improvement in Action, Anthony S. Bryk illustrates how educators ...
By including voices from inside classrooms along with analyses from scholarly researchers, this volume provides college and university teachers, administrators, students, and scholars with a critical instrument for improving higher ...
Reinventing Financial Aid is a volume in the Educational Innovations series. "This is an important book that holds great promise in shaping student aid policy for the twenty-first century.
This book shines a light on the threats posed by the school-to-prison pipeline, the experiences of those who have been its victims, and strategies for disrupting and deconstructing that pipeline.” — Russ Skiba, director, The Equity ...
The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.S. higher education.
The book addresses common challenges and highlights missteps as well as successes.
Public Montessori in the Era of School Choice Mira Debs. (2009): 2209–254. 10. ... 4 (2012): 521–50; Kirsten Cole, “9 'Power Parents' and the Gentrification of the PTA,” in Women Education Scholars and Their Children's Schooling, ed.
This sixth volume in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight series presents a collection of seminal articles on the four key areas outlined by the Obama administration as criteria for states’ entry in the Race to the Top competition and ...