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Web 2.0, the read/write web creates new opportunities for students to share their learning with a larger, real world community via the Internet.

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This volume discusses teacher training, pay and incentives, equity and diversity among the student population, and the use of indicators to assess educational progress and to inform decision making. Chapters in each section emphasize policies that schools should adopt to address the respective issues.

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This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally chart the methodological and theoretical parameters of such a project. The final section on experiences will extend the reflections in the methods section with concrete case studies.

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This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally chart the methodological and theoretical parameters of such a project. The opening section on "theory" surveys the conceptual antecedents of qualitative policy studies,

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Drawing extensively from critical education theory, feminist perspective and the writings of community college insiders as well as from her three years of classroom research. Professor Herideen develops the concept of Critical Mainstreaming. This model is designed to maximize both critical thinking and career success for nontraditional students.

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Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education.

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Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education.

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Armitage taught for one year in a British grammar school from 1971 to 1972 when the school amalgamated with a secondary modern school to form a comprehensive school.

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Chapters in this volume discuss the impact of statewide political transformation on teacher education programs.

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Chapters in this volume discuss the impact of statewide political transformation on teacher education programs.

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The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.

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The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.

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Many commentators feared that the Education Reform Act of 1988 sounded the death knell for teacher professionalism. This text explores the issue by setting the debates in their historical context and by drawing on detailed research findings.

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Politics, language and culture are three of the most powerful forces affecting education today. This text looks at their effects through the eyes of teachers, administrators and "insiders/outsiders" who are actually living reform at the school level in four widely different urban US school systems.

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During the 1980s, widespread dissatisfaction with America's schools gave rise to a powerful movement for educational change, and the nation's political institutions responded with aggressive reforms. Chubb and Moe argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem.

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Polygons Galore! is a mathematics unit for high-ability learners in grades 3-5 focusing on 2-D and 3-D components of geometry by exploring polygons and polyhedra and their properties.