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Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, this work offers an alternative vision of education reform. It gives a portrayal of day-to-day teaching and learning in six educational projects that span both classroom and community-based settings.

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Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, Pockets of Hope offers an alternative vision of education reform. It provides an intimate portrayal of day-to-day teaching and learning in six educational projects that span both classroom and community-base

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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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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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Assesses the moves to decentralize educational administration. The text contains overviews by individual authors, and dialogues between different academic contenders. It provides a survey of educational policies and planning, and an analysis of the changes in England and Wales.

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A description of practical and inexpensive ways of individualizing staff development by capitalizing on adults' individual learning styles.

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A handbook for everyone involved in Jewish education about how to confront such issues as classroom discipline, improving the quality of Jewish Studies, and current controversies in Jewish education.

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Two events make the history of Norfolk in the 1950s remarkable: the voracity of its attack upon urban blight, and the ferocity of its resistance to school desegregation. The author shows how Southern cities used their powers of redevelopment, city planning, and school administration to resist and delay school desegregation.

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Boyer, Thomas Kean, and John Menge, examine the issues surrounding educational choice in public school systems and the voucher system for private schools.

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Boyer, Thomas Kean, and John Menge, examine the issues surrounding educational choice in public school systems and the voucher system for private schools.

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Believing that the primary purpose of professional education is to prepare practitioners, this book considers variables that affect professional practice. It emphasises the key role experiential education has in the transfer of learning to practice in medicine, law, social work and management.

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An examination of the education system in England as compared with neighbouring countries, such as France. This text shows what pupils in England and France are doing in the classroom and what standards they achieve. The voices of the pupils themselves articulate numerous perceptions.

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This timely and important book by a former Commissioner of Education for both New Jersey and Rhode Island, presents a radically different point of view on the role of government in public education.

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Puerto Rico's colonial history under the United States has shaped the character of development and education in that territory.

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Deals with the process of publishing for tenure including writing journal articles and scholarly monographs, strategies for creating a publication record, and the ethics of writing.

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Deals with the process of publishing for tenure including writing journal articles and scholarly monographs, strategies for creating a publication record, and the ethics of writing.

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What is wrong with education Why do educational reforms always miss their target How can we create a better education system And what can we learn from other countries Reclaiming Education tackles the challenges facing education that really matter - the ones that academics often ignore, parents demand solution to and politicians.

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Provides an overview of policy developments, professional and political issues and research findings in relation to school reform. The book enables the reader to experience what it is like to be involved in the field and is written in an accessible style and supported by thought provoking questions and useful exercises.