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This title provides a satirical explanation to key words in education, which is both funny and thought provoking. Inspired by Ambrose Bierce's 'The Devil's Dictionary', it is a suitable book for the teacher in your life.

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Created for educators, students, and administrators involved in distance education, this bibliography describes some 300 books in the field, with the author's evaluative comments on the usefulness and audience of each title.

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Makes a link between two key policy drivers in education: personalized learning and distributed leadership. This work puts forward the idea that an effective means of implementing personalizing learning is to adopt distributed approaches to school leadership.

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It is commonly agreed that engaging parents with their child's learning is positive with wide reaching benefits. This book articulates why parental engagement is of value and how it can be achieved with positive results. It offers a resource for teachers about the benefits of parental engagement along with methods foster and develop good practice.

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Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. Tracing the historical development of religion within public schools and considering every major Supreme Court case, this book looks at the role that religion ought to play in public schools.

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and how these factors may affect the political and economic future of nations, regions, and the international community as a whole.

In his two-year study, Duke surveyed 3,000 students enrolled in 40 outstanding secondary schools that are likely to produce leaders in their respective countries in the twenty-first century.

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This examination of the interrelationship of educational and social developments in Germany from 1810 to 1997, concentrates on the post-war German scene, analyzing the post-unification system. It argues that the German educational system has become inadequate and seems to have reached an impasse.

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This examination of the interrelationship of educational and social developments in Germany from 1810 to 1997, concentrates on the post-war German scene, analyzing the post-unification system. It argues that the German educational system has become inadequate and seems to have reached an impasse.

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The authors of this study describe the implementation of a major primary school reform in five countries (Benin, Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, and Uganda).

The authors of this volume describe the efforts made in the last decade of the 20th century to reform African education, the goal of which was to achieve education for all.

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Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic public life.

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Cultural differences are not asserted through the specificity of dominant notions of race, gender, and class, but through a commitment to expanding dialogue and exchange across cultural lines as part of a wider attempt to deepen and develop democratic public life.

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Identifies the place that education has been assigned in the national development programmes of a varied selection of nations - large and small, capitalist and socialist, industrialized and agrarian, Eastern and Western, Northern and Southern.

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Presents a commentary on democracy in education, and the macro- and micro-political discourses which permit and prohibit this. This book explores key themes such as the struggle for democracy in schools and society, and the relationships between the processes of schooling and the preparation of the workforce in advanced capitalist societies.

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This work describes the increased importance and centralization of government involvement in education. It argues that government's education policies tend to be pulled in contradictory ways - on the one hand, very directive initiatives, on the other hand and openess to market forces.

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The first work of its kind to present a comprehensive survey of landmark court decisions on educational adequacy and equity claims and their impact on public school reform.

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In examining the implications of a philosophy of democratic leadership, the author takes his inquiry into practical areas, including the empowerment of teachers, the sharing of leadership among teachers and administrators, the preparation of educational leaders for a postmodern era, and the development of leadership qualities in children.