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How can we fix America's floundering public schools Conventional wisdom says that schools and teachers need a lot more money, that poor and immigrant children can't do as well as most American kids, that high-stakes tests just produce teaching to the test, and that vouchers d...

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This text provides a clear overview and assessment of the educational policy systems at work in the UK. Accessibly written and covering pre-school and Higher Education policy-making as well as Primary and Secondary, the author examines the evolution of education policy from the Education Act of '44 to the academies of today.

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Offers a comprehensive introduction to the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation which supports readers to engage in contemporary policy analysis. This title charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, moving from New Labour to the emerging position of the Coalition government.

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Education Restated proposes shifts in how we address three areas in education policy: accountability, teacher hiring, and parent choice. In each of these areas policy has been anchored around the wrong core values. By focusing on the right core values, state governments can cr...

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Education Restated proposes shifts in how we address three areas in education policy: accountability, teacher hiring, and parent choice. In each of these areas policy has been anchored around the wrong core values. By focusing on the right core values, state governments can cr...

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This volume seeks to provide a comprehensive, fair-minded treatment of Education Savings Accounts and will address the rationale for them, the challenges they pose, what it takes for them to work and the political and legal dynamics at play.

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This volume seeks to provide a comprehensive, fair-minded treatment of Education Savings Accounts and will address the rationale for them, the challenges they pose, what it takes for them to work and the political and legal dynamics at play.

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This book analyzes each major reform No Child Left Behind, Common Core State Standards, grading schools, evaluating teachers, failing students, vouchers, charters, online virtual charters and finds them seriously wanting. We conclude with reforms that work actually helping teachers, kids, parents and communities.

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This book takes on the issues of our failures from the dangers associated with a lack of classroom discipline to the failings of the people to recognize and defend their schools from an overstepping federal government. This book clarifies the answers to our education system's ...

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When will the 'education revolution' really begin Is the nation ready for the challenges of the global knowledge economy and the emerging centres of innovation around the world What are the key problems and where are the policy solutions This title addresses these questions.

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This book champions teacher care and concern for students as the driving force for change, exposing the causes and chronicling the effects of educational malfeasance.

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This book analyzes the successes and impediments of various educational policies in Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. The authors analyze how current and past discourses on gender, religion, culture, politics, and the economy affect formal education and communal transformation in mountainous regions.

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The first in-depth exploration of the post-revolutionary transition of the Tunisian educational system, providing insights crucial to studying transitions more widely.

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This unique book strives to bring difficult but much needed conversations about the current day equity issues in North America to the forefront through case studies

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Eliminating the Achievement Gap is designed to be the first book to base society's efforts to reduce the achievement gap on meta-analytic analysis. It proposes an interdisciplinary approach to this problem that is rare, refreshing, and insightful, including solutions generally overlooked.