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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to modernize, Tea Partiers who call him an autocrat, affluent...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The purpose of this research was to explore the question: How does peace education enter early childhood? The aim was to bridge theory and practice and embrace new perspectives that could make early childhood education, first and foremost, a place for ethical practices. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight early childhood professionals from the Czech Republic and the United States. The analysis supported the use of six criteria for...
Author
Series
Library of modern Middle East studies volume 82
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
474) Education and development: tradition and innovation.Introductory volume,A human rights analysis
Author
Publisher
Cassell
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and how to find a sense of purpose. Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Compares the performance of American schools with that of other countries against the background of an increasingly globalizing world, introducing new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity, and shows mixed results for U.S. students and recommends areas where American schools and education should be improved"--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating...
