Education Policy Books

New and Published Books – Page 5

41. History of Multicultural Education

    Teachers and Teacher Education

    Edited by Carl A. Grant, Thandeka K. Chapman

    This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S. The volumes reflect the tenets of multicultural education, its history, its present, and individuals whose work has contributed significantly to...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
42. The Impact of Reform Instruction on Student Mathematics Achievement

    An Example of a Summative Evaluation of a Standards-Based Curriculum

    By Thomas A. Romberg, Mary C. Shafer

    Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

    Summarizing data derived from a four-year combined longitudinal/ cross-sectional comparative study of the implementation of one standards-based middle school curriculum program, Mathematics in Context, this book demonstrates the challenges of conducting comparative longitudinal research in the...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
43. The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education

    Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights

    Edited by Dave Hill

    Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

    Advancing a powerful critique of neoliberalized education in many of the rich countries of the world (USA, Canada, Finland, Greece, Israel, Japan, England and Wales, and others), the chapters in this book, written by an international array of acclaimed and emerging radical educators and policy...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
44. Contesting Neoliberal Education

    Public Resistance and Collective Advance

    Edited by Dave Hill

    Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

    Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
45. Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences

    Edited by Dave Hill, Ravi Kumar

    Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

    In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. &...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
46. The Developing World and State Education

    Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives

    Edited by Dave Hill, Ellen Rosskam

    Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

    Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more. This edited collection argues...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
47. The Changing Face of Special Educational Needs

    Impact and implications for SENCOs and their schools

    By Alison Ekins

    ‘Up- to-date and reflective of new government policy, this book will be an essential resource for all Senior Leaders and SENCOs.’ – Lynne Cook, Senior Lecturer in Education, Oxford Brookes University The Changing Face of Special Educational Needs shows teachers, SENCOs and students in teacher...

    Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
48. Mathematics Teachers at Work

    Connecting Curriculum Materials and Classroom Instruction

    Edited by Janine T. Remillard, Beth A. Herbel-Eisenmann, Gwendolyn M. Lloyd

    Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

    This book compiles and synthesizes existing research on teachers’ use of mathematics curriculum materials and the impact of curriculum materials on teaching and teachers, with a particular emphasis on – but not restricted to – those materials developed in the 1990s in response to the NCTM’s...

    Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
49. Approaches to Assessment that Enhance Learning in Higher Education

    Edited by Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Rebecca Rochon

    This book addresses the need to diversify mainstream forms of assessment currently used in Higher Education in order to re-establish the focus on the learning process. Making assessment central to student learning is about returning to what current research emphasises: the primary beneficiary of...

    Published August 10th 2011 by Routledge
50. Changing Schools

    Alternative Ways to Make a World of Difference

    Edited by Terry Wrigley, Pat Thomson, Robert Lingard

    Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on forteen case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented...

    Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge