Educational Change & School Reform

Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate thei..

Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate thei..

Alternative education caters and cares for students whose regular schools have failed and excluded them. This collection addresses the important question - what might regular schools and teachers learn about socially just pedagogies from alternative education practices? It was first published as a s..

Progressive Education, derived mainly from Anglo-American culture, has been the primary frame of reference for student-centered classroom change in developing countries for over 50 years. Yet in many developing countries, strong evidence shows that progressivism has not replaced teacher-centered for..

The ‘science of performance’ model of school change this book proposes, to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children, is based on a specific process of research and development in local contexts and on assumptions about teachers, teaching, and research...

This book brings together articles on education and social mobility. It makes an important contribution to our theoretical and empirical understanding of the changing relationship between origins, education and destinations. This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journa..

This book brings together sixteen cutting-edge articles on education and social mobility. It also includes an introductory essay offering a guide to the main issues and controversies addressed by authors from several countries. The book makes an important contribution to our theoretical and empirica..

Initiatives such as Race to the Top introduce new statistics and accountability systems to gauge what constitutes "good" teaching, both from an administrative standpoint and the perspective of teacher training programs. Drawing on the philosophical strategies of Ludwig Wittgenstein to break down the..

Drawing upon two decades of extensive research and practice, and using a variety of illuminating case studies, the authors offer a stimulating and thorough examination of mentoring...

This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is trying to meet that challenge while placing the developments in a larger international context...

This Handbook makes available the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 school choice...

This Handbook makes available the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 school choice...