Search results for ""Author Diane Ravitch""
Basic Books The Death and Life of the Great American School System How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
£17.09
Penguin Putnam Inc Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
£13.99
Random House USA Inc Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
£16.66
Johns Hopkins University Press The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools
Named one of the Ten Best Books about New York City by the New York Times
£35.00
Yale University Press New Schools for a New Century: The Redesign of Urban Education
As we cross the threshold of a new century, which approaches are likely to improve public education? In this book, distinguished scholars discuss recent innovations—charter schools, contracting arrangements, and choice—designed to liberate educators from burdensome bureaucratic controls and improve the level of opportunity for all children.Focusing on the problems in cities, where far too many children have been denied access to quality institutions, the authors examine the lessons to be learned from Catholic schools, site-based management, private entrepreneurs, and specific developments in three cities—New York, Milwaukee, and Chicago. The authors, though realistic about the political and institutional obstacles that stand in the way of meaningful change, foresee the demise of the "one size fits all" approach to schooling. They envision a system of schools that is dynamic, diverse, performance based, and accountable; one that is supportive of professionals, responsive to creativity, intolerant of failure, and committed to high educational standards for all children.Contributors: Louann BierleinAnthony BrykJohn ChubbChester FinnPaul HillValerie LeePaul PetersonDiane RavitchJoseph P. ViterittiPriscilla Wohlstetter
£30.59
Johns Hopkins University Press City Schools: Lessons from New York
City Schools brings together a distinguished group of researchers and educators for an in-depth look at the nation's largest school system. Topics covered include the changing demographics of city schools, the impending teacher shortage, reading instruction, special education, bilingual education, school governance, charter schools, choice, school finance reform, and the role of teacher unions. The book also provides fresh and fascinating perspectives on Catholic schools, Jewish day schools, and historically black independent schools. Diane Ravitch, Joseph P. Viteritti, and their coauthors explore pedagogical, institutional, and policy issues in an urban school system whose challenges are those of American urban education writ large. The authors conclude that we know a lot more about how to provide effective educational services for a diverse population of urban school children than performance data would suggest. Contributors: Dale Ballou, University of Massachusetts, Amherst * Stephan F. Brumberg, Brooklyn College * Mary Beth Celio, University of Washington * Gail Foster, Toussaint Institute * Michael Heise, Case Western University * Clara Hemphill, Public Education Association * Paul T. Hill, University of Washington * William G. Howell, Harvard University * Pearl Rock Kane, Columbia University * Frank J. Macchiarola, Saint Francis College * Melissa Marschall, University of South Carolina * Thomas Nechyba, Duke University * Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University * Christine Roch, Georgia State University * Christine H. Rossell, Boston University * Marvin Schick, Avi Chai Foundation * Mark Schneider, SUNY, Stony Brook * Lee Stuart, South Bronx Churches * Paul Teske, SUNY, Stony Brook * Emanuel Tobier, New York University * Joanna P. Williams, Columbia University
£39.36
Johns Hopkins University Press Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform
Many Americans view today's problems in education as an unprecedented crisis brought on by the rise of contemporary social problems. In Learning from the Past a group of distinguished educational historians and scholars of public policy reminds us that many current difficulties-as well as recent reform efforts-have important historical antecedents. What can we learn, they ask, from nineteenth-century efforts to promote early childhood education, or debates in the 1920s about universal secondary education, or the curriculum reforms of the 1950s? Reflecting a variety of intellectual and disciplinary orientations, the contributors to this volume examine major changes in educational development and reform, consider how such changes have been implemented in the past, and warn against , exaggerating their benefits. They address questions of governance, equity and multiculturalism, curriculum standards, school choice, and a variety of other issues. Policy makers and other school reformers, they conclude, would do well to investigate the past in order to appreciate the implications of the present reform initiatives.
£27.50
