Download or read book Raising Standards Or Raising Barriers written by Gary Orfield and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. What forces have pushed high-stakes testing to the forefront of educational policy? Are such tests the best way to gauge educational attainment? This book examines the economic and educational assumptions underlying the call for high-stakes tests.
Download or read book Raising Standards Or Raising Barriers written by Gary Orfield and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more US states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. This volume, commissioned by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, examines the economic and educational assumptions underlying the call for these high-stake tests.
Download or read book Achieving High Educational Standards for All written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-05-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on a conference held at the request of the U.S. Department of Education, it addresses three questions: What progress has been made in advancing the education of minority and disadvantaged students since the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision nearly 50 years ago? What does research say about the reasons of successes and failures? What are some of the strategies and practices that hold the promise of producing continued improvements? The volume draws on the conclusions of a number of important recent NRC reports, including How People Learn, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, Eager to Learn, and From Neurons to Neighborhoods, among others. It includes an overview of the conference presentations and discussions, the perspectives of the two co-moderators, and a set of background papers on more detailed issues.
Download or read book A Question of Standards written by Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaking Barriers to Learning in Primary Schools written by Pat Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking Barriers to Learning in Primary Schools takes an expert and informative look at the integrated children’s services agenda in practice in today’s primary schools. Examining the ways in which an increasing number of different professionals help to improve children’s life chances, the author examines the roles of those employed directly by the schools themselves, for instance Learning Mentors, HLTAs and Teaching Assistants, and those employed by health/social and other agencies, such as school nurses, Educational social workers, study support workers, school attendance workers and Educational Psychologists. Through an exploration of how each individual helps break down barriers to children’s learning, this book: examines the growth and development of the children’s workforce provides a broad and integrated view of the wider school network explores the roles of individuals within the school workforce makes links to Every Child Matters and Extended Schools initiatives provides evidences of breaking down barriers, through interviews and studies with those working at the heart of integrated schools presents an analysis of recent statistics relating to children’s lives gives practical advice for good practice throughout. An essential text for all those working in education and in training to become part of this wider school network, this book takes into account the findings of the recent Primary Reviews, government data and original research to fully explain how to build, maintain and successfully work with today’s primary children. It is an excellent text for Foundation Degree students as well as those studying Education Studies and those training to be teachers.
Download or read book Raising Standards Following Success written by Scott Eidelman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncivil Rights written by Jonna Perrillo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first time in Jonna Perrillo’s Uncivil Rights, which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present.While movements for teachers’ rights and civil rights were not always in conflict, Perrillo uncovers the ways they have become so, brought about both by teachers who have come to see civil rights efforts as detracting from or competing with their own goals and by civil rights activists whose aims have de-professionalized the role of the educator. Focusing in particular on unionized teachers, Perrillo finds a new vantage point from which to examine the relationship between school and community, showing how in this struggle, educators, activists, and especially our students have lost out.
Download or read book Education Reform in Florida written by Kathryn M. Borman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and analyzes nation-leading school reforms in Florida.
Download or read book Raising Academic Standards and Vocational Concentrators written by John H. Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George W Bush written by Bryan Hilliard and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the first two years of the Bush presidency.
Download or read book Teacher s Raising Standards written by Ann Borthwick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raising Standards in Literacy written by Greg Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising Standards in Literacy represents the best current thinking and research about literacy. The book is the outcome of a high-profile series of seminars on raising standards in literacy, and includes contributions from an impressive group of international researchers and policymakers. By offering a rich and unique mix of contemporary perspectives on literacy education, this book provides an invaluable source of study and insight into the latest research and developments in the teaching of literacy. It includes sections on: * how research into literacy teaching can inform new approaches found in England, the USA and Australia * the ways in which literacy education is developing in England, the USA and Australia * the issues involved in assessing progress in literacy and the validity of research claims made about standards of attainment. The book celebrates the apparent success of current literacy initiatives at the same time as raising questions about the feasibility and relevance of such initiatives to the literacy co-ordinators and consultants and for all those undertaking further study or research in literacy education.
Download or read book Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade written by Keith Eugene Maskus and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the increasingly contentious debates over national regulations of safety and health in the international trade system
Download or read book Effecting Change for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners 2nd Edition ebook written by and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help teachers understand and close the provision gap for culturally and linguistically diverse learners, effecting greater opportunities for academic success. Written by Dr. Almitra Berry, this completely revised second edition introduces a new five-step framework that focuses on academic achievement and equity for all students. This professional resource guides you through a data-driven approach to determine whether your curriculum and instruction are meeting the needs of culturally diverse students.Educators will learn how to evaluate the effectiveness of curriculum, identify and implement instructional practices that are proven effective, monitor progress, and provide intensive small group instruction to help learners succeed. This timely book provides a collection of practical resources such as planning templates, data analysis forms, and reflective questions for each step of the process.
Download or read book Globalization Transformation and Cultures in Early Childhood Education and Care written by Stefan Faas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides a critical discussion of globalization and transformation, considering the cultural contexts of early childhood education systems as discourses as well as concrete phenomena and ‘lived experience.’ The book focuses on theoretical explorations and critical discourses at the level of education policy (macro), the level of institutions (meso), and the level of social interactions (micro). The chapters offer a wide range of interpretative, contextualized perspectives on early childhood education as a cultural construct.
Download or read book Kill the Messenger written by Richard Phelps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to public demand, federal legislation now requires testing of most students in the United States in reading and mathematics in grades three through eight. Many educators, parents, and policymakers who have paid little attention to testing policy issues in the past need to have better information on the topic than has generally been available. Kill the Messenger, now in paperback, fills this gap.This is perhaps the most thorough and authoritative work in defense of educational testing ever written. Phelps points out that much research conducted by education insiders on the topic is based on ideological preference or profound self-interest. It is not surprising that they arrive at emphatically anti-testing conclusions. Much, if not most, of this hostile research is passed on to the public by journalists as if it were neutral, objective, and independent. Kill the Messenger explains and refutes many of the common criticisms of testing; describes testing opponents' strategies, through case studies of Texas and the SAT; illustrates the profound media bias against testing; acknowledges testing's limitations, and suggests how it can be improved; and finally, outlines the consequences of losing the ""war on standardized testing.
Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development written by Christopher Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The contributions are authoritative and of high quality. This is an important resource." -The Teacher Trainer A seminal, 'state-of-the-art' critical review of teacher and school development which touches upon and discusses issues at both policy and practice levels.
