Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America: The Emergence of a New Market under NAFTA? (Higher Education Dynamics)

This examine is the 1st attempt to record the level of NAFTA's impression on better schooling. via case reviews, the authors examine larger schooling coverage in Canada, Mexico, and the us utilizing a typical theoretical framework that identifies financial globalization, overseas alternate liberalization, and post-industrialization as universal structural elements exerting an important impression on larger schooling within the 3 international locations.

UNSUSTAINABLE: A Strategy for Making Public Schooling More Productive, Effective, and Affordable (Innovations in Education)

UNSUSTAINABLE frames the matter of expense and effectiveness in AmericaOs public education procedure, and offers a technique to deal with it. It argues anything that many schooling execs and coverage makers have come to think yet infrequently point out: That this countryOs procedure of K-12 education isn't really sustainable and is changing into a poorer worth every year that is going by means of.

Teachers of English Learners Negotiating Authoritarian Policies (SpringerBriefs in Education)

As a way to opposite the purported problem in U. S. public faculties, the government, states, districts have mandated guidelines that desire standardized techniques to instructing and evaluation. thus, academics were counting on teacher-centered educational methods that don't think about the desires, studies, and pursuits in their scholars; this can be rather suggested with English inexperienced persons (ELs).

Education Research in the Public Interest: Social Justice, Action, and Policy (Multicultural Education)

Acclaimed African American student and instructor educator Gloria Ladson-Billings examines the sector of instructor schooling during the accomplishments and contributions of famous African American instructor educators—Lisa Delpit, Carl furnish, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Geneva homosexual, Cherry McGee Banks, William Tate, and Joyce King.