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

This learn is the 1st attempt to rfile the level of NAFTA's influence on better schooling. via case stories, the authors research greater schooling coverage in Canada, Mexico, and the us utilizing a typical theoretical framework that identifies fiscal globalization, overseas alternate liberalization, and post-industrialization as universal structural components exerting an important effect on better schooling within the 3 nations.

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 approach, and gives a technique to handle it. It argues anything that many schooling execs and coverage makers have come to think yet hardly ever point out: That this countryOs process 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 drawback in U. S. public faculties, the government, states, districts have mandated guidelines that desire standardized ways to educating and evaluate. thus, lecturers were counting on teacher-centered educational methods that don't think about the wishes, stories, and pursuits in their scholars; this is often fairly stated with English freshmen (ELs).

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

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