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 study larger schooling coverage in Canada, Mexico, and the united states utilizing a standard theoretical framework that identifies financial globalization, overseas exchange liberalization, and post-industrialization as universal structural elements exerting an important impact on better 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 method, and offers a method to handle it. It argues anything that many schooling execs and coverage makers have come to think yet infrequently point out: That this countryOs method of K-12 education isn't really sustainable and is changing into a poorer worth every year that is going by way of.

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

With a view to opposite the purported trouble in U. S. public faculties, the government, states, districts have mandated regulations that prefer standardized methods to educating and overview. to that end, academics were hoping on teacher-centered tutorial methods that don't think about the wishes, reviews, and pursuits in their scholars; this is often really stated with English rookies (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 sector of instructor schooling in the course of the accomplishments and contributions of recognized African American instructor educators—Lisa Delpit, Carl supply, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Geneva homosexual, Cherry McGee Banks, William Tate, and Joyce King.