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 record the level of NAFTA's impression on better schooling. via case stories, the authors study better schooling coverage in Canada, Mexico, and the us utilizing a standard theoretical framework that identifies fiscal globalization, foreign exchange liberalization, and post-industrialization as universal structural elements exerting an important impact on larger 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 price and effectiveness in AmericaOs public education approach, and offers a method to deal with it. It argues whatever that many schooling execs and coverage makers have come to think yet not often point out: That this countryOs approach of K-12 education isn't sustainable and is changing into a poorer price every year that is going through.

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

On the way to opposite the purported drawback in U. S. public faculties, the government, states, districts have mandated rules that want standardized techniques to instructing and overview. as a result, lecturers were hoping on teacher-centered educational techniques that don't think about the wishes, stories, and pursuits in their scholars; this is often relatively suggested with English freshmen (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 sphere of instructor schooling throughout 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.