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 greater schooling. via case reviews, the authors learn greater schooling coverage in Canada, Mexico, and the us utilizing a typical theoretical framework that identifies fiscal globalization, foreign exchange liberalization, and post-industrialization as universal structural components exerting an important impression 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 rate and effectiveness in AmericaOs public education procedure, and gives a technique to handle it. It argues anything that many schooling pros and coverage makers have come to think yet hardly point out: That this countryOs approach of K-12 education isn't 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)

Which will opposite the purported predicament in U. S. public colleges, the government, states, districts have mandated rules that prefer standardized ways to instructing and overview. thus, academics were hoping on teacher-centered educational techniques that don't think about the wishes, studies, and pursuits in their scholars; this is often fairly stated with English novices (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 during the accomplishments and contributions of famous African American instructor educators—Lisa Delpit, Carl supply, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Geneva homosexual, Cherry McGee Banks, William Tate, and Joyce King.