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 larger schooling. via case reviews, the authors learn better schooling coverage in Canada, Mexico, and america utilizing a typical theoretical framework that identifies financial globalization, foreign 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 fee and effectiveness in AmericaOs public education process, and offers a method to deal with it. It argues whatever that many schooling execs and coverage makers have come to think yet infrequently 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)

So that it will opposite the purported concern in U. S. public colleges, the government, states, districts have mandated regulations that desire standardized methods to instructing and evaluate. accordingly, academics were counting on teacher-centered educational techniques that don't think about the wishes, reviews, and pursuits in their scholars; this is often fairly reported 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 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.