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 larger schooling. via case reviews, the authors examine greater schooling coverage in Canada, Mexico, and america utilizing a typical theoretical framework that identifies financial globalization, overseas alternate liberalization, and post-industrialization as universal structural components exerting an important impression 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 fee and effectiveness in AmericaOs public education process, and offers a method to deal with 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 sustainable and is turning into a poorer worth every year that is going through.

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

With a view to opposite the purported quandary in U. S. public faculties, the government, states, districts have mandated guidelines that prefer standardized ways to instructing and evaluate. accordingly, academics were counting on teacher-centered tutorial ways that don't think about the desires, studies, and pursuits in their scholars; this is often relatively 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 throughout the accomplishments and contributions of recognized African American instructor educators—Lisa Delpit, Carl furnish, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Geneva homosexual, Cherry McGee Banks, William Tate, and Joyce King.