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Author : Mark Priestley
Release : 2013-08-22
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 645/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reinventing the Curriculum by : Mark Priestley
Download or read book Reinventing the Curriculum written by Mark Priestley. This book was released on 2013-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of modern curricular policy trends, drawing upon Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence, and featuring inputs from acknowledged experts in the field.
Author : David Osborne
Release : 2017-09-05
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reinventing America's Schools by : David Osborne
Download or read book Reinventing America's Schools written by David Osborne. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.
Author : Joseph P. McDonald
Release : 2009-08-08
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Going to Scale with New School Designs by : Joseph P. McDonald
Download or read book Going to Scale with New School Designs written by Joseph P. McDonald. This book was released on 2009-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first invented, Americans have been trying to re-design the American high school. One of the latest approaches funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is to find inventive high school designs that work well in one location and replicate them in other locations. The authors of this book followed a design team from Big Picture Learning as it worked to do exactly this, recording the challenges it faced, and the strategies it employed. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big Pictures work is laced with stories about scaling up by other school design teams, and in other enterprises beyond high school. Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a new dimension of school reform, and also an interesting read for anyone interested in school change.
Author : Lorna Earl
Release : 2013-02-01
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 796/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Schooling for Change by : Lorna Earl
Download or read book Schooling for Change written by Lorna Earl. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on change and reform in secondary and elementary schools, this book explores the possibilities for better schooling for early adolescents.
Author : Mark Priestley
Release : 2015-10-22
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 876/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Teacher Agency by : Mark Priestley
Download or read book Teacher Agency written by Mark Priestley. This book was released on 2015-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark Priestley, Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson explore empirical findings from the 'Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change' project, funded by the UK-based Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Drawing together this research with the authors' international experiences and perspectives, Teacher Agency addresses theoretical and practical issues of international significance. The authors illustrate how teacher agency should be understood not only in terms of individual capacity of teachers, but also in respect of the cultures and structures of schooling.
