Trends and Debates in American Education
Author: Otto Federico von Feigenblatt
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788419690067
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Trends and Debates in American Education
Author: Otto Federico von Feigenblatt
Publisher: Ediciones Octaedro
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 8419690058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume covers a range of topics related to American education from a Hispanic point of view. Legislative intervention in the teaching of social studies in Florida, critical race theory in education, strengths and weaknesses of the decentralized American education system, and the higher education of Hispanics in the United States, are some of the topics explored. The volume concludes with a critical interpretation of the shortage of teachers in the State of Florida at a time of great socioeconomic and political polarization in the United States of America, as a representative case of the central debates in education of the second decade of the twenty-first century.
The Great School Debate
Author: Beatrice Gross
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780671541361
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American Educational History
Author: William H. Jeynes
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2007-01-18
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1452235740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American Educational History: School, Society, and the Common Good is an up-to-date, contemporary examination of historical trends that have helped shape schools and education in the United States. Author William H. Jeynes places a strong emphasis on recent history, most notably post-World War II issues such as the role of technology, the standards movement, affirmative action, bilingual education, undocumented immigrants, school choice, and much more!
School Figures
Author: Hanna Skandera
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 081792826X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →School Figures presents statistics, along with historical trends and cross-sectional comparisons, to provide a clear, factual picture of today's K&–12 education landscape, including information on school demographics, cost and finance, testing and achievement, public school reform, and other key areas.
Emerging Issues and Trends in Education
Author: Theodore S. Ransaw
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 162895311X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As classrooms across the globe become increasingly more diverse, it is imperative that educators understand how to meet the needs of students with varying demographic backgrounds. Emerging Issues and Trends in Education presents case studies from academics who have all at one point been teachers in K–12 classrooms, addressing topics such as STEM as well as global issues related to race, gender education, education policy, and parental engagement. The contributors take an international approach, including research about Nigerian, Chinese, Native American, and Mexican American classrooms. With a focus on multidisciplinary perspectives, Emerging Issues and Trends in Education is reflective of the need to embrace different ways of looking at problems to improve education for all students.
Debating the Future of American Education
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0815713452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is the outlook for educational reform in the United States? One of the most striking proposals has been to establish a system of national standards, which has raised many complex questions: Is it possible for the United States, with its history of extreme decentralization, to establish and enforce national standards for what students should know? Who will create these standards? What would be the role of the federal, state, and local governments? While the idea of national standards has been widely supported, many respected educators doubt their value from fear that such standards will institutionalize the lowest common denominator. Others cite the poor performance of U.S. students on international tests and insist that the U.S. will suffer because of this poor performance. The debate becomes even more intense when the question of assessment is posed. Is it possible to develop a national examination system tied to new standards? Should such tests be used to influence entry to colleges and jobs? Would the motivation of students to learn be increased if they knew that their performance would be reviewed by colleges and employers? Is it fair to set standards for students without setting standards for schools? To address these and other questions, this book, the result of a Brookings conference, brings together representatives of various viewpoints on the utility and equity of increasing the use of tests for students, teachers, and schools. The contributors are Chester Finn, Jr., the Edison Project; Daniel Koretz, RAND; Andrew Porter, Wisconsin Center for Education Research; Lauren Resnick, University of Pittsburgh; Roy Romer, Governor of Colorado; Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers; Theodore R. Sizer, Brown University; Marshall C. Smith, U.S. Department of Education; and Donald M. Stewart, The College Board. Brookings Dialogues on Public Policy
The Future of Physical Education
Author: Anthony Laker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1134440626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anthony Laker leads an outstanding international team of educational theorists in critically examining the theoretical underpinnings of physical education, and in challenging the rhetoric, the practices and the pedagogies that prevail in our schools. There has been a great deal of discussion surrounding the value of this subject in schools, particularly around the form that physical education should take. The domination of physical education teaching by the scientific / technical discourses is problemized and it is suggested that this domination limits the potential of the subject to be culturally and contextually relevant to students in schools. This edited collection aims to extend the worldwide academic debate of the future of physical education in schools by challenging the prevailing 'authorised curricula'. Each contributor address a key contemporary issue in physical education bringing different perspectives as they relate to the evolving issues of the subject. They ask important questions about where we intend to take the knowledge we have gained from a legacy of positive research. These chapters tackle critical issues in modernist physical education and suggest how a re-evaluation could contribute to the continuing advancement of the subject for more diverse educational benefits. Laker draws this body of work together in a conclusion that describes a theoretically and pedagogically innovative physical education curriculum for the 21st century. This book is a summary of the current state of research in physical education. It invites debate and discussions in the field and re-conceptualises physical education theory into inclusive practices located in the postmodern school world.
The Rise and Fall of American Public Schools
Author: Robert J. Franciosi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-04-30
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0313057176
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality. The work focuses on the importance of local control in American public education and how it has been steadily eroded. Franciosi advocates school choice as a way of restoring greater control by parents over their children's schools. This work is distinct among calls of reform in that it takes a skeptical attitude towards the centralized school reform movement that has culminated in the No Child Left Behind Act. It discusses important topics that have been the subject of research including the effect of teachers unions, Tiebout competition and local control, and school finance reform. Franciosi follows the many trajectories taken by America's public schools over the past century. It shows that the United States has been a world education leader in both access for all children and resources spent. Despite this there are still some worrisome trends. While school spending has steadily increased, student achievement has fluctuated, and remains below that of students in other developed nations. Initiatives to close the gap in achievement has fluctuated and remains below that of students in other developed nations. Initiatives to close the gap in achievement and resources among students of various socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds have been only partially successful. Past efforts to reform public education have led to increasingly centralized control over public schools. This piece will be important to those who are active on both sides of the school reform debate. It will also be useful to students who are researching education policy, the economics of education, or public policy.
Pathophysiology, Homeostasis and Nursing
Author: Roger Watson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780415275491
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