Education category: 70663 books
by Matthew Floding, Barbara J. Blodgett, Charlene Jin Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Field education is an opportunity for students to develop ministry skills, practice ministerial reflection, discern their call, experience professional collegiality, and undergo personal transformation. Field education offers them a place to practice ministry and a space to reflect on it, to integrate...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Unlock the more straightforward side of I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala...
Beyond the Education Wars
Evidence That Collaboration Builds Effective Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"Beyond the Education Wars is filled with wisdom. Its thoughtful review and analysis of both research and specific case studies is first rate. It has been said that many of the most debated issues are the ones with the least effects. Anrig's book calls attention to what matters. I hope now that at the...
by Dr. Wendolyn Bouie
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The End of Public Schools? Are America’s public schools really broken? Are our public schools putting us in danger of being overtaken by foreign countries? Is it true that Johnny can’t read? Ever since Sputnik soared overhead in 1957, policy makers have feared an “education gap”...
10 Lessons from New York City Schools
What Really Works to Improve Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this provocative and practical book, author Eric Nadelstern provides a proven-effective blueprint for narrowing the achievement gap in our schools, especially for children of color who have been historically underserved. The author, one of the chief architects of the New York City reforms under...
Common Core Meets Education Reform
What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can the Common Core complement and not conflict with school improvement efforts already at work across the United States? How can it be seamlessly integrated into accountability systems, teacher preparation and development, charter schools, and educational technology? This timely volume brings...
WhatOs Ahead in Education?
An Analysis of the Policies of the Obama Administration
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
What's Ahead in Education?: An Analysis of the Policies of the Obama Administration illuminates the educational views of President Barack Obama. This is done by studying his life to date, his writings and speeches, as well as his initiatives thus far, in the field of education. His unique educational...
A Guide for Leaders in Higher Education
Core Concepts, Competencies, and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
At a time when higher education faces the unprecedented challenges of declining revenues and increased scrutiny, questions about access, cost, and the value of degrees, and the imperative to educate a more diverse student body, there is an urgent need for leadership that is conversant with, and able...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Toward Assessing Business Ethics Education, edited by Diane L. Swanson and Dann G. Fisher of Kansas State University, is a sequel to their book Advancing Business Ethics Education in the Ethics in Practice IAP book series. The focus on assessment in this second book is a timely response to the urgent...
by Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
What's Wrong with School?
Many experts over the years say everything!
This book is my personal research into schools. I'm not an academic nor am I an expert on education. I taught preschool and kindergarten, I co-founded a Waldorf School, I homeschooled my children and then unschooled...
by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim. Archibald and Feldman, leading analysts, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their training future generations. And they demonstrate...
Innovation in Hospitality Education
Anticipating the Educational Needs of a Changing Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book analyses the development of hospitality education from vocational to higher education, and discusses the positioning of hotel schools. It addresses questions such as: Should hospitality management become part of generic business education? Are the technical training programmes that have...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy? Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This book discusses essential approaches and methods in connection with engineering education for sustainable development. Prepared as a follow-up to the 2015 Engineering Education in Sustainable Development (EESD) Conference held in British Columbia, Canada, it offers the engineering community key...