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The RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Debates in Education
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95Debating is out of fashion. No one raises the question of what has gone wrong when the entire political project of a society is seemingly reduced to 'education, education, education'. The aim of this lively and challenging book is to provide the stimulus for further thinking about key educational issues by exposing and explaining the assumptions behind... more...
We Must Take Charge!
Free Press 2008; US$ 24.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Charter Schools
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 110.00This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation. Powers carefully and thoroughly examines how features of schools' policy contexts shape the ways that charter school reform unfolds at schools, providing a nuanced portrait of the schools participating... more...
The Market Approach to Education
Princeton University Press 2001; US$ 32.95Milwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. The results of this experiment, however, have been overshadowed by the explosion of emotional debate it provoked nationwide.... more...
International Perspectives on Education
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 140.00International Perspectives on Education draws on the knowledge and experience of a distinguished team of international educationists, including Howard Gardner and Kristján Kristjánsson. Each chapter can be accessed as a resource on a specific topic, but the chapters are also grouped into three sections to provide an invaluable source of thinking... more...
Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 90.00Education is the platform for our success or failure, but is our system still fit for purpose? Will our children be equipped to face the challenges the future holds: the rapidly changing employment patterns and the global environmental, economic and social crises ahead of us? Or will our children grow up to resent their school years and blame them... more...
A School in Trouble
R&L Education 2010; US$ 13.99This book seeks answers to why some Central Falls High School students had school success while over half of their classmates failed to graduate. Much can be learned from how these students survived in a chronically low-achieving school located in the poorest community in the state. more...
Rituals and Student Identity in Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 30.00A contemporary look at both the rituals fostered in our education system that reproduce inequalities between students and how we can change these techniques to promote equity in and outside the classroom. more...
The Textbook as Discourse
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 53.95The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book is about the social, political and cultural content of elementary and secondary textbooks in American... more...
The Struggle for the History of Education
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 38.95The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been regarded as being merely peripheral rather than central to them. Over the years the history of... more...









