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California's K-12 Public Schools
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95This report describes California?s K?12 public schools-specifically, their student population, the resources they are provided (finances, teachers, facilities), and their outcomes. It describes both student academic achievement and outcomes that schools may influence and that are inadequately captured in test scores. more...
Beyond Nostalgia
Australian Council for Educational Research 2000; US$ 34.95Enormous change to Australian education over the past decade has created a maelstrom of debate among politicians, teachers and academics about the direction of education. Beyond nostalgia: reshaping australian education distils this ongoing debate into a concise account of developments in education, and provides a positive framework for finding... more...
Schooling America
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 13.99Presented by America's educational historian, this book provides an history of the American education. It uses an array of sources, including student diaries, popular magazines, PTA minutes, and more, to show us what Americans have demanded from the schools. more...
The Art of Teaching
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 18.99Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching , writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft. more...
Inside Mrs. B.'s Classroom
McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 24.00A respected journalist turned-teacher reveals what's really happening in America's schools. In 1999, Chicago Sun-Times veteran Leslie Baldacci left her prestigious, twenty-five year career to teach at a public school in one of Chicago's roughest South Side neighborhoods. As she later commented, ''I thought I knew rough. I thought I had answers. I didn't... more...
Higher Education
Springer 2007; US$ 54.99Part of a series which offers a compendium of integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. This book focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. more...
Transformational Change in Higher Education
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00Discusses the management of transformational change in higher education as a key element of success. This volume explores transformational change in a range of institutions from small teaching and community colleges to large comprehensive research universities. more...
OECD Reviews of Tertiary Education New Zealand
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 33.00In many OECD countries, tertiary education systems have experienced rapid growth over the last decade. With tertiary education increasingly seen as a fundamental pillar for economic growth, these systems must now address the pressures of a globalising economy and labour market. Within governance frameworks that encourage institutions, individually... more...
Real College
Penguin Group US 2004; US$ 14.00Few people have as much experience helping students cope with college life as Douglas Stone, a long-time Harvard residential adviser and coauthor of Difficult Conversations , and Elizabeth Tippett, recent Harvard graduate and founding director of the university?s peer mediation program. In Real College , they join forces to help students deal with... more...
American Education
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 64.95American Education: A History, 4e is a comprehensive, highly-regarded history of American education from pre-colonial times to the present. Chronologically organized, it provides an objective overview of each major period in the development of American education, setting the discussion against the broader backdrop of national and world events. The... more...









