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21st Century Skills
Wiley 2009; US$ 19.95The new building blocks for learning in a complex world This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic... more...
Assessment Reform in Education
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education. A new perspective of assessment sees assessment as a means to enhance learning. This book examines the tensions, challenges and outcomes (intended and unintended)... more...
Can I Be in Your Class?
R&L Education 2011; US$ 16.95Can I Be In Your Class? offers secondary teachers tips and techniques to invigorate instruction and create an atmosphere conducive to active learning and extraordinary teaching. Each chapter opens with an illustrative anecdote and highlights a different educational area. more...
Research Perspectives on Education for the Future
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2003; US$ 68.00To be added more...
Achieving Success for Kids
R&L Education 2011; US$ 20.99Achieving Success for Kids is a clarion call to action that explains why we need to save America's children and return our nation and our schools to the core values, beliefs, and principles upon which our nation was founded. In this book, Tim L. Adsit presents a bold, visionary blueprint for change and success in achieving and exceeding international... more...
OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Australia 2011
OECD Publishing 2011; US$ 42.00This book provides, for Australia, an independent analysis of major issues facing its educational evaluation and assessment framework, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches. It shows how student assessment, teacher appraisal, school evaluation and system evaluation can bring about real gains in performance across Australia's... more...
Schools in the Landscape
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 41.50This richly researched and impressively argued work is a history of public schooling in Alabama in the half century following the Civil War. It engages with depth and sophistication Alabama’s social and cultural life in the period that can be characterized by the three “R”s: Reconstruction, redemption, and racism. Alabama was... more...
Preserving the Public in Public Schools
R&L Education 2011; US$ 23.99What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are political and ideological institutions in which... more...
We're Losing Our Minds
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 26.00America is being held back by the quality and quantity of learning in college. Many graduates cannot think critically, write effectively, solve problems, understand complex issues, or meet employers' expectations. The only solution - making learning the highest priority in college - demands fundamental change throughout higher education. more...
Avenues to Adulthood
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 37.00Professor Ueda's book discusses the reasons for the modernisation of the high school at the turn of the twentieth century. more...









