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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...
Greatest Educators Ever
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 140.00A fascinating look at the greatest educators of all time including Rousseau, Newman, Montessori and Freire. The Greatest Educators Ever brings together the most influential and interesting educators of all time. With entries ranging from Plato to Jesus, and Froebel to Freire, This book provides a fascinating overview of the development of educational... more...
The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal
Wiley 2009; US$ 39.95A topical and provocative volume that invites consideration of the most fundamental issues concerning future educational provision: what is the purpose of our schools, and what should we do in them? Cutting-edge research by contributors who are leading figures internationally in philosophy and education, for whom these issues have been particular... more...
Education State Rankings 2008
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2008; US$ 120.75Does your state make the grade? This new edition of Education State Rankings compares the 50 states in hundreds of preK-12 education categories. See how your state stacks up in reading and math scores, teachers salaries, graduation rates, per pupil spending, special education, class size and so much more. In addition, learn which state received... more...
Managing Change or Living with Change?
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00The papers collected in this e-book make no claim as to how to do change management, but rather they seek to address weaknesses in the change management literature identified above by providing a broader and more complex analysis of the processes of change. The papers presented are deliberately diverse, drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe and... more...
The Almanac of American Education 2008
Bernan Press 2008; US$ 74.99The Almanac of American Education helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government and reliable private sources, the book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education... more...
A Power Shift in Public Education
R&L Education 2009; US$ 28.99This 'no holds barred' book about big ideas makes the case that billions of dollars and millions of man hours have been spent chasing the wrong solutions. Pandiscio makes a direct assault on what he believes to be the primary causes of the failed public school system in America. more...
Crisis on Campus
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 24.00A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future. In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor?chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College?expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely... more...









