Small Schools

Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society

By Michael Klonsky, Susan Klonsky

When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of...

Published February 27th 2008 by Routledge.

International Perspectives

Edited by Ciaran Sugrue

Educational Change has been high on the international agenda for the last twenty-five years. This timely book provides a systematic overview and critique of contemporary...

Published February 14th 2008 by Routledge.

Rightist Multiculturalism

Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform

By Kristen L. Buras

For nearly two decades, E. D. Hirsch’s book Cultural Literacy has provoked debate over whose knowledge should be taught in schools, embodying the culture wars...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.

By Despina A. Stylianou, Maria L. Blanton, Eric J. Knuth

Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

35 years of the Cambridge Journal of Education

Edited by Nigel Norris

Even though the curriculum can be tightly specified and controlled by strong accountability mechanisms, it is teachers who decisively shape the educational experiences of children...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

Revolutionizing Education

Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion

Edited by Julio Cammarota, Michelle Fine

Many scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address both the political challenges and...

Published January 25th 2008 by Routledge.

By Keith A. Nitta

Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who...

Published December 25th 2007 by Routledge.

A Contemporary Project and Practice in a Multi-Cultural Society

Edited by Helen Johnson

Profound changes in society, government policy and the political landscape, as well as cataclysmic events such as 9/11, have greatly altered perceptions of faith schools...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

An Evaluation of Two Terms

Edited by Geoffrey Walford

This book presents a valuable and authoritative evaluation of the real impact Labour’s two terms have had on the British education system.

On the 1st May 1997...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

The Contribution of Oxford

Edited by Harry Judge

This book examines an important aspect of the relationship between higher education and the public - especially secondary - system of schooling in Britain.

Higher...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.