Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education

Constructing Women's Status

By Elizabeth J. Allan

Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book describes policy...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38168-0 (Routledge)

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Strengths-Based School Counseling

Promoting Student Development and Achievement

By John P. Galassi, Patrick Akos

Despite calls for a more preventive and developmental mode of functioning, school counseling has tended to be driven by a reactive and sometimes crisis orientation....

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6249-2 (Routledge)

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Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School

A Project-Based Approach

By Joseph Krajcik, Charlene Czerniak

The need for a scientifically literate population that can apply scientific ideas to solve real world problems in the 21^st century has never been greater....

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6206-5 (Routledge)

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Education for Inclusive Citizenship

By Dina Jane Kiwan

This book examines the conceptions of citizenship and the extent to which these conceptions accommodate ethnic and religious diversity in today’s schools.

The author contributes...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42368-7 (Routledge)

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The Dynamics of Educational Effectiveness

A Contribution to Policy, Practice and Theory in Contemporary Schools

By Bert P.M. Creemers, Leonidas Kyriakides

This book brings together the current thinking and research of two major investigators in the field of educational effectiveness. After defining educational effectiveness, the authors...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39953-1 (Routledge)

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Gender Education & Equality in a Global Context

Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives

By Shailaja Fennell, Madeleine Arnot

The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015. But can such global agendas address national and local gender inequalities and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41944-4 (Routledge)

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Charter School Outcomes

Edited by Mark Berends, Matthew G. Springer, Herbert J. Walberg

Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6222-5 (Routledge)

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Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education

Signals and Shortcomings

By Mantz Yorke

A lot hangs on the summative grades that students are given. A good degree opens doors which otherwise might remain closed. Yet, as higher education...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39396-6 (Routledge)

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Educational Research and Policy-Making

Exploring the Border Country Between Research and Policy

Edited by Lesley Saunders

This book provides a fascinating insight into the sometimes troubled relationship between ‘research’ and ‘policy-making’ in education. It shows how each of these areas of...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41175-2 (Routledge)

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No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap

Sociological Perspectives on Federal Educational Policy

Edited by Alan R. Sadovnik, Jennifer A. O'Day, George W. Bohrnstedt, Kathryn M. Borman

This monumental collection presents the first-ever sociological analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act and its effects on children, teachers, parents, and schools. More...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95531-7 (Routledge)

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