educational change

"With latest data and research, scholars study what lessons can be drawn from earlier efforts to help NCLB achieve its goals. Authors show that standards-based reform has had some positive effects and some of the critics' greatest fears have not been realized. Recommendations offered for implementation of impending reauthorized NCLB"--Provided by publisher.

Presents an overview of how school cultures function, and discusses four "types" of educators--believers, fundamentalists, tweeners, and survivors--and describes how to maintain a balanced dynamic between them to improve the school's culture and increase the learning potential for students.

Profiles education activists who are fighting to improve educational systems all over the world. Also teaches young readers how they themselves can make a difference.

The author explores the stagging costs of receiving a higher education degree, along with the debt many graduates face.

"George Couros encourages teachers and administrators to empower their learners to wonder, to explore--and to become forward-thinking leaders."--Provided by publisher.

Describes a education reform strategy that uses an entrepreneurial approach, asking that school systems be judged based on performance and productivity and compete over cost and quality, design personnel policies to benefit deserving teachers, and schools receive funding for new ventures and in support of creative problem solving.