Education

The Flat World and Education (Paperback)

Today in the United States only 1 in 10 low-income kindergarteners goes on to graduate from college. At a time when education matters more than ever, the U.S. high school graduation rate has dropped from first in the world to the bottom half of rankings for comparable nations. While such sobering facts inform her new book, the author focuses on the successes of effective school systems in the U.S. and abroad in order to develop a clear and coherent set of policies that can be used to create high-quality and equitable schools.Drawing on her broad experience, Darling-Hammond examines the roots of our modern education system and shows how the skills required for our 21st-century global economy cannot be learned in traditional education systems, which have been in place since the early 1900s. She identifies an "opportunity gap" that has evolved as new kinds of learning have become necessary--a gap where low-income students, students of color, and English language learners often do not have the same access as others to qualified teachers, high-quality curriculum, and well-resourced classrooms.After setting the stage on current conditions in the United States, Darling-Hammond offers a coherent approach for effective reform that focuses on creating successful systems, inducting and supporting quality teachers, designing effective schools, establishing strong professional practice, and providing equitable and sufficient resources. The Flat World and Education lays out what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Going Back to College

The grown-up's guide to higher education. Adults make up 41% of students on campus today, but the truth is many enter college feeling lost, uncomfortable, and too old in the traditional class structure. This book provides information that is unique to the adult learning experience, including selecting the right school and courses, online enrollment and advisement, school for the full-time parent, juggling classes and a job, and more. --Author is a higher education leader who received her doctorate as a single parent --Covers every unique challenge for the adult college student

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paying for College

A higher education without falling deep in debt. With the lack of financial aid, grants, and scholarships available today due to the economic climate, parents and students need serious help in finding ways to pay for college. Savings plans and resources have disappeared. Loans seem impossible to pay off. That's where The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Paying for College steps in. It helps develop an action plan for people to budget and pay for college right now, and if necessary, strategize repayment after graduation. It also explains how to: *Find ways to lower the cost of tuition and room and board *Find honest-to-goodness free money *Discover more affordable options like college credit for military service, peer-to-peer lending, or attending nontraditional colleges and universities

The Flat World and Education (Paperback)

Today in the United States only 1 in 10 low-income kindergarteners goes on to graduate from college. At a time when education matters more than ever, the U.S. high school graduation rate has dropped from first in the world to the bottom half of rankings for comparable nations. While such sobering facts inform her new book, the author focuses on the successes of effective school systems in the U.S. and abroad in order to develop a clear and coherent set of policies that can be used to create high-quality and equitable schools.Drawing on her broad experience, Darling-Hammond examines the roots of our modern education system and shows how the skills required for our 21st-century global economy cannot be learned in traditional education systems, which have been in place since the early 1900s. She identifies an "opportunity gap" that has evolved as new kinds of learning have become necessary--a gap where low-income students, students of color, and English language learners often do not have the same access as others to qualified teachers, high-quality curriculum, and well-resourced classrooms.After setting the stage on current conditions in the United States, Darling-Hammond offers a coherent approach for effective reform that focuses on creating successful systems, inducting and supporting quality teachers, designing effective schools, establishing strong professional practice, and providing equitable and sufficient resources. The Flat World and Education lays out what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn.

Race and Class Matters at an Elite College

In Race and Class Matters at an Elite College , Elizabeth Aries provides a rare glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. Based on an intensive study Aries conducted with 58 students at Amherst College during the 2005-2006 academic year, this book offers a uniquely personal look at the day-to-day thoughts and feelings of students as they experience racial and economic diversity firsthand, some for the first time. Through online questionnaires and face-to-face interviews, Aries followed four groups of students throughout their first year of college: affluent whites, affluent blacks, less financially advantaged whites from families with more limited education, and less financially advantaged blacks from the same background. Drawing heavily on the voices of these freshmen, Aries chronicles what they learned from racial and class diversity—and what colleges might do to help their students learn more.

Education in Hope (Paperback)

This book explores the relationship between critical pedagogies and an ethic of care. The critical pedagogies of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and scholars/activists in the field of feminist pedagogy are examined and shown to reflect this ethic of care. In clarifying this relationship. Education in Hope uncovers and challenges the dominant ethical models underlying contemporary educational paradigms.

"Tony Monchinski`s new book is wonderfully readable, inspiringly humane, eminently sensible, and educationally practical. He teaches us what `an ethic of care` means and how to use it. He poses the urgent need to install `caring` in a society driven by Wall Street`s money market and by standardized testing in schools. Human beings and human needs have disappeared in the equation that now rules school and society. This is the right book at the right time, a book of knowledge and remedies just in time. It shows us how the theme of `care` unifies and underlies great theories in education. He also proposes practical reforms to make `caring` the strong foundation for teaching and learning. The scope of his critique is breathtaking. while the scale of his solutions is sensible. This is a wise book for troubled times." ---Ira Shor, Professor, City University Graduate Center, New York

"Although most progressive thinkers have always assumed that a good education must be connected to an universal ethical code, no one has yet spelled out how such a connection is to be primordial in the educational process---that is until Tony Monchinski undertook such a task in this book. By first analyzing the pedagogical works of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and such feminists as Carol Gilligan who first posited the link between education and the ethic of care, Monchinski is able to show how such a link is especially needed today. That link, Monchinski brilliantly insists, is fundamental to all critical theories of pedagogy." ---John Gerassi, Professor of Political Science, Queens College

The Flat World and Education (Paperback)

Today in the United States only 1 in 10 low-income kindergarteners goes on to graduate from college. At a time when education matters more than ever, the U.S. high school graduation rate has dropped from first in the world to the bottom half of rankings for comparable nations. While such sobering facts inform her new book, the author focuses on the successes of effective school systems in the U.S. and abroad in order to develop a clear and coherent set of policies that can be used to create high-quality and equitable schools.Drawing on her broad experience, Darling-Hammond examines the roots of our modern education system and shows how the skills required for our 21st-century global economy cannot be learned in traditional education systems, which have been in place since the early 1900s. She identifies an "opportunity gap" that has evolved as new kinds of learning have become necessary--a gap where low-income students, students of color, and English language learners often do not have the same access as others to qualified teachers, high-quality curriculum, and well-resourced classrooms.After setting the stage on current conditions in the United States, Darling-Hammond offers a coherent approach for effective reform that focuses on creating successful systems, inducting and supporting quality teachers, designing effective schools, establishing strong professional practice, and providing equitable and sufficient resources. The Flat World and Education lays out what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn.

Leading and Managing Education

This accessible book provides a critical review of educational leadership and management from an international perspective. It addresses the expectation that practitioners and students of educational management and administration will have an international perspective on their roles, responsibilities and tasks. Increasingly, teachers as education leaders are expected to keep pace with developments in other school and college systems, and to engage with international networks to debate and exchange practical experience. The book covers a series of key themes in educational leadership, drawing on a wide range of examples, including:. - Learners and learning. - People and communities in education. - Managing strategy and resources. - Learning futures and the changing challenges for educational leaders. In this context the authors:. - Describe the international landscape of leadership and management. - Provide an overview of practice in different national settings. - Identify global patterns and trends. - Challenge some of the accepted norms in leadership and management. - Build managers' confidence as part of a global community of professional educators. - Support informed choice about policy and practice from government to school. This is a key text for students of educational leadership and management as well as for managers and administrators in schools, colleges and other educational settings.

Education in Hope (Paperback)

This book explores the relationship between critical pedagogies and an ethic of care. The critical pedagogies of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and scholars/activists in the field of feminist pedagogy are examined and shown to reflect this ethic of care. In clarifying this relationship. Education in Hope uncovers and challenges the dominant ethical models underlying contemporary educational paradigms.

"Tony Monchinski`s new book is wonderfully readable, inspiringly humane, eminently sensible, and educationally practical. He teaches us what `an ethic of care` means and how to use it. He poses the urgent need to install `caring` in a society driven by Wall Street`s money market and by standardized testing in schools. Human beings and human needs have disappeared in the equation that now rules school and society. This is the right book at the right time, a book of knowledge and remedies just in time. It shows us how the theme of `care` unifies and underlies great theories in education. He also proposes practical reforms to make `caring` the strong foundation for teaching and learning. The scope of his critique is breathtaking. while the scale of his solutions is sensible. This is a wise book for troubled times." ---Ira Shor, Professor, City University Graduate Center, New York

"Although most progressive thinkers have always assumed that a good education must be connected to an universal ethical code, no one has yet spelled out how such a connection is to be primordial in the educational process---that is until Tony Monchinski undertook such a task in this book. By first analyzing the pedagogical works of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and such feminists as Carol Gilligan who first posited the link between education and the ethic of care, Monchinski is able to show how such a link is especially needed today. That link, Monchinski brilliantly insists, is fundamental to all critical theories of pedagogy." ---John Gerassi, Professor of Political Science, Queens College

Education in Hope (Paperback)

This book explores the relationship between critical pedagogies and an ethic of care. The critical pedagogies of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and scholars/activists in the field of feminist pedagogy are examined and shown to reflect this ethic of care. In clarifying this relationship. Education in Hope uncovers and challenges the dominant ethical models underlying contemporary educational paradigms.

"Tony Monchinski`s new book is wonderfully readable, inspiringly humane, eminently sensible, and educationally practical. He teaches us what `an ethic of care` means and how to use it. He poses the urgent need to install `caring` in a society driven by Wall Street`s money market and by standardized testing in schools. Human beings and human needs have disappeared in the equation that now rules school and society. This is the right book at the right time, a book of knowledge and remedies just in time. It shows us how the theme of `care` unifies and underlies great theories in education. He also proposes practical reforms to make `caring` the strong foundation for teaching and learning. The scope of his critique is breathtaking. while the scale of his solutions is sensible. This is a wise book for troubled times." ---Ira Shor, Professor, City University Graduate Center, New York

"Although most progressive thinkers have always assumed that a good education must be connected to an universal ethical code, no one has yet spelled out how such a connection is to be primordial in the educational process---that is until Tony Monchinski undertook such a task in this book. By first analyzing the pedagogical works of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and such feminists as Carol Gilligan who first posited the link between education and the ethic of care, Monchinski is able to show how such a link is especially needed today. That link, Monchinski brilliantly insists, is fundamental to all critical theories of pedagogy." ---John Gerassi, Professor of Political Science, Queens College