Equity-Driven Educational Change and Innovation in Community and Technical Colleges
An invigorating take on how community and technical colleges can center equity in fostering institutional transformation. In Delivering Promise, award-winning scholar of higher education Xueli Wang tells a story of educational change and innovation that has and continues to occur at countless campuses of community and technical colleges. Wang ......
A thought-provoking examination of how public education systems can be strengthened through strategic relationships both within schools and with outside partners. In Democracy and Reform in Public Schools, Saul Rubinstein, Charles Heckscher, and John McCarthy apply their expertise in labor relations to public school reform. They envision a ......
A revised and expanded edition that promotes inquiry and teaching practices to help students gain the discipline-specific literacy skills they need to succeed in college, the workplace, and the society of tomorrow. In this second edition of Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction, Jacy Ippolito, Christina L. Dobbs, and Megin Charner-Laird ......
An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions-and a blueprint for process reform In Discredited, education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions. ......
Creating New Pathways for Access to Higher Education
Early Colleges as a Model for Schooling advocates for early college high schools as an effective means of reducing academic, cultural, and financial obstacles to postsecondary education.This perceptive work evaluates, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the impacts of early colleges-hybrids that blend elements of secondary and postsecondary ......
A New Conception of Schooling for the 21st Century
A visionary blueprint for educational reform that envisions school systems as opportunity engines, preparing young citizens for future workplace success, civic engagement, and fulfilling lives. Educating for Purposeful Life documents positive change within the Anaheim Union High School District, whose overarching mission is to prepare high school ......
Educating the Top 100 Percent assesses the decline of higher education funding and offers ambitious policy recommendations to restore the possibility of accessible, affordable education for all. Stephen G. Katsinas, Nathaniel J. Bray, and Martha J. Kanter probe the complex interplay of federal, state, and local policies and illustrate how ......
An incisive account on the underrepresentation of women, especially women of color, in positions of leadership in K-12 schools and how to correct this bias. Educational Lead(her)ship exposes the systemic obstacles that impede the professional advancement of women in K-12 education and offers readers the tools to recognize and combat these ......
How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America's Schools
A revolutionary proposal for a conceptual and organizational framework for US public education that benefits all citizens. In Educational Pluralism and American Democracy, education policy expert Ashley Rogers Berner envisions a K-12 education system that serves both the individual and the common good. Calling for education reform that will ......
