Reforming Schools
Michael Gove on reforming schools and exams system (24Nov10)
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Charlie Rose with Chester Finn, Jeanne Allen, Sara Mosle & Linda Darling-Hammond; Elmore Leonard; Marv Albert (September 4, 1996) $24.95 Chester Finn, former assistant secretary of education for President Reagan, Jeanne Allen, president of the National Center for Education Reform, Sara Mosle, of The New York Times Magazine and Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond of the Columbia Teacher’s College, talk about whether or not America’s deteriorating public schools can be saved. After, best-selling crime-fiction authors Elmore Leonard, talks abou… |
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Teachers, Schools, and Society with Student CD $89.97 The most reader friendly text in its field, the ninth edition presents a comprehensive overview of education in America. It provides in-depth commentary on educational history, philosophy, and governance, while giving special attention to current critical topics such as the changing federal role in educational finance. Newly revised for this edition, Chapter 4 (Life in School and at Home) now incl… |
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results $8.98 The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing costs – not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets. In “Redefining Health Care”, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael E. Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg r… |
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School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance $26.62 Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn’t automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where their students are in their academic development. Low-performing schools, and the people who work in them, don’t k… |