Independent schools, private education books

323 books were found.

Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schools

Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and...

Author: Robert Kunzman
ISBN: 9780791466865
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Asks whether public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved....  Read More >>

Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schools

Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and...

Author: Robert Kunzman
ISBN: 9780791466858
Format: Hardback
$180.84

Asks whether public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved....  Read More >>

Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time: Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools

Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time: Operations and...

Author: Brian P. Gill ,  Laura S. Hamilton
ISBN: 9780833038241
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Reports an evaluation of Edison Schools, a for-profit manager of public schools. RAND evaluated Edison's strategies...  Read More >>

Private Education: Tradition and Diversity

Private Education: Tradition and Diversity

Author: Geoffrey Walford
ISBN: 9780826485991
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Private schools are central to the reproduction of social inequality. For example, whilst in the UK providing only...  Read More >>

Oundle - A School for All Seasons

Oundle - A School for All Seasons

Author: Stephen Forge ,  Julian Andrews
ISBN: 9781903942376
Format: Hardback
$184.80

An illustrated anniversary publication of Oundle, one of the UK's largest public schools. Photographs taken during...  Read More >>

Muscle and Manliness: The Rise of Sport in American Boarding Schools

Muscle and Manliness: The Rise of Sport in American...

Author: Axel Bundgaard
ISBN: 9780815630821
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Axel Bundgaard has produced a work exploring the introduction and nature of sport in the controlled environment...  Read More >>

Histories of the Nine Clarendon Schools

Histories of the Nine Clarendon Schools

Author: Chris Stray
ISBN: 9781843711094
Format: Hardback
$1328.95

In 1861 a Royal Commission was established to investigate the finance, management and curriculum of nine leading...  Read More >>

Nonclassroom-based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740

Nonclassroom-based Charter Schools in California and...

Author: Cassandra Guarino ,  Ron W. Zimmer
ISBN: 9780833037534
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Reports on ana evaluation of the legislativelu mandated process of evaluation of California's nonclassroom-based...  Read More >>

The Story of Moreton Hall

The Story of Moreton Hall

Author: Michael Charlesworth
ISBN: 9781904057352
Format: Paperback
$25.88

A historical insight into one of the country's leading girls boarding schools.  Read More >>

Public or Private Education?: Lessons from History

Public or Private Education?: Lessons from History

Author: Richard Aldrich
ISBN: 9780713040616
Format: Paperback
$98.00

This collection of essays, edited by the distinguished historian of education Richard Aldrich, examines past, present...  Read More >>

Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers

Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers

Author: Richard D. Kahlenberg
ISBN: 9780870784842
Format: Paperback
$42.11

In the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of public funding for private religious...  Read More >>

British Private Schools: Research on Policy and Practice

British Private Schools: Research on Policy and Practice...

Author: Geoffrey Walford
ISBN: 9780713040487
Format: Paperback
$90.00

This book brings together the best of recently conducted research on the various aspects of private schooling, through...  Read More >>

Bredon School - The First Forty Years

Bredon School - The First Forty Years

Author: Paul Herbert
ISBN: 9780954555306
Format: Paperback
$20.67

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS GUIDE 2003/2004

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS GUIDE 2003/2004

Author: Gabbitas Educational Consultants
ISBN: 9780749439637
Format: Book
$35.95

Compiled by Gabbitas Educational Consultants, this title provides guidance for parents considering private education...  Read More >>

Charter and Community Schools: A Director's Handbook

Charter and Community Schools: A Director's Handbook...

Author: William Callison
ISBN: 9780810846029
Format: Paperback
$94.95

Provides information about all of the dimensions a director needs to understand in order to operate a school.  Read More >>

Victoria College: A History Revealed

Victoria College: A History Revealed

Author: Sahar Hamouda ,  Colin Clement
ISBN: 9789774247569
Format: Hardback
$91.08

This volume is the history of a remarkable phenomenon - a British-style public school rooted in Egyptian soil, -...  Read More >>

The Colors of Excellence: Hiring and Keeping Teachers of Color in Independent Schools

The Colors of Excellence: Hiring and Keeping Teachers...

Author: Pearl Rock Kane ,  Alfonso J. Orsini
ISBN: 9780807742822
Format: Paperback
$30.00

This volume offers information on the state of diversity in independent schools. Featuring the findings of a five-year...  Read More >>

Where Charter School Policy Fails: The Problems of Accountability and Equity

Where Charter School Policy Fails: The Problems of Accountability...

Author: Amy Stuart Wells ,  Aaron M. Pallas
ISBN: 9780807742495
Format: Paperback
$34.00

This work is based on the authors' in-depth study of ten urban, suburban, and rural school districts and 17 diverse...  Read More >>

Where Charter School Policy Fails: The Problems of Accountability and Equity

Where Charter School Policy Fails: The Problems of Accountability...

Author: Amy Stuart Wells ,  Aaron M. Pallas
ISBN: 9780807742501
Format: Hardback
$126.72

This work is based on the authors' in-depth study of ten urban, suburban, and rural school districts and 17 diverse...  Read More >>

Public or Private Education?: Lessons from History

Public or Private Education?: Lessons from History

Author: Richard Aldrich
ISBN: 9780713002300
Format: Hardback
$280.00

The essays that make up this collection examine past, present and future relationships between the private and public...  Read More >>

Black Tom: Arnold of Rugby: The Myth and the Man

Black Tom: Arnold of Rugby: The Myth and the Man

Author: Terence Copley
ISBN: 9780826467058
Format: Paperback
$61.00

This biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of Arnold's influence as an educator,...  Read More >>

Black Tom - Arnold of Rugby: The Myth and the Man

Black Tom - Arnold of Rugby: The Myth and the Man

Author: Thomas Copley (Professor of Education, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780826457233
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of Arnold's influence as an educator,...  Read More >>

Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement

Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement...

Author: Joseph Murphy ,  Catherine Dunn Shiffman
ISBN: 9780807741986
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Provides a defintion of charter schools, an explanation of why charters enjoy bipartisan support, a look at how...  Read More >>

Manly and Muscular Diversions

Manly and Muscular Diversions

Author: Tony Money
ISBN: 9780715631522
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Modern sports are widely regarded as Britain's gift to the world. In this story of the evolution of our modern sports,...  Read More >>

Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity...

Author: Ann Arnett Ferguson
ISBN: 9780472088492
Format: Paperback
$63.23

How do schools identify African American males as bad boys?  Read More >>

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