Independent schools, private education books

323 books were found.

Managing International Schools

Managing International Schools

Author: Sonia Blandford ,  Marian Shaw
ISBN: 9780415228855
Format: Paperback
$123.00

This practice-based management book for international schools, provides support and development for middle and senior...  Read More >>

Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society

Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution,...

Author: Joseph Viteritti
ISBN: 9780815790471
Format: Paperback
$45.99

America is now in the second generation of debate on school choice. The first was prompted by the provocative voucher...  Read More >>

Impact Aid and the Education of Military Children

Impact Aid and the Education of Military Children

Author: Richard Buddin ,  Brian P. Gill
ISBN: 9780833029645
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS: AN EXECUTIVES GUIDE

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS: AN EXECUTIVES GUIDE

Author: Niki Chesworth
ISBN: 9780749433352
Format: Book
$35.95

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Permissible Advantage?: The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling

Permissible Advantage?: The Moral Consequences of Elite...

Author: Alan Peshkin
ISBN: 9780805824674
Format: Paperback
$42.00

This study of an elite college preparatory high school examines what moral choices look like when they are made...  Read More >>

Permissible Advantage?: The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling

Permissible Advantage?: The Moral Consequences of Elite...

Author: Alan Peshkin
ISBN: 9780805824667
Format: Hardback
$104.00

This study of an elite college preparatory high school examines what moral choices look like when they are made...  Read More >>

Assessing the Progress of New American Schools: A Status Report

Assessing the Progress of New American Schools: A Status...

Author: Mark Berends
ISBN: 9780833027610
Format: Paperback
$19.80

New American Schools (NAS), a private nonprofit corporation, began in 1991 to fund the development of designs aimed...  Read More >>

Social Transformation and Private Education in China

Social Transformation and Private Education in China...

Author: Jing Lin
ISBN: 9780275955908
Format: Hardback
$330.00

A contextualized study of the development, characteristics, problems, issues and future prospects of private schools...  Read More >>

Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880-1925

Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's...

Author: Jonathan Zimmerman
ISBN: 9780700609451
Format: Hardback
$79.07

His book offers insight into an overlooked chapter in our history and raises questions about lay influence on school...  Read More >>

How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education

How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The...

Author: David F. Labaree
ISBN: 9780300078671
Format: Paperback
$51.95

This book examines the competing ideological traditions that have fought for dominance in American public schools...  Read More >>

Common Schools, Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference

Common Schools, Uncommon Identities: National Unity...

Author: Walter Feinberg
ISBN: 9780300074222
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Takes on the debate and suggests ways to promote both cultural and national identities.  Read More >>

Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School

Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School

Author: Ernest Kolowrat ,  Stephen Birmingham
ISBN: 9781561310586
Format: Hardback
$92.40

This engaging chronicle asks and answers the question, 'How has Connecticut's Hotchkiss School managed to accomodate...  Read More >>

King Alfred School and the Progressive Movement 1898-1998

King Alfred School and the Progressive Movement 1898-1998...

Author: Ron Brooks
ISBN: 9780708314531
Format: Hardback
$51.72

A study of the progressive school in North London and its educational theories.  Read More >>

Constructing Female Identities: Meaning Making in an Upper Middle Class Youth Culture

Constructing Female Identities: Meaning Making in an...

Author: Amira Proweller
ISBN: 9780791437728
Format: Paperback
$57.95

An insightful, and often surprising, look at adolescent girls' socialization in a historically elite, private, single-sex...  Read More >>

The School within Us: The Creation of an Innovative Public School

The School within Us: The Creation of an Innovative...

Author: James Nehring
ISBN: 9780791435892
Format: Hardback
$138.60

The inspirational story of a group of teachers, parents, and students who face and overcome many challenges in their...  Read More >>

Lessons from Privilege: The American Prep School Tradition

Lessons from Privilege: The American Prep School Tradition...

Author: Arthur G. Powell
ISBN: 9780674525535
Format: Paperback
$68.95

Around 10,000 American tax dollars will put a child through many public schools for a year. About 10,000 private...  Read More >>

The School within Us: The Creation of an Innovative Public School

The School within Us: The Creation of an Innovative...

Author: James Nehring
ISBN: 9780791435908
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The inspirational story of a group of teachers, parents, and students who face and overcome many challenges in their...  Read More >>

Manly and Muscular Diversions: Public Schools and the Nineteenth-century Sporting Revival

Manly and Muscular Diversions: Public Schools and the...

Author: Tony Money
ISBN: 9780715627938
Format: Hardback
$49.03

Tony Money shows how the roots of the export of team games lie both in the stable political and economic circumstances...  Read More >>

Private Education in Modern China

Private Education in Modern China

Author: Peng Deng
ISBN: 9780275956394
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Drawing on an abundance of primary sources as well as on the author's extensive personal experience in the Chinese...  Read More >>

Fee-paying Schools and Educational Change in Britain: Between the State and the Marketplace

Fee-paying Schools and Educational Change in Britain:...

Author: Ted Tapper
ISBN: 9780713040302
Format: Paperback
$81.00

Examining the history of access to private education this work sheds light on the interaction of state, society...  Read More >>

Private And Public School Partnerships: Sharing Lessons About Decentralization

Private And Public School Partnerships: Sharing Lessons...

Author: Jean Madsen
ISBN: 9780750705370
Format: Paperback
$98.00

The presentation of a practical model showing how three schools dealt with privatization. This study asks whether...  Read More >>

Private And Public School Partnerships: Sharing Lessons About Decentralization

Private And Public School Partnerships: Sharing Lessons...

Author: Jean Madsen
ISBN: 9780750705363
Format: Hardback
$280.00

The presentation of a practical model showing how three schools dealt with privatization. This study asks whether...  Read More >>

Curriculum in Conflict: Social Visions, Educational Agendas and Progressive School Reform

Curriculum in Conflict: Social Visions, Educational...

Author: Landon E. Beyer ,  Daniel P. Liston
ISBN: 9780807735282
Format: Paperback
$35.20

The authors of this text analyse the disparate views put forward in debates concerning both public school and university...  Read More >>

Curriculum in Conflict: Social Visions, Educational Agendas and Progressive School Reform

Curriculum in Conflict: Social Visions, Educational...

Author: Landon E. Beyer ,  Daniel P. Liston
ISBN: 9780807735299
Format: Hardback
$57.95

The authors of this text analyse the disparate views put forward in debates concerning both public school and university...  Read More >>

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