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Education Policy and Practice: Bridging the Divide

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Education Policy and Practice aims to promote more effective school reform by illuminating important connections between education policy and teaching practice. The contributors to this collection focus on how to meet the needs of the teacher and the students they serve, providing insights that will be of great value to the key players in the field of education. The book places special emphasis on teaching in urban settings and on improving teacher-student interacti… More >>

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Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a new preface

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America’s colleges and universities are the best in the world. They are also the most expensive. Tuition has risen faster than the rate of inflation for the past thirty years. There is no indication that this trend will abate. Ronald G. Ehrenberg explores the causes of this tuition inflation, drawing on his many years as a teacher and researcher of the economics of higher education and as a senior administrator at Cornell University. Using incidents and example… More >>

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Making Learning Happen: A Guide for Post-Compulsory Education

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Making Learning Happen provides an accessible and practical discussion of teaching and learning for the post-compulsory sector of higher and further education. Much of the existing educational literature on `learning’ is written in language which makes it inaccessible to the people most directly involved in learning: learners and their teachers. This book avoids the unnecessary jargon and elitist language which has too often hitherto hindered teache… More >>

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