Product Description: This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education - the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts, and offers a more convincing and useful theory...read more

Product Description: Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on forteen case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented environmental and cultural challenges, the education of all children and young people to higher levels has become a key issue of international policy...read more

Product Description: In an age of globalization, climate change, famine and war, young people need to make sense of the world and decide how they can work together to change it.Schools are dominated by testing, league tables and competition. But it doesn’t have to be like this...read more

Product Description: The drive to improve schools is high on governments’ agendas but what do we want for our children? Is education about meeting new targets in, say, mathematics or is it about developing socially responsible, creative and enthusiastic learners? This book examines the assumptions behind the current improvement drive and suggests that educational change in the 21st century must be about more than efficient school management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The ten inner city schools in this study show how teachers can, with empathy and imagination, enable bilingual pupils to achieve all-round success. All the primary schools have, in different ways, rejected the official version of the literacy strategy to provide instead deeper links with children's spoken language and experience with exciting results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)