Altenbaugh R.J. (editor) Historical Dictionary of American Education

New York University Press, 1997. - 262 pages. Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system that leaves children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. In Japanese Lessons, Gail R. Benjamin recounts her experiences...

European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2010 - 193.s Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledgements. This Cedefop report covers the development of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) in the 27 members of the European Union, in two candidate countries to the EU (Croatia and Turkey) and in Iceland and Norway. It confirms the importance and priority attributed to NQFs across Europe. While this can be...

University Of Chicago Press, 2010. - 413 pages. In recent years, America’s position of leadership in the world has been challenged in many ways. One significant shift is that the country’s position as the preeminent global leader in higher education, particularly in the fields of science and technology, has come into question. American Universities in a Global Market addresses the variety of issues crucial to understanding this change. The volu...

Greenwood Press, 2003. - 444 pages. The first of its kind since the 1980s, this book provides authoritative definitions for more than 2,600 terms that apply to educational research, practice, and theory. The overall focus is on the most critical terms in education as used by current practitioners, yet references to significant historical events in education are also included. Each of the definitions is 25-250 words and has been written by a know...

W. Bertelsmann Verlag, GmbH & Co. KG, Bielefeld 2011 - 227p. This publication of the results of EUROSTUDENT IV represents an important contribution to com-parative research on European higher education. The study, the 4 th in a series, provides a comprehensive Synopsis of Indicators on the social and economic conditions of student life from 24 countries. The EUROSTUDENT research programme has evolved from modesbeginnings; only 8 coun-tries w...

Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2011, 240 s. The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) is the European Union's reference centre for vocational education and training. We provide information on and analyses of vocational education and training systems, policies, research and practice. Quality in education and training has been given new impetus in the past few decades. This is mainly due to...

Publications: Berlin - Bundesministerium f?r Bildung und Forschung /Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 2004, 167 p. This report aims to provide a specialist definition ofthe concept of educational standards, taking the international debate on education policy and educational science into account, and to present a framework describing the function of educational standards in the overall context of educational monitoring, school eva...

ENQA report on Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area, 2009 - 41 s. In the Berlin communiqu? of 19 September 2003 the Ministers of the Bologna Process signatory states invited the European Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) ‘through its members, in cooperation with the EUA, EURASHE, and ESIB’, to develop ‘an agreed set of standards, procedures and guidelines on quality assur...

Report ,2010 by the European University Association - 124 s. This report was written with several audience in mind: higher education institutions, students, european and national policy makers, QA agencies and other stakeholders. We hope that the analysis of this decade of change will be useful to all and will launch the european Higher education area on the right trajectory, one that will promote research-based education for the 21st century.

Conscience Press; 1st edition (September 1, 1999). 736 pages. This book argues that the academic meltdown in our public education system is intentional. It asserts that change agents have been working at the Education Department to change curriculum, not to improve teaching but to promote a socialist agenda. Their role is to create schools which will mold obedient citizens who no longer have the knowledge and skills to improve their lot in life,...