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This Tutor Delivery Pack for AQA GCSE (9-1) Biology Higher has a
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homework Detailed explanation on the use of the pack Information
for parents Specification guidance Needs analysis for the parents
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This Tutor's Guild AQA GCSE (9-1) Assessment Pack for English
Language (Grades 5-9) is curriculum matched and contains everything
needed for a whole academic year of private tutoring: 38
twenty-minute topic tests - one for every lesson in the English
Language Tutor Delivery Pack - to provide short bursts of
additional practice of the key concepts covered Three summative
tests - checkpoint challenges - that draw on knowledge and skills
across each of the three key areas of the course: reading, writing
and spelling, punctuation and grammar Full practice papers for exam
practice, designed to match the style and demands of the new AQA
(9-1) English Language GCSE.
This Tutor Assessment Pack for Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Mathematics
Foundation is curriculum matched and contains everything needed for
a whole academic year of private tutoring. It provides: 38
twenty-minute topic tests - one for every lesson in the Maths Tutor
Delivery Pack - to provide short bursts of additional practice of
the key concepts covered Six summative tests, called checkpoint
challenges, that draw on knowledge and skills in the six subject
areas of the new 9-1 GCSE Maths: number; algebra; ratio, proportion
and rates of change; geometry and measures; probability and
statistics. Full practice papers for exam practice, designed to
match the style and demands of the new Edexcel (9-1) Mathematics
GCSE.
The authors of Education, War & Peace travelled to Liberia,
Sierra Leone and South Sudan to conduct research on education in
these conflict-affected countries. They uncovered an inspiring
story of entrepreneurs stepping into the breach and providing
low-cost private schooling to large numbers of children in areas
where government was not working well and basic infrastructure had
been destroyed. For-profit schools also expanded quickly to soak up
educational demand once the conflicts were over. The fees were
affordable to families on the poverty line and the children did
better academically than those in government schools. Yet
international agencies continue to promote government-run schools,
even though state education has been a major source of both
conflict and corruption in these countries. This groundbreaking
study advocates a different approach. Low-cost private schools
should be welcomed by policymakers as a means of providing high
quality educational opportunities for all.
What is a charter school? Where do they come from? Who promotes
them, and why? What are they supposed to do? Are they the silver
bullet to the ills plaguing the American public education system?
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overviewand
analysis of charter schools and their many dimensions. It shows
that charter schools as a whole lower the quality of education
through the privatization and marketization of education. The final
chapter provides readers with a way toward rethinking and remaking
education in a way that is consistent with modern requirements.
Society and its members need a fully funded high quality public
education system open to all and controlled by a public authority.
The book compares the standardized test scores of both elementary
and high schools charter schools with the scores for regular public
schools located nearby. It examines the position supported by
charter school advocates that charter schools should be supported
because they outperform regular public schools. Given that charter
schools in Chicago have enjoyed a great deal of support from the
past two mayors, and that they make up some 20% of all public
schools in the city, Chicago is the perfect location in which to
examine this critical issue. Charter schools siphon money and in
theory better students from regular public schools at a time when
public schools in almost every big city faces financial
difficulties. Teachers unions oppose them, as do most liberal
scholars. Conservatives and big business support them, as do most
conservative scholars. The existence of charter schools is a most
divisive issue! Yet, little real data exist to allow us to properly
judge the effectiveness of charters. The current work changes that
by examining test data in a sophisticated manner that allows
comparisons between charters and regular schools. This work should
move the debate forward, but will no doubt generate controversy as
well.
This book offers insight into the enlightened idea of a
collaborative group leading a school. Through collaboration, a
spirit of trust and cooperation can be fostered in a faculty.
Leadership with the children always in the decision making is the
goal. Take a look and find one good article after another by some
of the brightest and best teachers in the Waldorf community of
schools. This book can illuminate for parents why Waldorf schools
use collaborative leadership instead of a more traditional "head of
school" form and can strengthen for teachers the resolve to
formulate a truly collaborative leadership model for any school.
This book can illuminate for parents why Waldorf schools use
collaborative leadership instead of a more traditional "head of
school" form and can strengthen for teachers the resolve to
formulate a truly collaborative leadership model for any school.
This book can illuminate for parents why Waldorf schools use
collaborative leadership instead of a more traditional "head of
school" form and can strengthen for teachers the resolve to
formulate a truly collaborative leadership model for any school.
This book can illuminate for parents why Waldorf schools use
collaborative leadership instead of a more traditional "head of
school" form and can strengthen for teachers the resolve to
formulate a truly collaborative leadership model for any school.
Drug and alcohol education in public schools may be important, but
its authoritarian stance often invites skepticism among teachers
and students alike. Yet this program has its roots not in modern
bureaucracy or even Prohibition but in a social movement that
flourished over a century ago.
Scientific Temperance Instruction was the most successful
grassroots education program in American history, championed by an
army of housewives in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union under
the leadership of Mary Hanchett Hunt. As Hunt and her forces took
their message across the country, they were opposed by many
educators and other professionals who believed that ordinary
citizens had no business interfering with educational matters. STI
sparked heated conflict between expert and popular authority in the
debate over alcohol education, but it was eventually mandated as
part of public school curricula in all states.
The real issue surrounding STI, argues Jonathan Zimmerman, was
not alcohol but the struggle to reconcile democracy and expertise.
In this first book-length study of the crusade for STI, he shows
Mary Hunt to be a wily and manipulative politician as he examines
how citizens and experts used knowledge selectively to advance
their own agendas. His work offers a microcosm for observing
Progressive Era tensions between democracy and professionalism,
localism and centralization, and social conservatism and
liberalism.
"Distilling Democracy" points up a crucial and ongoing dilemma
in our education system: educational directives handed down by
experts deny citizens the right to transmit their values to their
children, while populist educational values sometimes stifle
classroom debate. By using history to demonstrate the public's
participation in shaping public education, Zimmerman suggests that
however unappealing the program, society needs to embrace such
popular movements in order to uphold true democracy. His book
offers fresh insight into an overlooked chapter in our history and
will spark debate by raising fresh questions about lay influence on
school curricula in modern America.
In this critique of the US public school system, the author uses
examples from the real experiences of other teachers and parents
who share his concern with shaping the values of caring,
responsible citizens of the future. Kozol has also written
Illiterate America and Savage Inequalities.
Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate
number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the
most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists
describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students
for success and power, and they also provide a lively
behind-the-scenes look at prep-school life and underlife.
In 2016, Canada's newly elected federal government publically
committed to reconciling the social and material deprivation of
Indigenous communities across the country. Does this outward shift
in the Canadian state's approach to longstanding injustices facing
Indigenous peoples reflect a "transformation with teeth," or is it
merely a reconstructed attempt at colonial Indigenous-settler
relations? Prairie Rising provides a series of critical reflections
about the changing face of settler colonialism in Canada through an
ethnographic investigation of Indigenous-state relations in the
city of Saskatoon. Jaskiran Dhillon uncovers how various groups
including state agents, youth workers, and community organizations
utilize participatory politics in order to intervene in the lives
of Indigenous youth living under conditions of colonial occupation
and marginality. In doing so, this accessibly written book sheds
light on the changing forms of settler governance and the
interlocking systems of education, child welfare, and criminal
justice that sustain it. Dhillon's nuanced and fine-grained
analysis exposes how the push for inclusionary governance
ultimately reinstates colonial settler authority and raises
startling questions about the federal government's commitment to
justice and political empowerment for Indigenous Nations,
particularly within the context of the everyday realities facing
Indigenous youth.
The Independent Schools Yearbook is the highly-respected book of
reference of Independent Schools in membership of the Independent
Schools Council's Associations: HMC, GSA, The Society of Heads,
IAPS, and ISA. Published and updated annually since 1889 the 'Blue
Book' is often referred to as the 'Bible' of information on
independent schools. More than 1,200 School Profiles with
information on Contact details, Location, Facilities, Numbers,
Admission, Fees, Scholarships and Bursaries, Staff, Curriculum,
Sports/Games, The Arts, Extra-Curricular Activities, Community
Service, Recent/Planned Developments, News and Events. Entries are
arranged by ISC Association with alphabetical and geographical
indexes, along with an index of scholarships and bursaries. "May I
say how valuable and useful your publication proves itself to be -
I regularly direct parents to it when considering senior school
options as well as using it extensively myself." Head of an IAPS
School
This Tutor Delivery Pack for AQA GCSE (9-1) Chemistry Higher
contains everything you need for a whole academic year of private
tutoring: 38 complete lessons, complete with plans, activities and
homework Detailed explanation on the use of the pack Information
for parents Specification guidance Needs analysis for the parents
and the students Mapping guide to the Revise GCSE Series Progress
and End-of-Lesson Report templates Differentiation and extension
ideas Customisable certificates in the digital version of the pack
International schooling has expanded rapidly in recent years, with
the number of students educated in international schools projected
to reach seven million by 2023. Drawing on the author's extensive
experience conducting research in international schools across the
globe, this book critically analyses the concept of international
schooling and its rapid growth in the 21st century. It identifies
the forces driving this trend, asking to what extent this is an
enterprise that meets the needs of a global elite, and examining
its relationship to national systems of education. The author
demonstrates how wider social inequalities around socio-economic
difference, ethnicity, 'race' and gender are reproduced through
international schooling and examines the theory that
'international' curricula are in fact Western curricula. Presenting
research from diverse countries including Russia, Malaysia, the
UAE, the UK, and Bahrain, the author explores ways in which
international schools adapt to local cultural contexts and examines
the views of parents, students, teachers and school leaders towards
the education that they provide.
Secondary school graduates of the late 1980s and early 1990s have
found themselves coping with economic insecurity, social change,
and workplace restructuring. Drawing on studies that have recorded
the lives of young people in two countries for over fifteen years,
The Making of a Generation offers unique insight into the hopes,
dreams, and trajectories of a generation. Although children born in
the 1970s were more educated than ever before, as adults they
entered new labour markets that were de-regulated and precarious.
Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn discuss the consequences of education
and labour policies in Canada and Australia, emphasizing their
long-term impacts on health, well-being, and family formation. They
conclude that these young adults bore the brunt of policies
designed to bring about rapid changes in the nature of work.
Despite their modest hopes and aspirations for security, those born
in the 1970s became a vanguard generation as they negotiated the
significant social and economic transformations of the 1990s.
This volume of essays examines the empirical evidence on school
choice in different countries across Europe, North America,
sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It demonstrates the advantages
which choice offers in different institutional contexts, whether it
be Free Schools in the UK, voucher systems in Sweden or
private-proprietor schools for low-income families in Liberia.
Everywhere experience suggests that parents are `active choosers':
they make rational and considered decisions, drawing on available
evidence and responding to incentives which vary from context to
context. Government educators frequently downplay the importance of
choice and try to constrain the options parents have. But they face
increasing resistance: the evidence is that informed parents drive
improvements in school quality. Where state education in some
developing countries is particularly bad, private bottom-up
provision is preferred even though it costs parents money which
they can ill-afford. This book is both a collection of inspiring
case studies and a call to action.
King Alfred School in north London was founded in 1898 by a group
of Hampstead radicals in an age of educational experiment and
innovation. Whereas many educational ventures of that era set up by
small groups of idealists soon floundered or quickly lost their
crusading zeal, King Alfred School has developed over the last
century with its original ideals largely unchanged and its
enthusiasm for its distinctive form of education undiminished. This
centenary history of a particularly interesting progressive school
will appeal to a much wider circle than that of the school's old
students. It is a major contribution to the history of progressive
education in Britain which in turn is set in the context of a wider
educational, social and political history. The study is based on a
wide range of sources and is informed by the author's extensive
knowledge of the history of education in the twentieth century, a
field in which he has published widely.
Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of
St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two
of the most academically successful independent schools in the
world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of
that extraordinary phenomenon, the English public school,
institutions that are as admired in some quarters as they are
despised and vilified in others. His book, however, is no
hagiography, and pulls no punches when it comes to the author's
views on the failings of private educational establishments, while
also showing that their benefits can be, and increasingly are,
harnessed for a much wider good. His own long and influential
experience within that world allows him to expose a world that is
rarely less than baffling to outside observers, and frequently
reviled; his often scathing and satirical view of public schools
make his book a must read for anyone who is thinking of putting
little Tarquin down for Eton or, conversely, for anyone who would
like to see the places razed and their ruins sown with salt. But,
as the author writes, 'If you are English and reading this now, a
public school boy or girl is influencing your life.' 'A fascinating
and important book which explains how public schools have become
some of the most successful schools in the world' - Lord Baker of
Dorking, former Secretary of State for Education 'Martin Stephen
cannot write a boring line. By turns utterly horrifying and
hilariously funny, [his book] is also academically fascinating, and
. . . a rip-roaring good read' - Jilly Cooper
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