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"The best college guide you can buy."-USA Today Every college and
university has a story, and no one tells those stories like former
New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske. That's why, for
nearly 40 years, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has been the leading
guide to 320+ four-year schools, including quotes from real
students and information you won't find on college websites. Fully
updated and expanded every year, Fiske is the most authoritative
source of information for college-bound students and their parents.
Helpful, honest, and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges
delivers an insider's look at what it's really like to be a student
at the "best and most interesting" schools in the United States,
plus Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland-so you can find the best
fits for you. In addition to detailed and candid stories on each
school, you will find: -A self-quiz to help you understand what you
are really looking for in a college -Lists of strong programs and
popular majors at each college -"Overlap" listings to help you
expand your options -Indexes that break down schools by state,
price, and average debt -Exclusive academic, social, and
quality-of-life ratings -All the basics, including financial aid
stats and acceptance rates Plus a special section highlighting the
20 public and private Best Buy schools-colleges that provide the
best educational value
This is Your #1 Go-To Guide To Get You Through the American
University Admissions Process #1 New Release in College Guides
University admissions in the USA is becoming tougher than ever.
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freshmen in colleges and universities in the United States this
school year. How can you prepare, get organized, and stay focused
throughout the search and admission process? Applying to college
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The process is a maze of standardized tests, school research,
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backgrounds learn to prevent common mistakes that are made on
applications. Learn more about the American admission process this
University Bound Organizer, especially about: Building a personal
profile Researching universities to identify schools that are a
good fit Securing letters of recommendation Developing your
university application essay Apply for financial aid and
scholarships Sort and manage application results How to make a
final decision If you have read Teens' Guide to College &
Career Planning, College Admission: From Application to Acceptance,
Step by Step; or Fiske Guide to Colleges 2021; you'll find The
University Bound Organizer to be your most valuable resource for
planning and securing your future.
Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a
racially equitable state education system from the ashes of
apartheid. The policymakers who came to power with Nelson Mandela
in 1994 inherited and education system designed to further the
racist goals of apartheid. Their massive challenge was to transform
that system, which lavished human and financial resources on
schools serving white students while systematically starving those
serving African, coloured, and Indian learners, into one that would
offer quality education to all persons, regardless of their race.
Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd describe and evaluate the strategies
that South Africa pursued in its quest for racial equity. They draw
on previously unpublished data, interviews with key officials, and
visits to dozens of schools to describe the changes made in school
finance, teacher assignment policies, governance, curriculum,
higher education, and other areas. They conclude that the country
has made remarkable progress toward equity in the sense of equal
treatment of persons of all races. For several reasons, however,
the country has been far less successful in promoting equal
educational opportunity or educational adequacy. Thus equity has
remained elusive. The book is unique in combining the perceptive
observations of a skilled education journalist with the analytical
skills of an academic policy expert. Richly textured descriptions
of how South Africa's education reforms have affected schools at
the grass-roots level are combined with careful analysis of
enrollment, governance, and budget data at the school, provincial,
and national levels. The result is a compelling and comprehensive
study of South Africa's first decade of education reform in the
post-apartheid period.
In 1989 New Zealand embarked on what is arguably the most
thorough and dramatic transformation of a compulsory state
education system ever undertaken by an industrialized country.
Under a plan known as Tomorrow's Schools this island nation of 3.8
million people abolished its national Department of Education and
turned control of its nearly 2,700 primary and secondary schools
over to locally elected boards of trustees. Virtually overnight,
one of the world's most tightly controlled public education systems
became one of the most decentralized. Two years later, in 1991,
with a new government in power, New Zealand enacted further reforms
that introduced full parental choice of schools and encouraged the
development of a competitive culture in the state education system.
Debate rages in the United States about whether similar reforms
would improve the performance of the country's troubled public
school system. Judgments about the potential benefits of these
ideas, as well as the general relevance of economic models to
educational systems, tap into deeply held values, and discussion in
the U.S. has been hampered by the lack of practical experience with
them. The extended and widespread experiences of New Zealand, whose
school system functions much like our own, provide U.S. policy
makers with a wide range of appropriate insights and implications
to consider as they gauge the merits of bold education reform. When
Schools Compete is the first book to provide detailed quantitative
and qualitative analysis of the New Zealand experiment. Combining
the perceptive observations of a prominent education journalist and
the analytical skills of an academic policy analyst, this book will
help supporters and critics of market-based education reforms
better anticipate the potential long-term consequences of applying
ideas of market competition to the delivery of education.
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