Author : Peterson's Guides Staff
Publisher : Peterson Nelnet Company
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1996-08-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781560796053
A reference guide to more than 1,500 community and junior colleges.
Author : Carrie B. Kisker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1394180969
A comprehensive analysis of community colleges in the United States—updated with the latest research The revised seventh edition of The American Community College is an essential resource for practitioners and graduate students in the field of higher education. This book has been providing up-to-date information and statistics about community colleges for four decades and is a trusted and revered reference. Covering community college students, faculty, curriculum, assessment, finance, governance, and more, this book provide a thorough understanding of the role community colleges play in the American educational system. For educators, policymakers, and philanthropists alike, community colleges are important as the nexus of national efforts to prepare a highly skilled workforce and as the lynchpin of the K-20 education pipeline. This book delivers the facts and context readers need to make informed decisions in the community college space. Written by leading researchers in the field, The American Community College has been thoroughly revised with a greater focus on equity. Further, this edition includes access to online supplemental materials, including end-of-chapter guiding questions and a guide for transitioning from the 6th to the 7th edition. Additional updates include coverage of collaborations with community, economic, and workforce development organizations; a greater focus on entrepreneurship and innovation; recent efforts to improve student persistence and attainment through guided pathways and equity-minded student supports; and the growing emphasis on preparing a skilled workforce via noncredit training, credit for prior learning, micro-credentials, and community college baccalaureate programs. Readers of The American Community College will: Benefit from a comprehensive analysis of the most recent findings and up-to-date information on the American community college. Find completely revised and updated information about recent changes in the community college landscape Obtain current information on student access and outcomes, instruction, student services, and curricular functions Learn from updated tables and graphs that reflect the most current data and incorporate new examples of the services that colleges provide Since it was first published in 1982, The American Community College has become the primary resource that faculty, administrators, trustees, and researchers look to for information on these quintessentially American institutions.
Author : Peterson's Guides, Inc
Publisher : Peterson Nelnet Company
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1995-08-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781560794820
A Comprehensive guide to the more than 1,600 junior and community colleges in the U.S. and Canada as well as general information about application, older students, financial aid, and other topics.
Author : Peterson
Publisher : Peterson Nelnet Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 1983-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780878662166
A guide to more than 1,900 accredited two-year colleges in the United States and abroad provides students with school profiles focusing on academics, majors, standardized-testing requirements and more; articles on admission and transferring; and a state-by-state institution comparison chart.
Author :
Publisher : Peterson's
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2009
Category : College choice
ISBN : 0768926955
Author : Peterson's
Publisher : Peterson Nelnet Company
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780768943269
The perfect resource for anyone seeking undergraduate education at a four-year institution in the United States, Canada, or abroad--the trusted source among guidance counselors, parents, and students to find the right college or university for undergraduate study. Peterson's Four-Year Colleges 2021 includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the United States and Canada (and many international schools)--more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page school descriptions written by admissions personnel for approximately 100 colleges and universities. College-bound students and their parents can access details including campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty, expenses, student-faculty ratio, application deadlines, and contact information, as well as the most frequently chosen baccalaureate fields of study. Informative and easy-to-read profiles for more than 2,500 institutions--listed alphabetically by state (and followed by other countries), with facts and figures on campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty, expenses, student-faculty ratio, costs, financial aid, application deadlines, and contact information Approximately 100 two-page in-depth descriptions written by college administrators that offer additional information on academic programs and majors, campus life and activities, academic and campus facilities, study-abroad opportunities, admission requirements, and much more Special section called "The Advice Center" provides insider info on specialized college options--Honors Programs and Colleges, Online Learning, Women's Colleges, Public vs. Private. Helpful articles on surviving standardized tests, preparing to get into college, the "Early Decision" dilemma, paying for college, scholarship guidance, advice for international students applying to U.S. colleges and universities, and more
Author : Deborah L. Floyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000179362
This book brings together a collection of chapters with different research designs that explore the research, practice, and policies of community colleges. The chapters in this book are the result of the graduate students and their faculty mentor’s scholarly work, and a rigorous special issue’s peer review process. Furthermore, this book offers recommendations on how to mentor graduate students, in the absence of research and mentorship on how to publish for graduate students and practitioner-scholars, as well as recognizing that graduate programs and professional associations are important on the socialization of practitioner-scholars. Each book chapter addresses the implications for practice and future research, policy for community colleges, and recommendation for change indicated by the research results. Five broad research themes, higher education policy, leadership practices and roles, network community, student success, and technology, emerged from the empirical articles and critical reviews. A final chapter shares advice and lessons learned from the 30 authors and mentors. With the exception of Chapter 14, the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
Author : Bjorn Hamre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 135178983X
Testing and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts to include all children in the general school system, thus reducing exclusion. With an examination of the international testing culture and the politics of inclusion currently permeating national school reforms, this book raises a critical and constructive discussion of these movements, which appear to support one another, yet simultaneously offer profound contradictions. With contributions from around the world, the book analyses the dilemma arising between reforms that urge schools to move towards a constantly higher academic level, and those who practice a politics of inclusion leading to a greater degree of student diversity. The book considers the types of problems that arise when reforms implemented at the international level are transformed into policies and practices, firmly placing global educational efforts into perspective by highlighting a range of different cases at both national and local levels. Testing and Inclusive Schooling sheds light on new possibilities for educational improvements in global and local contexts and is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students interested in international and comparative education, assessment technologies and practices, inclusion, educational psychology and educational policy.
Author : Kenneth M. Zeichner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1350173355
This volume examines the multiple meanings of the term community in relation to teacher education research from an international perspective and present examples of exemplary work that represent different strands of community-focused and community-based teacher education. As well as laying out and clarifying the landscape of existing work on including communities in teacher education, Ken Zeichner argues for a view of teacher education in which existing power hierarchies are disrupted and in which parents/carers, families and local communities play central roles in the preparation of teachers and teacher educators. He also argues for a vision of teaching that includes instruction, curriculum development, and community participation. He explores the links between equity and justice in education in schools in marginalized communities and shows how decolonial approaches to teacher education that access community expertise can help shift power relations resulting in culturally sustaining and revitalizing forms of education.
Author : Menşure Alkiş Küçükaydin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031735188
