Part institutional memoir and part intellectual history, Transforming Comparative Education takes the Stanford "collective" as a framework for discussing major trends and contributions to the field from the early 1960s to the present day, ...

This book explores the growing tension between the requirements of employers for a flexible work force and the ability of parents and communities to nurture their children and provide for their health, welfare, and education.

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

This essential text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in economics, public policy, and education covers all major topics and is packed with international examples.

Pamphlet on the relationship between education and employment, with particular reference to developing countries in Africa and Latin America - reviews educational planning efforts and the problem of educated and uneducated unemployment in ...

This powerful book describes the policy system that has created one of the most effective and equitable school systems in the Americas, and provides compelling data from quantitative analyses and vivid observations of schools and classrooms ...

A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective.

The New Global Economy in the Information Age is unique in integrating the political with the economic and in the truly global view it takes of the changes under way.

This is a study of higher education in the world's four largest developing economies—Brazil, Russia, India, and China.