Administration category: 6852 books
Beyond the Education Wars
Evidence That Collaboration Builds Effective Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"Beyond the Education Wars is filled with wisdom. Its thoughtful review and analysis of both research and specific case studies is first rate. It has been said that many of the most debated issues are the ones with the least effects. Anrig's book calls attention to what matters. I hope now that at the...
The Great School Debate
Choice, Vouchers, and Charters
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book examines reform in American education over the past fifty years and against this backdrop presents a compelling analysis of why contemporary voucher plans and charter schools have yet to fulfill the expectations of their advocates. It is the only book to date to attempt a comprehensive synthesis...
Charter Schools
Lessons in School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
This book takes the reader inside the charter school movement, answering such questions as:
*What is a charter school?
*How are charter schools different from other public schools?
*What does it take to create a charter school?
*What motivates the people who initiate such schools?
*What lessons can...
Accountability is the Key
Unlocking School Potential through Enhanced Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
A Nation at Risk in 1983. The most recent trend has been to tie administrative evaluations to student performance, increasing stress among administrators at all levels. The cumulative effect of three decades of challenges to administrative authority has undermined the publics view of educational administrators...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...
It's the Classroom, Stupid
A Plan to Save America's Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system. The plan reflects the author's rare fusion of on-the-ground experience as school board member, public administrator and political activist and exhaustive policy research. The...
by William Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2001
Dedicated, informed school board members are basic to school improvement and success. This practical book explains the role of the board member, from election to taking office. Potential board members are introduced to timely issues they are likely to face, including school violence, high-stake testing,...
by David Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
This book examines the political dynamics of the governance overhaul and how the management styles of Mayor Bloomberg and School Chancellor Klein affect its design and implementation in the Mayor’s first term. The trend toward mayoral governance is happening in other large cities, stimulated in...
Vanishing School Boards
Where School Boards Have Gone, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Bring Them Back
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Since Nation at Risk, NCLB and RTT, the once thought sacred institution of school boards as catalysts to ensure local control of schools is being redefined and are under heavy attack. Increasingly, school boards are disappearing from the discussion of promoting student achievement and their role as...
NCLB Meets School Realities
Lessons From the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Based on data from 6 states and 11 districts, this essential resource helps educators understand the issues raised by NCLB and its implications for educating all children.
by Jerry McBeath, Maria Elena Reyes, Mary Ehrlander
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Education Reform in the American States is a timely evaluation of the accountability movement in American public education, culminating in the No Child Left Behind Act, federal legislation of 2002. The authors treat the current accountability movement, placing it in historical context and addressing...
Identifying Leaders for Urban Charter, Autonomous and Independent Schools
Above and Beyond the Standards
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
A critical challenge for urban charter/autonomous/independent schools is finding educational leaders with the courage to lead with authenticity; integrity and ingenuity using standards based practices to effect transformational change within schools. Two decades after the first charter school opened,...
Education's Flashpoints
Upside Down or Set-Up to Fail
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The body of the text proceeds to identify and explain many flashpoints which are current in a world of education where students’ best interests are hampered by teachers’ self-interests. Whenever an issue emerges in education and is analyzed in the context of what is best for students or teachers,...
Urban Schools
Crisis and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Urban Schools: Crisis and Revolution describes America's inner-city public schools and the failure of most to provide even a minimally adequate education for their students. With numerous examples, James Deneen and Carm Catanese argue that these failures are preventable.
Early chapters document...