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by Tom Payzant
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
This important book, written by educational expert and urban school leader, Tom Payzant, offers a realistic understanding of what urban school leadership looks like from the inside. Payzant shares his first-hand knowledge of the unique managerial, instructional, and political tasks of this role. Effectively...
Implementing Transfer Associate Degrees: Perspectives From the States
New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 160
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In recent years, a convergence of several forces—increased legislative involvement in higher education, governmental and philanthropic pressure to increase postsecondary degree and certificate production, and fiscal belt-tightening at colleges and universities across America—has resulted in efforts...
by Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
In Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink address one of the most important and often neglected aspects of leadership: sustainability. The authors set out a compelling and original framework of seven principles for sustainable leadership characterized by Depth of learning and real achievement...
Organizational Capacity to Do and Use Evaluation
New Directions for Evaluation, Number 141
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Gain a greater understanding of organizational capacity to do and use evaluation and implications for evaluation capacity building (ECB). This volume is unique in that it represents a multiple case study of eight organizations that were committed to ECB. It:
Situates the study in terms of ECB...
Conducting and Using Evaluative Site Visits
New Directions for Evaluation, Number 156
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Because site visits are used so extensively in evaluation and because the consequences of poorly planned and conducted site visits are dire for so many evaluation constituents, it is essential to get it right. This issue discusses and defines site visits and what it means to get it right in planning,...
by Margaret Grogan, Charol Shakeshaft
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices.
Women and...
Engaging Youth in Leadership for Social and Political Change
New Directions for Student Leadership, Number 148
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Youth leadership initiatives can help young people engage in democratic life, participatory governance, and social and political change. Leadership education oriented towards political and social change must continue to evolve in response to the lived experience of youth. This volume explores those...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
This volume is the continuation of a two-part series that focuses on salient topics and issues affecting Black males as they engage in adult education and learning. Considering the historical and current effects on the way these men participate in adult education, this volume broadens the conversations...
How Ideal Worker Norms Shape Work-Life for Different Constituent Groups in Higher Education
New Directions for Higher Education, Number 176
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Work and family concerns are increasingly on the radar of colleges and universities. These concerns emerge out of workplace norms suggesting that for employees and students to be successful, they must be “ideal workers”.
This volume explores work norms in higher education, focusing on the...
Inquiry-Guided Learning
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 129
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Is inquiry-guided learning a universal answer for various teaching and learning ills in higher education?
With eight institutional case studies drawn from colleges and universities in English-speaking countries, this volume provides a clear description of inquiry-guided learning based on best...
Burden or Benefit: External Data Reporting
New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 166
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Blazing new trails in the area of reporting and transparency? Required and voluntary reporting of student data to external agencies has increased in volume, quantity, and complexity, and understanding the scope of reporting requirements and the associated burden is critical to higher education practitioners....
Data Visualization, Part 1
New Directions for Evaluation, Number 139
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Do you communicate data and information to stakeholders? This issue is Part 1 of a two-part series on data visualization and evaluation. In Part 1, we introduce recent developments in the quantitative and qualitative data visualization field and provide a historical perspective on data visualization,...
The "Front Porch": Examining the Increasing Interconnection of University and Athletic Department Funding
AEHE Volume 41, Number 5
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Higher education and intercollegiate athletics have long had a complicated relationship. Examining the interconnection between the two and from a variety of theoretical and practical angles, this volume highlights many of the debates surrounding higher education and intercollegiate athletics and the...
Global Development of the Community College Model
New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 177
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
While the community college is a longstanding institutional type within the U.S., the success of this model has recently garnered international attention. As countries outside the U.S. grapple with issues regarding access and affordability of higher education opportunity, the concept of the community...