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Choosing Students
Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
This volume brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the issue of how higher education institutions can - or should - choose students during the early part of the 21st century. Many of the contributors report on research to develop and validate potential tools to assist those responsible for admission...
Making Sense of Research
What's Good, What's Not, and How To Tell the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
This book is for practitioners at all levels, from teachers making site-specific decisions to administrators making schoolwide and policy decisions.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
[header tag]Research-based strategies for turning around low-performing schools!
With case studies and tools, this companion book to Doubling Student Performance expands on ten research-based strategies for driving significant, measurable gains in student achievement.
America's Failing Experiment
How We the People Have Become the Problem
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Written in a provocative, jargon-free style ideal for stimulating classroom discussion, America’s Failing Experiment directly challenges would-be reformers who believe the solution to our current political paralysis is more democracy. Kirby Goidel finds that the fault for our contemporary political...
by Frederick M. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess distills knowledge from twenty-five years of working in and around school reform. Inspired by his conversations with young, would-be reformers who are passionate about transforming education, the book offers a window into Hess’s thinking...
by Michael Fullan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Award-winning author and educational reform expert Michael Fullan shows how to achieve successful local and systemic school reform through the strength of shared leadership.
by Shellee Hendricks, Russell Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Notes on Teaching delivers utterly relevant guidance, lucid explanatory commentary, and helpful examples that will help anyone become a better teacher. Like its siblings in the Notes On series (Notes on Directing and Notes on Cooking), the book’s clear, accessible, and practical insights into the...
Indo-French Educational Partnerships
Institutions, Technologies and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book examines the unexpected convergence between the higher education systems of India and France. This has resulted due to links between higher education investment and economic growth in the light of the knowledge triangle and the Lisbon strategy, which has recently been replaced by the Horizon...
A Journey through Governance
A Public Servant's Experience Under Six Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
A Journey through Governance: A Public Servant’s Experience under Six Presidents
Wiki Government
How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Collaborative democracy-government with the people-is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative,...
Presidential Transitions
It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than...
Leadership and School Boards
Guarding the Trust in an Era of Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
School boards shape society through systems of education. They choose who leads the system and how educators are selected to lead classrooms. They approve the allocation of millions of dollars every year. As leaders, the school board determines how their community defines the values, resources, and...
Clues to Achieving Consensus
A Leader's Guide to Navigating Collaborative Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
Here is a step-by-step guide to effective action in school districts, agencies, companies, organizations, and communities by using consensus decision-making. This book is based on the advice of experienced public and private leaders and participants who have used consensus approaches to solve problems...
by Paul D. Houston, Doug Eadie
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
The Board-Savvy Superintendent's hard-hitting, no-nonsense, advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadie's hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical, survive-and-thrive book that will help school district...