Contemporary Challenges Confronting School Leaders is the eleventh in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.
Confirming his moniker as 'America's philosopher of democracy,' John Dewey engaged in a series of public debates over the course of his lifetime, vividly demonstrating how his thought translates into action.
Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills politicians and public servants need in their careers.
Amidst the contentious debates about teacher effectiveness, most people believe that unions, education colleges, charter networks, consulting agencies, textbook publishers, test producers, professional associations, teachers, and researchers disagree with one another about the most essential school reforms.
Education policy over the past thirty years has been powerfully influenced by well-funded and slickly produced research reports produced by advocacy think tanks.
The daily process of public service provision and administration is filled with value judgments and value trade-offs, and the safeguarding of just and fair processes is key to the public's trust in governing institutions.
The daily process of public service provision and administration is filled with value judgments and value trade-offs, and the safeguarding of just and fair processes is key to the public's trust in governing institutions.
The concept of school turnaround-rapidly improving schools and increasing student achievement outcomes in a short period of time-has become politicized despite the relative newness of the idea.
This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were able to sustain school improvement for a decade on either state and/or national criteria that measure student performance outcomes.
The concept of school turnaround-rapidly improving schools and increasing student achievement outcomes in a short period of time-has become politicized despite the relative newness of the idea.
The general theme of this book is to encourage the use of relevant methodology in data mining which is or could be applied to the interplay of education, statistics and computer science to solve psychometric issues and challenges in the new generation of assessments.
This book consists of a collection of the high-quality research articles in the field of computer vision and robotics which are presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Robotics (CVR 2025), organized by National Institute of Technology, Goa, India, during 25–26 April 2025.
This book consists of a collection of the high-quality research articles in the field of computer vision and robotics which are presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Robotics (CVR 2025), organized by National Institute of Technology, Goa, India, during 25–26 April 2025.
This book includes research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Science and Network Engineering (ICDSNE 2025) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India, during July 18–19, 2025.
The two-volume set LNCS 15751 + 15752 constitutes revised selected papers from the 29th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2025, which took place in Miyakojima, Japan, during April 14–18, 2025.
This book includes research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Science and Network Engineering (ICDSNE 2025) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India, during July 18–19, 2025.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Practical applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2025, held in Lille, France, during June 25–27, 2025.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Practical applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2025, held in Lille, France, during June 25–27, 2025.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2025, held in Hangzhou, China, on February 24, 2025.
The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, on October 19, 2025.
Nonlinear models are indispensable in modern finance, yet their reliance on numerical root-finding methods introduces layers of complexity that demand careful attention.
This book contains revised selected papers from the 32nd International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2025, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in August 2025.
The two-volume set LNCS 15751 + 15752 constitutes revised selected papers from the 29th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2025, which took place in Miyakojima, Japan, during April 14–18, 2025.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things and Systems, AIoTSys 2025, held in Lanzhou, China, during August 15–17, 2025.
This book is exploration into the forefront of digital evolution, presenting a compelling array of real-world case studies that underscore the transformative impact of emerging processes and services on asset management.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2025, held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, during June 23–25, 2025.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things and Systems, AIoTSys 2025, held in Lanzhou, China, during August 15–17, 2025.
This book focuses on four key parts of the Blockchain ecosystem, which are the most relevant for financial services executives: Tokenomics and Digital Platforms, Markets, Privacy and the emerging phenomenon of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).
The book covers a wide array of rhythmic phenomena in plants, ranging from diurnal and circadian rhythms to underexplored topics such as rhizomicrobiome and algae rhythms.
The book covers a wide array of rhythmic phenomena in plants, ranging from diurnal and circadian rhythms to underexplored topics such as rhizomicrobiome and algae rhythms.
The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, on October 19, 2025.
Complementarity functions lie at the heart of modern optimization, offering a powerful way to reformulate the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and the original optimization problem into more tractable forms, either as systems of equations or unconstrained minimization problems.
The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, on October 19, 2025.
This book includes high-quality papers presented at the Third International Conference on Data Science and Management (ICDSM 2024), organized by the Gandhi Institute for Education and Technology, Bhubaneswar, from December 13–14, 2024.
