Educational administration and organization

"e;James Altschuld, David Kumar, and their chapter authors have produced an upbeat, provocative, visionary, and useful volume on educational evaluation.

Drawing from her experiences as a principal and coach, Aspasia Angelou offers invaluable insights, templates, and resources for principals in Title I or priority schools.

This insightful book presents and discusses the dialogues that took place in the New Directions in Middle Level Education Research session at the 2022 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference.

Be encouraged!

An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public.

This comprehensive, research-based resource illuminates the challenges and benefits of integrating community-based transformational learning (CBTL) experiences of teachers, students, and the community in early childhood settings.

Are schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school?

This book traces national policies behind the efforts of integrating education systems in Europe.

This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation.

This collection of peace education efforts in conflict and post-conflict societies brings together an international group of scholars to offer the very latest theoretical and pedagogical developments.

A collection of essays by presidents of prominent liberal arts colleges and leading intellectuals who reflect on the meaning of educating individuals for leadership and how it can be accomplished in ways consistent with the missions of liberal arts institutions.

This book is an alternative account of special education from the cross-generational perspective of 15 mothers whose children labelled learning dis/abled (LD) attended public schools during the last four decades.

An accessible and original look into the education policy of Australia that considers how it came about, how it was steered to the political right, how some educators struggled to implement or resist it in their schools and how it applies to other systems.

Challenging the popular opinion that the rising inter-personal and inter-organizational networks confer advantage to individuals as they secure education resources, this book identifies new forms of emerging social exclusions.

Progressive educational approaches are currently in crisis in the face of globalization and conservative retrenchment.

This book explores the efforts of educational reformers who sought to link secondary and higher education in the decades after 1870.

Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced.

This collection of original essays examines the history of American education as it has developed as a field since the 1970s and moves into a post-revisionist era and looks forward to possible new directions for the future.

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO).

A fascinating and important history of foreign students in American higher education.

Focusing on non-traditional students in higher education institutions, this new book from renowned scholar John Levin examines the extent to which community college students receive justice both within their institution and as an outcome of their education.

Contesting prior assumptions that institutions simplify the world for the sake of efficiency, this book argues that rather than institution expansion indicating the movement of markets to optimal states, expanding institutions generate information costs.

This is a pithy, no-nonsense, no-excuses guide to maximizing the quality and quantity of your scholarly products.

This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States.

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO).

This book explores the complex questions facing funding agencies and foundations as they grapple to understand and define gender equity in education.

If it takes a village to raise a child, Anne Wescott Dodd and Jean L.

This book is an informative resource on college accreditation today and explains how colleges and universities can manage the accreditation process successfully.

Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory.

What do the Hollywood 'school films' of the 1980's and 1990's communicate about education and race?

This review of research in school choice adapts Sen's theory of Capability developing a more complex theoretical framework for understanding education markets.

The many public debates launched by governments on education, such as Tony Blair's emphasis on "e;education, education, education"e; have nonetheless failed to consider the place of the good society in educational endeavour.

In the Western world, education policy has increasingly become a local matter.

Citizenship and Political Education Today brings together a collection of essays from around the world; including discussion of politics and education in Australia, The United States of America, New Zealand, Norway, England, France, Germany and the wider European Union.

Exploring current approaches to addressing boys' education in schools, this book highlights the limitations of structural reform initiatives and the failure to address the impact of socioeconomic status, race, sexuality, disability and hegemonic masculinity on both boys' and girls' participation in schooling.

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America.

All societies contain ethnic divisions.

Friendship and Educational Choice provides a unique insight into how young people go about making decisions about their educational options and the subtle, yet crucial, influence of friends and peers on these processes.

We now know much more about the process of language development in all children, and also much more about variations in the process due to multi-cultural and multi-linguistic backgrounds, and developmental anomalies.

The emergence of learning policy is traced through a history of postwar UK education and training.

The book traces the origins of change in general education in the last years of the Soviet Union and afterwards in the Russian Federation.

Andy Green develops on his earlier historical work on Education and State Formation in a study of education and the nation state in an era of globalization.

This is the first western book on the subject of wartime Soviet schooling.

Transforming Classroom Culture is an anthology of original work authored by diverse faculty who work in a variety of New England college and university settings - private and public, racially homogeneous and diverse.

This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.

A presentation of four years of close observation of research and knowledge transfer practices in a university.

This book analyzes policies in eight European countries that aim to intervene in the reproduction of social and educational inequalities.

Using a platform of substantial theories and applications, this book explores approaches taken to university leadership, how leadership is formed, and challenges that leadership of universities experiences within the context of Europe.

Gender is a hotly debated topic in the field of education.

The complementary areas of comparative, international, and development education occupy a critical part of the landscape in educational policy debates in a global context.