Educational administration and organization

The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools.

Parents and Schools Together shows administrators, teachers, and parents how to work together to produce high achieving students in urban school districts.

How to Help Your School Thrive Without Breaking the Bank will help you improve your school without investing in externally developed, expensive, and time-consuming reform programs or initiatives.

This book looks at Musharraf's Education Reforms in Pakistan and analyses the relationship between education policy, curriculum, Pakistani identity and citizenship.

This book provides a unique study of the role of universities, as organisation systems, in the pursuit of the Europe 2020 strategy.

This book explores different strands of thinking about sexuality education in contemporary urban India.

Classroom questions have traditionally focussed on testing the recall, understanding and application of content and methods.

Creating Learning Settings examines the design and implementation of learning settings informed by the newest, most expansive insights into how people learn in the post-industrial age.

It's a challenge every teacher faces finding ways to get and keep the attention of their students; getting them to engage fully in the lessons.

This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools.

This book uses narratives collected over a period of four years, detailing the stereotypes and stigmas attached to LGBTQ employees at the workplace in India, and it allows their voices to be heard.

In this landmark volume, Greg J.

This book has gone to great lengths to reveal, through research and practice, the possibilities of addressing and reducing racist practices in our schools.

How might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty?

The book systematizes the materiality concept, which has been fragmented in various fields of business administration and sometimes identified with interpretive postmodern business administration, along with the meta-theories discussed in the humanities and social sciences that aim to overcome humanistic dualism.

The development and functions of the Department of Education and local school systems, the financing of education, and the educational activities of provincial and federal governments are studied in this volume.

Providing a historical development of the UK education system and its policies, Alex McInch offers insight on how structural decisions impact how working-class pupils view and navigate the educational field.

Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated.

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

The Educational Leader's Guide for School Scheduling: Strategies Addressing Grades K-12 is the first publication to address creative scheduling at all levels: K-5 or 6, K-8, middle, and high schools.

The book examines how the understanding of the global and the local has changed in response to ongoing reconfigurations between the state and society.

The new millennium has seen a variety of parenting styles that differ greatly from previous generations.

Advancing Data Science Education in K-12 offers a highly accessible, research-based treatment of the foundations of data science education and its increasingly vital role in K-12 instructional content.

Improvement in Action, Anthony S.

Based on case studies of Chinese teachers in Shanghai and their workplace learning within the context of reform, this book examines how Chinese teachers learn together when they engage in school-based learning activities.

This book examines some of the most important challenges facing administrators and other professionals in PreK-12 schools today: safety and security, hiring and evaluating members of the faculty and staff, dealing with students' academic and behavioral challenges, assessing student performance, responding to disengaged or overly engaged parents, and handling external pressures from the community.

Today, many public schools, especially rural and inner-city areas, are so fraught with violence, so impersonal, and so poorly funded that they drive students away rather than inspire them to learn.

This volume examines the present status and future trends of textbook studies.

A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public school system from one of the worst in the nation to one of the most improved.

There are dramatic differences in the quality of teachers in every school.

Although many schools and educational systems, from elementary to tertiary level, state that they endorse anti-homophobic policies, pedagogies and programs, there appears to be an absence of education about, and affirmation of, bisexuality and minimal specific attention paid to bi-phobia.

In Putting the Pieces Together: A Systems Approach to School Leadership, the author addresses the need for systems planning in school administration in an effort to assist principals and district leadership in the face of changing demands.

In Why Knowledge Matters, E.

Published in 1993, this book considers the needs of older teenage students and the various forms of provision made for them.

Originally published in 1986.

In this innovative series Education Write Now, ten of education's most inspiring thought-leaders meet for a three-day retreat to think and write collaboratively, and then bring you the top takeaways you need right now to improve your school or classroom.

Accrediting agencies and legislatures have become increasingly insistent that governing boards and upper administrators undergo regular evaluation at colleges and universities.

Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers.

Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom.

Parent's Quick Start Guide to Dysgraphia provides parents and caregivers with an immediate overview of dysgraphia and steps they can take to support and encourage their child.

2017 Texas Association for Gifted and Talented Legacy Scholar Book Award2017 National Association of Gifted Children Scholar Book of the Year AwardIn Excellence Gaps in Education, Jonathan A.

In this lively and practical book, seasoned educator Jonathan Cassie shines a spotlight on gamification, an instructional approach that's revolutionizing K-12 education.

'This book should be on the shelf of every professional that works with teenagers in ANY setting.

This book explores a range of issues related to minority educational leaders' role in their society, in particular those working in a divided society under conflict.

This book theorizes that models based on the classical sciences have misguided educational leadership.