Educational administration and organization

Literacy learning continues to be central to schooling, and is currently of major concern to educators, policy developers, and members of the public alike.

Originally published in 1993.

This book examines the establishment (in 1880) and dissolution (in 1903) of the Victoria University as a federal institution for the North of England.

Louis Pepe does not shy away from providing insight into the more challenging sides of leading a team -what he calls "e;the tougher side of HR"e;-including delivering honest and critical feedback to allow for growth and suggesting someone leave the team to be successful elsewhere.

Nur spärlich sind Hinweise zu sozialen Herkunftsverhältnissen von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern, marginal die Kenntnisse über deren Bildungsbiografien.

Überfüllte Hörsäle, schlechte Studienbedingungen, hohe Studierendenzahlen: Das ist harte Realität an deutschen Hochschulen.

First published in 2009, this ground-breaking work introduced a new field in Africana studies and laid the groundwork for positioning the teachings of Elijah Muhammad in academia.

In this book, Paul Clarke argues that in order to live sustainably we need to learn how to live and flourish in our environment in a manner that uses finite resources with ecologically informed discretion.

Since teaching is a practical activity, efficient problem-solving skill is one of the fundamental competencies teachers need to possess.

About the first edition:"e;School governors will find this a sound and practical guide to the nature of their responsibilities and the process of managing their workload.

The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers is the comprehensive resource for transitioning professionals pursuing new career options in the nonprofit sector.

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

With the Common Core poised to markedly amplify the accountability stakes in public education, the pressure to post steep outcomes gains has never been fiercer.

This book provides new knowledge, insights and experience about school-university partnerships.

Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized studentsthose who have been historically marginalized in school and society.

Learn how you can work more effectively with your staff to improve your school.

"Schuladressen Deutschland" ist ein Verzeichnis der Schulen in Deutschland, aufgesplittet nach Bundesländern.

Mayoral takeovers of big city public education systems are desperation measures.

Regardless of the pressures and problems confronting colleges and universities today, they can ill afford to assume that the only essential qualities of those chosen to be presidents are their abilities to be sound managers, institutional developers, and public relations experts.

This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class.

Drawing on the work of innovative educators, this edited volume shows how adopting a solutions focused approach can offer new constructive ways forward for special education.

This unique, hands-on reference for school administrators offers guidelines for effective student engagement as well as reproducible action tools that will enable you to identify and share The Big Eight Student Engagement Strategies with your teachers, promote teacher growth and provide support for new and/or struggling teachers, collect data to help you consult and coach teachers effectively in student engagement, and provide direct assistance with skills and strategies to sharpen student engagement.

Originally published in 1992.

In too many districts, evaluation of teachers ensures competence but does little or nothing to encourage and support expertise.

Educational Measurement has been the bible in its field since the first edition was published by ACE in 1951.

The riotous world of the classroom, captured by the cartoonists at The New Yorker The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons, Second Edition is a hilarious compilation of cartoons that capture the joy, terror, excitement, anxiety, fun, and bedlam that teachers experience every day, as seen through the eyes of The New Yorker's best-loved cartoonists.

The book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power.

Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change.

What criteria are used to assess the scholarly merit of a thesis?

Teaching in a democracy is challenging and filled with dilemmas that have no easy answers.

Written by an experienced engineer, Practical Career Advice for Engineers: Personal Letters from an Experienced Engineer to Students and New Engineers is a series of personal conversation-style letters that offers practical career advice to all engineers.

Beginning with an abridged history of administrative and clinical supervision, The Principals Guide to Instructional Improvement offers principals both background information, as well as comprehensive models and examples, to analyze and improve teacher instruction.

Angesichts der aktuellen Arbeitsbedingungen in Wissenschaft und Hochschule – zwischen Qualifizierung, Selbstoptimierung und Prekarisierung – hangeln sich Wissenschaftler*innen jenseits unbefristeter Professuren von einem befristeten Arbeitsvertrag zum nächsten.

Modernising School Governance examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system.

The question of what form of pedagogy should be used at university is a complex and important one.

We often hear about the need to make demands on all students, especially those of color, of different cultural backgrounds, and from low income families.

The guide that helps students study faster, learn better, and get top gradesMore than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them study faster, learn better, and get top grades.

A visionary blueprint for educational reform that envisions school systems as opportunity engines, preparing young citizens for future workplace success, civic engagement, and fulfilling lives.

This book disrupts the false dichotomy of college versus career by showing how young people and the programs created to serve them integrate the worlds of college and career readiness as students work to learn against the odds and strive toward lives that matter to them.

This book explores the complexities of community colleges and global counterparts by focusing on critical analysis of governance, leadership, and mission.

Urban Dreams: Stories of Hope, Resilience, and Character is a collection of essays written by students in an urban community in New Jersey.

In this lively, student-centered work, Dr.

Better Results and Less Stress through Proven TechniquesTo be fully engaged in life means that we have clear goals as well as the focus and skills to accomplish those goals with ease and a sense of calm awareness.

If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live.

Bigger Isnt Always Better is designed to provide a practitioners viewpoint of the challenges and issues lacing school administrators particularly those who work in small districts.

2022 Phillip E.

The ability to lead a campaign is essential to success for today's college or university president.

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How to Survive Your Freshman Year offers incoming college freshmen the experience, advice, and wisdom of their peers: hundreds of other students who have survived their first year of college and have something interesting to say about it.

This study of Edgewood Academy--a private, elite college preparatory high school--examines what moral choices look like when they are made by the participants in an exceptionally wealthy school, and what the very existence of a privileged school indicates about American society.