Educational administration and organization

The current volume, Advances in Latent Variable Mixture Models, contains chapters by all of the speakers who participated in the 2006 CILVR conference, providing not just a snapshot of the event, but more importantly chronicling the state of the art in latent variable mixture model research.

This book is a search for the promises of public education and the places where these are broken by critics feeding at the academic and professional trough.

This volume is not primarily concerned with what students should learn, nor even how they should learn.

(published in co-operation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement)As subsequent chapters point out, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires states to provide assistance to districts in improving the schools within their purview.

Qualitative Research Methods in Education and Educational Technology was written for students and scholars interested in exploring the many qualitative methods developed over the last 50 years in the social sciences.

This book series on Theory and Research in Educational Administration is about understanding schools.

This volume gathers some of the methods being developed by evaluators from university settings and the private sector.

Advancing Educational Productivity provides a wealth of critical analysis on educational matters at the local, state, national, and international levels.

This book is the fifth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

This handbook is for practitioners who lead public and private elementary schools, middle schools or high schools.

The chapters in this book should stimulate the reader not only to think about the kind of leadership that is needed to improve schools in the Caribbean (using'schools' in the widest sense to range from early childhood to higher education institutions) but also other forms of support.

This book presents a range of evidence-based analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning.

The Secure Child: Timeless Lessons In Parenting and Childhood Education was designed to contribute meaning to the adage "e;what was old is new again.

This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in Becoming Teach For America Teachers.

This series of Works on stress and coping is centered on understanding the sources, experiences, and consequences of stress and coping in the educational arena.

This volume focuses on family and community connections with education during the high school years.

Studies in School Improvement is the eighth volume in a series on research and theory in school administration dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

This volume will examine the historical emergence of the concept of career including early ideas about the meaning and role of work and how it fits with life.

Educators everywhere will want their hands on this book!

For decades, education researchers have understood that school/university partnerships can be beneficial for education reform.

This proposal is for a book about pedagogical leadership that draws upon an extensive literature base as well as empirical research by the author in order to examine forms of leadership and management that promote and instill education for learning and social justice.

For the first time, this book brings together three controversial topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement criteria, tracking of students into courses of study by the same criteria, and retention of students in their present grade so that they repeat a year's work instead of being promoted.

This text is divided into three parts: policy perspectives on urban education reform; the supply, demand and quality of city teachers; and equity and adequacy in urban schools.

"e;Schooled for the future?

This third book in International Research on School Leadership, focuses on the changing nature of instructional leadership in the 21st century.

The Nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are more culturally revered today than ever.

Navigating Complexities in Leadership: Moving Towards Critical Hope emerged in response to the confluence of complexities experienced by leadership educators and practitioners amidst global pandemics.

Globalization and Education: Teaching, Learning and Leading in the World Schoolhouse explores the various ways educators' work is influenced by globalization.

This book is intended to be sort of a Chicken Soup for the educational academic's soul.

This volume will address major frameworks for understanding family involvement and government support of family involvement projects in the initial chapters.

Colleges and universities face a variety of challenges in meeting the needs of students, and one of the greatest is their ability to respond to student needs while protecting institutional and academic integrity.

This work looks at managing school system change.

This is the first chronicle of the history of social justice as a line of inquiry within the field of educational administration.

This unique book presents lessons a straight principal-turned-professor has learned through personal experience and research with gay and lesbian high school students.

In this volume in the IAP series on Advances in Service-Learning Research, top researchers present recent work studying aspects of program development, student and community outcomes, and future research directions in the field of service-learning and community engagement.

Qualitative Research Methods in Education and Educational Technology was written for students and scholars interested in exploring the many qualitative methods developed over the last 50 years in the social sciences.

This proposal is for a book about pedagogical leadership that draws upon an extensive literature base as well as empirical research by the author in order to examine forms of leadership and management that promote and instill education for learning and social justice.

This concise monograph addresses the expanding field of family involvement to out of school time (OST).

There is an increasing proliferation of service-learning courses in colleges and universities in the U.

With increasing diversity and widening disparities in the United States and globally there are significant challenges and opportunities throughout the educational landscape.

This third book in International Research on School Leadership, focuses on the changing nature of instructional leadership in the 21st century.

This book is the latest volume in the Research on Stress and Coping in Education series.

The focus of this book extends the discourse on student engagement beyond prescriptive definitions and includes substantive ethical and political issues relating to this concept.

A Guidebook for Students in Higher Education who are American, International, or Studying Abroad.

Challenges of work-life balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty.

This volume contains papers from the Second International Curriculum Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC).

This particular case study is designed to explore the extent to which a teacher evaluation system is effective.

This is a book of oral narratives, collected from participants at a school created for first-generation, immigrant youth.

Yes We Can: Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform is a empirically-based book on urban education reform to not only proclaim that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produce a body of literature that examines current practices and then offer practical implications for all involved in this arduous task.

This is a study of cross-national policies and practices on information and communication technology in education.