Educational administration and organization

Women Leaders: Advancing Careers recognizes that while the majority of students enrolled in educational leadership preparation programs continue to be women; women's advancement to top school executive roles is still not comparable to that of men.

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.

Promising Practices to Support Family Involvement in Schools is a must-have volume for every contemporary educator.

Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and common-sense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning.

Leading Research in Educational Administration: A Festschrift for Wayne K.

Scholarship related to financial and consumer education largely concerns itself with the acquisition, management, and growth of financial resources.

Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG of AERA, this inaugural volume in the new IAP book series, The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education, focuses on the contributions and impact of the leaders of the modern middle school movement.

Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes.

Thirty-six of the best thinkers on family and community engagement were assembled to produce this Handbook, and they come to the task with varied backgrounds and lines of endeavor.

The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation.

The 21st Century Parent emphatically remind us that the missing ingredient in closing the gaps in achievement is heaping measure of parent engagement and community.

This book, Human Resources Management in Education, Developing Countries Perspectives, contains eleven chapters.

Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children's literacy learning are pervasive.

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The focus of this book is on educational equity issues affecting immigrants and refugees around the world.

This edited book highlights the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship.

Analyzing School Contexts is the ninth volume in a series of research and theory in school administration dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

Educational Leadership: Building Bridges Among Ideas, Schools, and Nations breaks new ground by connecting many ideas to educational leadership that have traditionally been discussed as part of leaders' contexts by connecting them and showing how international issues can unite scholars and educators in action.

This book is intended for use in professional courses of study and workshops in fields such as education administration, public administration, sports administration, law enforcement, allied health and social work, human resource management, and other fields in which groups from diverse backgrounds participate as employees, students, or clients.

This volume of Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice takes a resource perspective toward culture, ethnicity, and race.

National and international teacher education organizations and scholars have called for an increased emphasis on clinical practice in educator preparation programs.

Much has been written about how public schools in the United States are funded.

This book is designed to support individuals, particularly in higher education settings, gain knowledge and skills related to critical dialogues that support effective conflict management.

Black Males in Postsecondary Institutions: Examining their Experiences in Diverse Institutional Contexts offers a comprehensive examination of the experiences of Black males in our nation's higher education institutions.

Collaboration, Narrative, and Inquiry that Honor the Complexity of Teacher Education presents a narrative exploration of three teacher educators' collaborative and transnational inquiry into their practices.

Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education.

Effective online teaching is a well-documented topic, however, this book is different because it specifically addresses the effective and affective pedagogy and learning.

Research is clear: School leadership quality matters.

In response to changes in the workforce, scholars are calling for mentoring that is more fluid, flexible, and responsive to the needs of diverse groups of individuals, whether culturally (Kochan & Pascarelli, 2012; Kochan, Searby, George, & Mitchell Edge, 2015) or intergenerationally (Thorpe, 2012) diverse.

Conflict management is an overlooked area in leadership development.

In 1987, Jacqueline Danzberger described school boards as the forgotten players.

The objective of this edited volume is to shed light upon K-12 perspectives of various school stakeholders in the current unique context of increasing political polarization and heightened teacher and student activism.

This book is a continuation of the first text entitled "e;Pyrrhic Victory The Cost of Integration"e;.

Teachers increasingly are being charged to conduct research on teaching and learning in their classes.

As the first scholarly book of its kind, this edited volume brings together educational leadership scholars and practitioners from across the country whose research focuses on the unique contributions and struggles that Latinas across the diaspora face while leading in schools and districts.

In this book, internationally migrant families invite us to listen to the storylines of their mostly muted voices as they navigate the local schools in their new cultural context.

Measure, Use, Improve!

While much of the debate over the growth of charter schools center on the student academic performance of charter schools as well as the financial impact that they have on school budgets, there is a growing concern that charter schools use harsh discipline to nudge certain students out.

Working While Black: The Untold Stories of Student Affairs Practitioners will examine the narratives of student affairs professionals and how they navigate their professional experiences.

Curriculum Windows Redux: What Curriculum Theorists Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists in contemporary terms.

This series is dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

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

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

What is wrong with young people today?

An innovation in learning improves upon the implementation of the standard practice or introduces a new practice, thus achieving greater learning outcomes.

This is a critical examination of the people who teach and produce research and scholarship in our institutions of higher education.

The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives.

Attrition among doctoral students has become a perennial issue in higher education (Gardner, 2009; Golde, 2000) as 40 to 60 percent of doctoral students do not complete their program of study (Bair &Haworth, 2005).

Arising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice.

The School Leadership Program (SLP) is a federal grant sponsored by the United States Department of Education.