Educational administration and organization

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This second edition of the Handbook of Urban Education offers a fresh, fluid, and diverse range of perspectives from which the authors describe, analyze, and offer recommendations for urban education in the US.

We already know what works in schools; we just need to focus on getting it right.

While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood.

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Educators devoted to school reform focus all too often on the isolated components of K-12 education--this is the essential premise of this powerful new book.

In this book, leading educator Anthony Muhammad compiles prominent voices in the field, sharing their tried-and-true strategies for building a healthy school culture, beginning with teachers and their collaborative partnerships with one another, parents, and the community at large.

The importance of interagency cooperation within children's services has been highlighted within recent government strategy, including the Every Child Matters agenda, the development of Children's Centres and the expansion of Extended Schools.

One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

This volume presents historical and critical analyses of the emerging field of the learning sciences from both established and up-and-coming scholars.

This book presents strategies for using systemic theory and evidence-based practice in schools to support students, the adults in their lives, and their wider communities.

According to author Mike Schmoker, there is a yawning gap between the most well-known essential practices and the reality of most classrooms.

Under increasing pressure in the face of teacher evaluation systems and accountability measures, schools must focus on those teachers that exhibit marginal to incompetent teaching behaviors in their classrooms.

A winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA).

This book tells the story of the evolution of the Satellite Center which started from a small Satellite Systems Division in 1967 with a handful of engineers to a vibrant R&D center which is playing the lead role in the Indian Satellite Program.

This book explores new models and future possibilities of university governance in a Latin American context using management and leadership theories.

Seeking Balance: The Story of a Principal's Second Semester continues the story of fictional Principal Joe Gentry's first year on the job.

A long-awaited companion to the wildly popular HEART!

Positive Special Education spotlights the power of positive special education, combining insights from researchers and teachers in special education from several countries.

Now in its fourth edition, this comprehensive textbook uses a multi-contingency model to communicate the fundamentals of traditional and new organizational forms.

This volume tells the story of the University from its beginning to the end of its first and most formative period in 1919-20.

Although administrators have many responsibilities, none is more critical to the school, student, and their personal success than the hiring, supervising, and evaluating teachers.

This book provides step-by-step, concrete advice for aspiring school administrators as they strive to achieve principal certification.

Discover how to transform your professional development and become a truly connected educator with user-generated learning!

This book addresses both the subject of educational management and the economics of education.

An examination of the first year of college and the intersecting challenges facing today''s students, written by top educational researchers.

Many science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM) faculty wish to make an academic change at the course, department, college, or university level, but they lack the specific tools and training that can help them achieve the changes they desire.

The Essential Guide for New Teaching Assistants provides an introduction for teaching assistants who have recently been inducted, or are going through the process of induction, and are working in schools with children or young people.

Based on a case study of urban school superintendents in a leadership development program, this book offers a concrete demonstration of how adaptive leadership is applied and learned.

Over recent years, education systems across the globe have experimented with the concept of the autonomous school.

This volume seeks to identify and explore the dynamics of global forces on the development of higher education in Asia, in particular, how neoliberalism has affected reforms on university governance and management in the region.

Educators with a vision for more equitable, caring schools often struggle with where to begin.

Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism.

This book provides the practical information you need to make the transition from traditional "e;vocational"e; education programs to the new approaches to career and technical education.

Do you remember a time when you used the right words at the right moment, and they made all the difference?

The Second Canadian Conference on Education, held in Montreal, was the result of several years of determined effort by representatives of organizations concerned directly or indirectly with education, and convinced that "e;wider public understanding of Canada's educational needs and problems would be a major step towards their solution.

This book addresses the lived challenges to teacher leadership.

This ethnographic research investigates how adolescents use writing.

This book advances the debate about paying "e;student"e; athletes in big-time college sports by directly addressing the red-hot role of race in college sports.

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses.

This book provides a brief overview of the fundamental presumptions underlying the idea of management.

Continuous school improvement only happens when teachers and administrators collectively center their powers on ensuring student success within a professional learning community.

In addition to helping us make sense of a deeply complex issue, Race and Assessment in Higher Education: From Conceptualising Barriers to Making Measurable Change provides us with proven guidance for what works in addressing race-based inequities in higher education assessment and what we can do to promote greater racial inclusivity in this space.

In this book Apple explores the 'conservative restoration' - the rightward turn of a broad-based coalition that is making successful inroads in determining American and international educational policy.

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

In the last decade, more than 300 violent deaths have occurred in or near school campuses.

In From Strategy to Change-the last in a series-Daniel James Rowley comes full circle in defining his unique vision of the strategic planning process.

The K-12 Educator's Data Guidebook is a comprehensive field guide for school professionals learning to use data.

Great staff make great schools, and by choosing your staff carefully and helping them to develop, you will make a significant impact on the lives of the young people in your care.