Educational administration and organization

Inclusive education is a complex and problematic concept that raises many questions.

The statistics are familiar: almost 50% of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years in the classroom.

Cut through the mystique to learn the real drivers of great school leadership Leverage Leadership 2.

The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future.

Most educators intuitively understand the critical relationship between thinking and writing: writing allows us to express what we think, but the very act of writing spurs a process of exploration that changes our thinking and helps us learn.

This book offers new insights into the case study as a tool of educational research and suggests how it can be a prime research strategy for developing educational theory which illuminates policy and enhances practice.

Learn how to increase instructional rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning.

This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular.

The Wiley Handbook of School Choice presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing the wide range of alternatives to traditional public schools available in contemporary US society.

This book calls for a re-thinking of educational provision for Gypsy / Traveller communities.

Understanding what influences the quality of teachers' work across a career is key to building and sustaining their on-going commitment and effectiveness.

Many people in this country grow up dreaming about the college experience, leaving home and starting off in their own world, hoping to obtain the education and skills they need to be successful in life.

Transforming Education: Building Foundations for Systemic Change and Empowered Communities provides an engaging and pragmatic roadmap for transformational change in education systems.

Research on poverty and education shows that the majority of public school students in the United States qualify as poor, but you have the power to change their futures for the better.

The 1988 Education Reform Act meant that schools had to manage themselves in ways which satisfied the world outside the school gates.

Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies.

This book explores the integral role that student affairs professionals play in the success of international students at higher education institutions in the US.

Developing college students leadership capacity has become an essential outcome in higher education over the past decade.

This book is meant to provide a glimpse into differing facets of organizational management that allows for continued success through refinement of skills promoting operational awareness in today's rapidly evolving world of business.

Education reform continues to be a dominating feature of education in the UK and many other countries throughout the world.

The macro-societal events against social injustice that have occurred recently have brought increasing attention to the problems of inequality in society.

According to the most recent report done by The College Board Annual Survey of Colleges, the average rate of tuition at four-year public universities is $19,548, and even more shocking, the average four-year tuition rate for private colleges is $43,921.

Explore the wide range of duties inherent in being an assistant principal and gain strategies to achieve success and happiness in this position, whether for a single year or for a career.

Educational reform is a big business in the United States.

Providing a practical guide to strategic management in the field of special educational needs, this text gives the reader a framework for raising achievement throughout the school.

As more students engage the help of an education consultant when applying for colleges, how can students have an edge over their competition?

This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular.

Success in the Superintendency will help new and aspiring superintendents gain meaningful, practical information from award winning, experienced superintendents.

Originally published in 1992.

A revolution has been taking place in the ranks of higher education.

The International Handbook on Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice creates a first-of-its-kind international forum on conceptualizing the meanings of social justice and leadership, research approaches in studying social justice and combating social injustices, school, university and teacher leadership for social justice, advocacy and advocates for social justice, socio-cultural representations of social injustices, glocal policies, and leadership development as interventions.

Effective inclusion in the classroom shouldn't be a burden; it should be the most rewarding aspect of a teacher's role.

This book answers the question of how soft factors such as corporate cultures and individual and corporate values can be transparently steered.

This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms.

School culture is unarguably central to a school's success or failure.

With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts.

Teaching Media Ethics gives journalism and mass communication instructors the ideas and tools they need to effectively incorporate media ethics into courses across the curriculum.

Effective Police Supervision, 9th ed.

This book explores how Estonia, despite high levels of poverty, has transformed its education system to become Europe's top performer on PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment).

Good teachers are distinguished by their characteristics - passion, integrity, initiative, confidence and more - yet recruitment tends to focus on skills and knowledge.

This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around women's experiences with gender and racial bias, resilience, social justice, and leadership strategies and challenges.

It is essential that we work together to craft powerful parent-teacher partnerships that meet the needs of today's students and schools.

Reaching the Unseen Children provides a powerful and accessible resource for schools working to raise the attainment of all disadvantaged pupils, with particular emphasis on white children from low-income backgrounds.

What kind of people run our schools?

Do your children know how to grow potatoes, where to see a dragon-fly or how to fire a rocket?

Challenging the idea that the corporate 'war' against childhood obesity is normal, necessary, or harmless, this book exposes healthy lifestyles education as a form of mis-education that shapes how students learn about health, corporations, and consumption.

A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.