Taking a close look at the issue of the arts and school reform, this book explores in detail how the incorporation of the arts into the identity of a school can be key to its resilience.
The fourth edition of Education, Equality and Human Rights has been fully updated to reflect the economic, political, social and cultural changes in educational and political policy and practice, as austerity continues and in the light of the EU referendum.
This edited volume demonstrates some of the potential contributions of discourse analytic approaches to the study of education policy and its implementation within particular policy contexts.
2020 PROSE Award Winner, Education Theory Category2019 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceIn Where Teachers Thrive, Susan Moore Johnson outlines a powerful argument about the importance of the school as an organization in nurturing highquality teaching.
Turning Average Instruction into Great Instruction details a clear and concise approach to school improvement, focusing school leaders on the critical factor that has the greatest impact on student achievement-classroom instruction.
Mit dem Ziel, die Vergleichbarkeit der Noten und damit der Abschlüsse zu erhöhen und eine Diskussion über gemeinsame Standards in Schulen anzuregen, wurden in einzelnen Schweizer Gymnasien ‚gemeinsame Prüfungen' eingeführt.
Higher education reforms have been on the agenda of Western European countries for 25 years, trying to deal with self governed professional bureaucracies politically weakened by massification when an emerging common understanding enhanced their role as major actors in knowledge based economies.
This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state.
This authored text critically examines the theory and practice of college internship programs grounded in equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA) to examine issues such as infrastructure, inclusion, and privilege through "e;provocative praxis,"e; a form of provocative inquiry that drives the ethics of pedagogy to envision student success both equitably and sustainably.
Here is a fresh, common-sense take on education reform, not by an educator or administrator or politico, but by a concerned mother and citizen who dares to proclaim that America is NOT offering a quality education to ALL its children.
Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education asks how publicness is being redefined through the restructuring of nominally public school systems.
On Being a Mentor is the definitive guide to the art and science of engaging students and faculty in effective mentoring relationships in all academic disciplines.
Written by experienced leaders in gifted education, this book is a foundational guide for supervisors, administrators, and districts seeking to create culturally responsive and equity-focused gifted policies and programs.
In Paradigm Lost, Spady explores the important changes in culture, instruction, school calendars and school agenda that school leaders must make to prepare students for the next millennium despite the fact that the current system of schooling leads to institutional inertia that counters the very changes we most need to make.
The purpose of this book is to improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by program directors in charge, and the implementation of the evaluation by the evaluator.
Using Cases in Higher Education: A Guide for Faculty and Administrators is an essential resource created for faculty and administrators who utilize case studies to analyze, assess, and respond to the complex and difficult issues facing higher education leaders.
This edited collection challenges the common preoccupation with knowledge acquisition and academic achievement by comparing the aims and cultural beliefs which drive education in different countries throughout the world.
Focusing on the Improving Schools Project in South Wales, Effective Change in Schools explores the process of successful and substantial educational change.
Das Frankreich-Forum, Jahrbuch des Frankreichzentrums der Universität des Saarlandes, informiert über Ergebnisse und Perspektiven der grenzüberschreitenden wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit in den verschiedenen Fakultäten der Hochschule.
Winner of the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division A's Excellence in Research Award A model guide for reconceiving the central office to help educational leaders build equity-aligned, research-based approaches to district reform.
From pressure to "e;teach to the test"e; and the use of quantitative metrics to define education "e;quality,"e; to the rise of "e;school choice"e; and the shift of principals from colleagues to managers, teachers in New York, Mexico City, and Toronto have experienced strikingly similar challenges to their professional autonomy.
Debate on the effects of class on educational attainment is well documented and typically centres on the reproductive nature of class whilst studies of the effect of class on educational aspirations also predict outcomes that see education reinforcing and reproducing a student's class background.
Human Resource Management Study Games offers a variety of short games to help human resource practitioners and students study for human resource-related certifications and learn new aspects of human resource management.
In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role.
"e;Although standards-based reform emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom, the idea has spread across the world, as an approach to systemic reform.
Economic globalization and advanced communication and transportation technologies have greatly increased interconnectivity and integration of China with the rest of the world.
The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented-and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved.
Education partnerships are central to - and often a requirement of - most education reform initiatives promoted by state and local governments, by foundations, and by business funders.
The Essentials of Finance for School Leaders: A Practical Handbook for Problem-Solving and Meeting Challenges is carefully authored to provide supervisory practitioners at the school building level with the vital tools of school finance literacy alongside an understanding of school finance policy that impacts the everyday operation of today's public schools.