The capacity of a leader to influence the success of an organization - or to fail to achieve that organization's goals - is widely acknowledge by observers of all types.
Developing Cross-Cultural Exchange Projects: A Step-by-Step Guide aims at providing readers with a systematic guide to cross-cultural encounters, either at home or abroad, in a globalizing era.
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.
Through the research examined in the opening chapter of Student Teaching: Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges, the authors determine that it is necessary for elementary teacher candidates to be strengthened in the pedagogical level related to culturally responsive teaching during the undergraduate education process, and graduate as culturally responsive elementary teachers.
The Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) is a Principal Office of the Department of Education (Education) and is tasked with ensuring that all eligible students enrolled in postsecondary educational schools benefit from federal financial assistance for education and training The objectives of chapter 1 are to: describe how FSA and schools use information they collect to manage the federal student aid program, determine the extent to which FSA policies and procedures for managing and protecting this information align with federal requirements, describe the extent to which schools have established policies and procedures for managing student aid information, and determine the extent to which FSA ensures that schools protect this information.
Student Motivation: Perspectives, Improvement Strategies and Challenges opens with a study wherein the authors cross-validate the modified four-scale SALES (when used for the first time with gifted students) in terms of factorial validity and internal consistency reliability.
This handbook was conceived upon a realisation that while education systems in African countries share many commonalities because of a common history, there was paucity of shared literature regarding school leadership in those systems.
Myanmar: Environmental, Political and Social Issues presents educational, historical and social contexts in Myanmar strongly suggesting that, after decades of educational neglect, the time has come for educational reform in schools.
This book was designed for use in courses that focus on the economics of development in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, and the transition countries of East Europe and the former Soviet Union now classified as developing countries.
Collecting and analysing data to monitor and challenge school standards is an increasingly important - and unavoidable - aspect of our education system.
Collecting and analysing data to monitor and challenge school standards is an increasingly important - and unavoidable - aspect of our education system.