Educational administration and organization

Designed for aspiring school leaders, this fully updated fourth edition presents the realities of school finance policy and issues, as well as the tools for formulating and managing school budgets.

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study.

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography.

The perfect primer for anyone interested in becoming a superintendent.

Refocusing School Leadership departs from the more traditional conceptualization of leadership, looking behind the daily routines of human resource leaders to highlight the assumptions and values and beliefs they bring to their work as well as the values and meanings embedded in the various contexts of school life.

This book provides school administrators, school-based mental health professionals, and other educational professionals with the framework and tools needed to establish a comprehensive safe learning environment.

This book examines the unexpected convergence between the higher education systems of India and France.

The most complex social challenges - such as post-secondary access and success for under-represented students, diversification of the workforce, poverty, environmental degradation, and global health - exceed the problem-solving capacity of single organizations or societal sectors.

This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action.

Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to address what has become labeled as "e;talent and human capital.

This book examines the significance of teacher expertise in the drive to improve quality and effectiveness.

This book analyses the development of Catholic schooling in Scotland over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Accessibly written with the needs of trainee teachers and Higher Level Teaching Assistants in mind, this new edition of Wendy Spooner's popular SEN Handbook provides an up-to-the-minute introduction to key issues.

This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education.

Despite the rising interest in school districts, there are relatively few comprehensive resources available for graduate students in educational leadership programs.

The introduction of market forces into higher education is the most crucial issue facing universities and colleges today.

This book explores the value of duoethnography to the study of interdisciplinary practice.

This collection explores critical and foundational theory for trust in educational administration and leadership as it influences a broad range of topics, such as ethics, governance, diversity, policy, management, and power.

Modern Intellectual Property Law combines coverage of each intellectual property right granted for creations of the mind into a thoughtful, unified textbook.

Cutting-edge insights and perspectives from today's leading minds in the field of learning scienceThe discipline of learning science is fast becoming a primary approach for answering one of the most important questions of our time: How do we most effectively educate students to reach their full potential?

This book examines the history of Bosnia and post-conflict Bosnian education in the setting of a society very much still politically divided.

This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the thoughts and conduct of Singaporeans.

Providing practical and theoretical resources on media law and ethics for the United Kingdom and United States of America and referencing other legal jurisdictions such as France, Japan, India, China and Saudi Arabia, Comparative Media Law and Ethics is suitable for upper undergraduate and postgraduate study and for professionals in the media who need to work internationally.

Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers.

What things does every college student need to know?

The Courage to Grow: Leading with Intentionality shows educational leaders how to design and carry out a leadership professional development plan.

iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers.

Did you know that more than 50% of all business is finalized at the dining table?

How to take nothing and make something.

As an applied field, educational administration must be learned through experiencing its myriad tasks and challenges.

Learn Winning Attitudes - Bring Out Your Personal Best.

Human resource management, an essential part of public school administration, is particularly vulnerable to legal interpretation and challenge.

A Parents Guide to Substance Abuse and Addiction provides a necessary education on what the main substances of abuse are, how they are used, how addiction occurs, and the resulting physical, psychological, and legal consequences.

Today, many public schools, especially rural and inner-city areas, are so fraught with violence, so impersonal, and so poorly funded that they drive students away rather than inspire them to learn.

Building a Successful Security Sales organization is more than possible if you have the right information, tools, and work ethic to make it work.

Character Education in America's Blue Ribbon Schools is based upon descriptive, documentary, and qualitative research conducted on the award winning school applications in the United Stated Department of Education's Elementary School Recognition Program, i.

Imagination is something magical that happens to a little girl named Michele.

Moving an archive, historical society, or rare book library may occur only once in the career of a professional curator, archivist or librarian.

In Before Conflict: Preventing Aggressive Behavior, John Byrnes gets to the heart of the concept of aggression prevention.

If youre a student hoping to excel at university, this inexpensive how-to guide is just what you need.

This self-help guide takes students from the challenges of first year through to their successful graduation from university.

This easy-to-read book integrates research and performance-based concepts in order to demystify and debunk the conventional wisdom about education.

The Little Green Money Machine: Kids in Business Around the World offers content, ideas, and exercises to lay the foundation for kids to create and run their own business or fundraiser!

Create Wealth from WithinLearn to use money intentionally with meaning, purpose and direction to create the fulfilling life you desire.

Scott Burrows riveting story of overcoming adversity through sheer determination, will power and goal setting is infectious.

Typically, educational leadership is not considered a moral-ethical undertaking.

In this unique look at leadership, Patterson shares the results of interviews he conducted with 14 highly respected superintendents about the human side of this important job.

Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening.

Marrying theory and practice, this volume will help principals to maximize human potential, promote quality educational outcome, and practice effective leadership skills.