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Yet, when applied to student life, the literature tends to neglect a frequent phenomena of student life: that students are uprooted from their home countries and resettled in culturally different areas. Part III examines peer socialization among Iranians, Israeli adolescents living on Kibbutzim, and other ethnic and cultural groups.

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School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. This book considers the developing nature of school leadership and the impact of new roles for headteachers inside and outside school and system leadership.

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School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. This book considers the developing nature of school leadership and the impact of new roles for headteachers inside and outside school and system leadership.

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The nuts and bolts of securing the funding for facility construction, a component of the building process usually overlooked in training administrators, are clearly outlined.

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The nuts and bolts of securing the funding for facility construction, a component of the building process usually overlooked in training administrators, are clearly outlined.

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In this important new volume, distinguished legal and public policy scholars address issues that are critical to the successful drafting and implementation of school choice programs, yet are usually overlooked in the choice debate.

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Are public charter schools more effective than traditional public schools This book provides quantitative evidence to answer this question and considers a better way to undertake a policy of school choice.

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Explores the dilemmas many parents face when choosing a school for their children, and the impact of the growing gap between public and private schools on families, schools and the community.

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School choice has risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems. This collection of essays redresses this situation by addressing the moral and normative side of school choice. It considers the relationship of school choice to equality, moral pluralism, institutional ecology, and constitutionality.

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In this book, the authors describe a comprehensive school reform approach that addresses the six areas needing reform and reduces resistance to school reform. Creating a "high-performing" school is an organizational approach to school reform that creates a distinctly different...

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In this book, the authors describe a comprehensive school reform approach that addresses the six areas needing reform and reduces resistance to school reform. Creating a "high-performing" school is an organizational approach to school reform that creates a distinctly different...

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Focusing on private schools, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of schools as social settings, illustrating their potential to create alternative cultures.

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Leading scholars in the fields of history and law analyse the outcomes of school desegregation and conclude that the policies of the past - mandatory reassignment and strict racial quotas - had too few benefits and too many costs to make them viable alternatives for the future.

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The author offers a complete overview of the theoretical basis for school improvement, questioning assumptions about the nature of educational insitiutions. The study focuses in particular on the role of the head or principal in school improvment and seeks to provide up to date treatment of one of the major issues in world education.

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School effectiveness is a subject of growing interest to teachers. This book reviews up-to-date research in school effectiveness and improvement and examines key questions including assessing school effectiveness and examination attainment. Contributors are all researchers in the field.

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Comprehensive study for furthering the debate on how to improve and raise achievement within schools.

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A guide to teaching drama effectively at KS1-3, along with advice for how it can be used for teaching and learning across the entire curriculum. It presents an overview of the way drama links to learning, teaching and the curriculum.

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Argues that there has to be a bigger educational and social justice agenda to school improvement than the managerial approaches typically taken by government policy. The author critiques those school improvement texts, courses, and consultancies, which mostly frame their analyses within the terms of policy, and therefore act to apologise for it.

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Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. This book covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentieth-century nutrition science onwards.

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The reality of school life, from which any theory of school effectiveness must derive, is illustrated by an ethnographic account of the job of the headteacher in developing countries.

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School Business Managers are encountering professionals from the wider community, in addition to the internal staff they are used to managing. This context demands alternative and innovative strategies to develop effective working relationships. This book provides examples of these.

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Adequacy lawsuits have emerged as an alternative strategy in pursuit of improved public education in America. Plaintiffs allege insufficient resources to provide students with the quality of education promised in their state's constitution, hoping the courts will step in and order the state to increase its level of aid.

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This text provides information necessary to interpret test scores in schools. It emphasises that test performance must be interpreted with respect to the limitations of the test itself and how the score corresponds with other information known about the individual test-taker.