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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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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 book is a great resource for any teacher or school leader, as its action research of safety practices in the field offers wise guidance for the reader in the domain of school safety.

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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.

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A timely investigation of the history, legislation, and perpetrators of school violence, this guide debunks the myths and misconceptions about this terrible problem of national concern.

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Explore this controversial approach to education, its practical applications, successes, and failures in a straightforward guide that covers every facet of the issue, from for-profit schools to outsourcing of school management to vouchers.

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This book argues that schools must be prepared to engage the community actively, while undertaking self-appraisal and renewal. It outlines the decisions that need to be taken now, if the ideal of lifelong learning is not to be lost.

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After an opening section which summarizes the results of a national parent survey, there are separate chapters that profile home-based (family child care) models, public school-operated models, models operated in partnership between schools and other organizations, and community-based models.

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The book covers school shootings, physical violence, bullying and cyber-bullying, suicide, sexual harassment and violence, teen dating violence, gang violence, intruder violence and violence against teachers and staff.

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The book covers school shootings, physical violence, bullying and cyber-bullying, suicide, sexual harassment and violence, teen dating violence, gang violence, intruder violence and violence against teachers and staff.

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Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the US spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. This work traces the history of reform efforts and concludes that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever-increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement.

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Examines human rights education in India and offers key insights into larger international educational policy discussions. This title provides an in-depth study of the origins and effects of the Institute of Human Rights Education, a non-governmental program that operates in over 4,000 schools in India.

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James Albisetti provides the first comprehensive study in any language of the development of secondary schools for girls in the various German states during the nineteenth century, and of the struggles waged by women after 1865 to gain access to higher education and the liberal professions. Through comparisons with contemporaneous developments in o

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Davidson's contributors are prisoners or former prisoners who finished their schooling in prison, some taking advanced degrees, or social scientists who taught in prisons but are not professional correctional educators.