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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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Based on more than 20 years of research data, and filled with real-life examples and specific recommendations, School Communication that Works explains what your patrons really care about (and wish youd talk more about), what they are only somewhat interested in, and what makes them tune you out.

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Rather than a theoretical approach or one based on scientific investigation or a specific model, the author describes events and circumstances that are present and problematic in many schools here and abroad. This book provides readers with the opportunity to anticipate specif...

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Presents specific cases in K-12 school settings that require urgent solutions. This book explains control procedures and offers strategies for resuming normal school function.

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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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This book provides an eye-opening look at the outsized role that seven Presidents played in shaping the policies and practices relative to school desegregation through their bully pulpit.

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This book provides an eye-opening look at the outsized role that seven Presidents played in shaping the policies and practices relative to school desegregation through their bully pulpit.

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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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"Published in partnership with American Association of School Administrators"--T.p.

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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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This book represents a marriage of research and successful practice, presenting a comprehensive planning model for school leaders preparing for and conducting school finance elections. Information presented emphasizes systems and strategies rather than specific campaign tactic...

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This is a book about the troubles of adolescence in an increasingly troubled world, and how schools can help these children grow up to be compassionate and courageous citizens in communities that desperately need them to be so.

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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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Here is a book to serve educators from all types of schools in either pre-service or professional development that is designed as a text for master's and licensure (post-master's) level. It covers all the relevant issues in school law.

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This book examines the contemporary theory and practices of school leadership from a global perspective and includes articles in support of international professional learning for school leaders.

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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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This book will help administrators and school leaders achieve excellence in all areas of the school system. It does not require massive planning or restructuring, just personal commitment and application.

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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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Explores the relations between global wealth and poverty, American and European elites and Third World indigenous societies and the role schools play in the destruction of cultures. This book examines how the dark underside of capitalism, called neoliberalism, is using schools to destroy an American generation.