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In this text, the author draws on her experience as creator of the ALIS project (A-Level Information System), a quality monitoring and feedback system in use in many parts of the UK. She asks the question "how do we get quality into education" and uses the positive lessons of ALIS to analyze the requirements of an effective, "value-added" monitoring system.

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Each chapter examines the history and structure of the school system in a particular country, and discusses efforts to promote multicultural education. This reference book examines advances in multicultural education in 42 countries from around the world.

Chapters are devoted to individual countries and are arranged alphabetically.

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This text synthesizes the research on the learning style characteristics of five culturally diverse groups: Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans.

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The range of potential consequences of choice have not been thoroughly examined before implementation--a serious problem because educational choice may undermine the basic principles of public education in a democratic society and increase existing inequities in educational opportunities for many students.

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Explores how researchers can engage effectively in networks and carry out research on networks and networking. This book considers of how educational research as a field is developing, identifies new research skills, approaches and practices, and presents an emerging new role: the 'researcher-as-networker'.

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Explores how researchers can engage effectively in networks and carry out research on networks and networking.

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The last 60 years have seen tremendous strides in American high school education. However, the drop out rate is still too high. This book offers one strategy that is suitable for real change: the cultural reform strategy - a fundamental change in the beliefs, attitudes, and expectations of the stakeholders.

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International case studies of leadership in practice provide an overview of the 'lived experience' of new primary school Principals in different contexts. This book brings together the range of those experiences and challenges. It includes interviews with primary school leaders in the early years of leadership in 13 different countries.

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International case studies of leadership in practice provide an overview of the 'lived experience' of new primary school Principals in different contexts. This book brings together the range of those experiences and challenges. It includes interviews with primary school leaders in the early years of leadership in 13 different countries.

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Supported by the Nebraska Council of School Administrators and the U.S. Department of Education, the authors investigated the successful strategies and attitudes of hundreds of individuals nominated as outstanding administrators by state departments of education, professional associations, university professors, and peers.

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This practical and concrete guide shows you how to establish a collaborative approach in program planning, resource-based learning, teaching information process, and evaluation.

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Interactive partnerships generate formal and informal learning for participants that lead to evolving understandings about personal behaviors and organizational climates, and the new purposes yield strategies and structures for educational reform.

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For a variety of reasons market-oriented improvement efforts are becoming increasingly visible on the educational reform landscape. Our objective in this volume is to help the educational community develop a deeper understanding of the privatization movement in general and the major pathways to privatization in particular.

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For a variety of reasons market-oriented improvement efforts are becoming increasingly visible on the educational reform landscape. Our objective in this volume is to help the educational community develop a deeper understanding of the privatization movement in general and the major pathways to privatization in particular.

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Lacanian psychoanalysis presents a challenge to our usual understanding of the subject as formulated by ego psychology, as well as the discursive subject of postmodernism.

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Aims to bring together a collection of Professor Les Bell's work on educational leadership and management. This book explores various areas in the leadership and management in education, including leading and managing professional development, staff and performance management, accountability, and the management of primary schools and strategy.

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She provides detailed information on constraining factors in the medical academic marketplace, the impact of public accountability on medical school faculty, and the essential character of medical schools as research institutions and providers of important services to the larger community.

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This work provides a knowledge base for administrators to plan and manage construction projects, and addresses specific planning tasks including public opinion polling, enrollment projections, financial planning, selecting architects and managing facilities once they are operational.

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Sybouts emphasizes that the human dimension of educational planning is paramount, and that leadership and vision are essential to the effective management of change.

The volume begins with a rationale for improved planning in educational administration.