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This book challenges the utility of traditional command-and-control models that are no longer capable of supporting school leaders and describes how an effective educational leader in the Information Age applies dispositional thinking in order to be adaptive, self-aware and responsive to others.

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This book challenges the utility of traditional command-and-control models that are no longer capable of supporting school leaders and describes how an effective educational leader in the Information Age applies dispositional thinking in order to be adaptive, self-aware and responsive to others.

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Created for educators, students, and administrators involved in distance education, this bibliography describes some 300 books in the field, with the author's evaluative comments on the usefulness and audience of each title.

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Makes a link between two key policy drivers in education: personalized learning and distributed leadership. This work puts forward the idea that an effective means of implementing personalizing learning is to adopt distributed approaches to school leadership.

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The components of sound district finance and management, that are increasingly important in an era of scarce financial, material, and human resources, are provided in this book, along with some clear and related recommendations.

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The components of sound district finance and management, that are increasingly important in an era of scarce financial, material, and human resources, are provided in this book, along with some clear and related recommendations.

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Presents information on how to identify relevant demographic trends and create community partnerships to address the educational, cultural, vocational, and recreational needs of students and citizens in multicultural communities. Grounded in ISLLC and NCATE standards, this book offers research-based information, program ideas, and Internet sites.

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The intent of Diverse Students, Diverse Outcomes is not merely to reiterate how to tweak the same things teachers and students have been doing for years but to engage them in exploring what school could be like in the future. Schools must restructure their facilities and teach...

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The intent of Diverse Students, Diverse Outcomes is not merely to reiterate how to tweak the same things teachers and students have been doing for years but to engage them in exploring what school could be like in the future. Schools must restructure their facilities and teach...

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n Do Children Drop Out of School in Kindergarten Gregory Hickman and Randy Heinrich show how high school dropouts in many ways "drop out" of school long before they reach high school. Using a comprehensive systems approach, Hickman and Heinrich argue that our policy makers, e...

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It is commonly agreed that engaging parents with their child's learning is positive with wide reaching benefits. This book articulates why parental engagement is of value and how it can be achieved with positive results. It offers a resource for teachers about the benefits of parental engagement along with methods foster and develop good practice.

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Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. Tracing the historical development of religion within public schools and considering every major Supreme Court case, this book looks at the role that religion ought to play in public schools.

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Brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the evidence on the link between school resources and educational and economic outcomes. In a lively exchange of views, contributors debate whether additional spending can improve the performance of US schools.

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This up-to-date, new and improved edition of Dont Gossip in the Teachers Lounge has 200 tips to help the beginning elementary school teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships.

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This up-to-date, new and improved edition of Dont Gossip in the Teachers Lounge has 200 tips to help the beginning elementary school teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships.

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A visual aid to help adults have "the talk about preventing child sexual abuse " with children.

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This book provides change leaders in education with essential concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics for how to create and sustain whole-system change in their school systems.

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W E B Du Bois was one of the most significant educational thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume collects Du Bois' major writings on education. It demonstrates Du Bois' commitment to racial educational equality and his contributions to educational thought.

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Education is one of the largest sectors of the U.S. economy--yet scholars, educators, policymakers, and parents do not agree about what the money spent on education really buys.

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This book offers both theoretical overviews and practical approaches for educators, academics, education students and parents who are interested in transforming schools. It encourages reinvigorating approaches to learning and teaching that can easily be integrated into both pu...

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and how these factors may affect the political and economic future of nations, regions, and the international community as a whole.

In his two-year study, Duke surveyed 3,000 students enrolled in 40 outstanding secondary schools that are likely to produce leaders in their respective countries in the twenty-first century.

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This examination of the interrelationship of educational and social developments in Germany from 1810 to 1997, concentrates on the post-war German scene, analyzing the post-unification system. It argues that the German educational system has become inadequate and seems to have reached an impasse.

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This examination of the interrelationship of educational and social developments in Germany from 1810 to 1997, concentrates on the post-war German scene, analyzing the post-unification system. It argues that the German educational system has become inadequate and seems to have reached an impasse.