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The contributions in this book discuss a wide range of proposals, including greater school choice, charter schools, promoting contact with the business community, public-private partnerships, and more.

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How can education be restructured to align more closely with the complex ways in which students actually create meaning and learn

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This book presents a common-sense approach for making district and school retention plans that will retain the most effective teachers needed in todays and tomorrows schools. The strategies outlined in the book create help to create schools as high-quality workplaces that will retain teachers.

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This book presents a common-sense approach for developing district and school retention plans that will retain the most effective teachers needed in todays and tomorrows schools. The strategies outlined in the book help to create schools as high-quality workplaces that will retain teachers.

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Offers a radical critique of prevailing models of leadership in education, particularly models of school leadership, notably the British view of headship. This book presents an alternative model of leadership. It focuses on leadership attitudes, values and personal qualities (the elusive and intangible elements of leadership).

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Veteran teacher Mickey Kolis invites you to reflect on how you do learning in your classroom. From making assignments meaningful to students to assessing the results, Rethinking Teaching explores key ideas for creating environments where students want to learn.

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This new development helps practitioners build thriving learning communities through: (1) recognition and validation of each staff member's unique points of view, (2) natural conflict that accompanies the assorted viewpoints, (3) healthy teamwork, and (4) effective systems. Sp...

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The evolution of student activism in sub-Saharan Africa is crucial to understanding the process of democratic struggle and change in Africa. Focusing on the period of democratic transitions in the 1990s, this title discusses the involvement of student activism in democratic struggles across contemporary Africa.

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For more than a decade, school choice has been a flashpoint in debates about our nation's schooling. Perhaps the most commonly advanced argument for school choice is the notion that markets will force public schools to improve, particularly in those urban areas where improvement has proved so elusive.

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Rural School Leadership: Lesson's from Alaska provides practical school improvement strategies for leaders in rural schools.

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Examines the challenges of scaling up from a multidisciplinary perspective. This work explores the methods for estimating the effects of innovations in larger, more diverse settings and provides theories and models to guide the design of innovations most likely to remain viable at large scales.

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Explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. This book includes reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, and guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a range of settings.

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A discussion of many of the dilemmas and problems facing school administrators. Topics include: conflicting beliefs regarding the fundamental purpose of school, administering racial and ethnic differences, and monetary incentives to reform teacher compensation.

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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 in chapters that begin with a look at the problem of aging schools and follow through the planning and ...

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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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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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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.