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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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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.

(Paperback)

Comprehensive study for furthering the debate on how to improve and raise achievement within schools.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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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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.

(Hardback)

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.

(Paperback, Third Edition)

School districts across the country must ask their voters to approve tax increases for additional school funding. While preparing for these elections is a time-consuming and daunting task, this book provides a step-by-step approach that is comprehensive and strategic.

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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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Human relationships are fundamental to educational and social development and increasing importance is being attached to cooperation and collaboration between schools and the community. This book is rooted in the principle that every child and young person has a fundamental entitlement to equal educational opportunities.

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This provocative and accessible text is addressed to prospective and practicing teachers who believe schools must be fundamentally reformed to meet student needs in an information age.

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This provocative and accessible text is addressed to prospective and practicing teachers who believe schools must be fundamentally reformed to meet student needs in an information age.

(Paperback)

Moe's new book is not an argument for or against vouchers; it is an analysis of public opinion on vouchers that is likely to be very influential in shaping the movement's future.

(Hardback)

This book is a study of how the changing ethos of schooling transformed and redefined what it means to be a teacher. The fundamental reasons why people are drawn to the teaching profession have remained remarkably stable, while the ethos of the schools have changed since the mid -1960s.

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This book is a study of how the changing ethos of schooling transformed and redefined what it means to be a teacher. The fundamental reasons why people are drawn to the teaching profession have remained remarkably stable, while the ethos of the schools have changed since the mid -1960s.

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Not a single industrial nation is entirely happy with its education and worker training programs. But in four European countries - France, Britain, Sweden, and West Germany - educators have joined hands with government, industry, and local communities to face the problem head-on. SchoolWorks examines changes made in these countries.

(Paperback, Fourth Edition)

Whether employers are self-administering their 403(b) plans, or are using a Third Party Administrator (TPA), the in depth information in this book will provide a guide to the regulations, and the tools needed to correctly operate the plan.