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This book is a practical handbook for school leaders who want to use data to help understand their students, their staff and their communities, day to day.

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Compensatory education for alienated students at risk of dropping out is a recognized part of the educational landscape. He associates this failure with the program's perception of its students, the trivial curriculum, and the lack of student involvement in planning.

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In Steady and Strong: People Skills for Principals, Russ Thompson describes his experiences as the successful principal of three urban high schools. The challenges he faced ranged from gang activity and racial conflicts, to low expectations and ineffective teaching. Thompson t...

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This handbook is designed to answer two basic questions for educational practitioners. The first is how educators may redesign a school system to perform at optimum levels. The second is what they may do to manage and reward the performance that sustains those very improvements.

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This book is designed to provide beginning administrators with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed during their first year, shortening the initial learning curve and helping them make smooth transitions from teaching to their first administrative positions.

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Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Every Day is purposefully written for practicing and aspiring public and private school administrators who desire on a daily basis to gain relevant skills, specialized knowledge, and overall expertise associated with being a successful school principal.

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Stock School, A Colour Coded Guide To Financial Trading & Investing. Fully colour coded where appropriate. Simple to follow, easy to read, for all levels of experience.

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This unique learning tool lets students read and listen to a popular folktale, analyze the structure through story mapping, and create a board game based on their analysis.

Ever-popular, board games can be an ideal teaching tool.

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Readers of this book will be able to provide effective leadership to transform their school systems in ways that improve student, faculty and staff, and whole-system learning.

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These models, strategies, and research findings are concerned with promoting pluralism.

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Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing - and stubborn - public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the ""portfolio strategy"" for providing urban education - its rationale, implementation, and results.

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This book was written for everyday practitioners aiming to create staffs capable of making their schools sparkle amidst the chaos. Not only does this book describe four essential foundational practices of the foundational leader, it also provides the reader with the specific processes to move each of them from theory to practice.

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A guide for school systems to help them understand why protecting student data privacy is a critical responsibility for the entire organization.

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A guide for school systems to help them understand why protecting student data privacy is a critical responsibility for the entire organization.

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This book argues that a key element of reform has remained in plain view for decades but has gone unmentioned, unmeasured, and unused in reform plans: student engagement.

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This book argues that a key element of reform has remained in plain view for decades but has gone unmentioned, unmeasured, and unused in reform plans: student engagement.

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The author explores the history of outcomes assessment, the role of governmental intervention in outcomes assessment, and the relationship between outcomes assessment and institutional accreditation.

Sims begins by reviewing the political context of assessment programs and policies and by identifying and defining significant terms.

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These essays, covering a wide range of issues pertaining to student records management, will be of interest to both novices and seasoned professionals in a variety of offices at colleges and universities.

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