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Reframing Decision Making in Education begins by describing the current status of American schools and concludes with a description of the organizational structure, leadership, and decision making practices necessary to make our schools operate in a manner congruent with those democratic principles we espouse as a country.

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Schools acting alone cannot achieve the greatest possible improvement and transformation under the conditions that currently prevail. This book aims to help senior leaders re-imagine and transform the partnership between their school and its community, and develop the capacity to lead that change.

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Supervising Knowledge Work describes the salient features of a re-imagined supervision process called Knowledge Work Supervision that is designed to transform entire school systems.

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Supervising Knowledge Work describes the salient features of a re-imagined supervision process called Knowledge Work Supervision that is designed to transform entire school systems.

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In spite of all the media attention and national concern about schools, this is the only book that documents real improvements in learning, confidence, and morale, proven through the author's 15 years of research and experience.

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New research about micro-level resource allocation decisions in education. At each level, the findings suggest causes of the practices and implications for improving school effectiveness.

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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 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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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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Have you ever entered a building or room for the first time and felt enhanced--felt your body relax and spirit elevate The effect of human-made environments on learners' brains is not subjective. According to research studies, we all have measurable responses to the design o...

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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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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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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.

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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...