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What is a rubric and how are they being used in teacher education and evaluation? When did rubrics become ubiquitous in the field of education? What impact do rubrics have on students, teachers, teacher educators, and the educational enterprise? This...

School District Leadership Matters challenges policy makers, administrators, and academics in the field of educational leadership to reassess their traditional approaches to learning, working, and planning. The authors believe that government...

An outcome of international conferences on the professional practice doctorate has been a continuing conversation amongst scholarly practitioners focused on addressing challenges and issues being encountered concerning in the number and variety of...

Adopting a life story approach, this book explores the memories of those who attended Irish secondary schools prior to 1967. It serves to initiate and enhance the practice of remembering secondary school education amongst those who attended secondary...

The purpose of this book is to examine the tensions, gaps, and intersections between the practices of leadership in educational systems, school leadership preparation programs, and the often different worlds of academia and k12 schools. Voices from both...

This third book in International Research on School Leadership, focuses on the changing nature of instructional leadership in the 21st century. Our goal is to examine instructional leadership from multiple educational and international perspectives...

School districts are experiencing increasing economic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, gender and sexuality, cultural diversity across the United States and globally. With increasing diversity and persistent social inequities widening (National Center for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460230305Author GoodloeFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 726g

What is a charter school? Where do they come from? Who promotes them, and why? What are they supposed to do? Are they the silver bullet to the ills plaguing the American public education system? This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview...

Schools and colleges of teacher education are called upon to prepare teachers to use technology. The ability to use technology has been established as a requirement for teacher licensing, certification, and sometimes employment. This book offers a...

This proposal is for a book about pedagogical leadership that draws upon an extensive literature base as well as empirical research by the author in order to examine forms of leadership and management that promote and instill education for learning and...

This book presents cases of schools (Part One) and programs at the district level and beyond (Part Two) in which reform, while driven by high-stakes accountability, became larger and deeper through data-driven dialogue, culture change, organizational...

The primary contribution of this book, however, is not its advocacy of a specific position but rather, its objective analysis of cogent topics. The content prompts us to consider governance in relation to quality education and to ponder alternative...

Research links social movement and education, but almost no related studies address classroom practices. Oaxacan teachers in this ethnography are political and pedagogical pioneers who move between the streets and schools. This book materializes from the...

Harness your community's powerful resources to support achievement! Every school exists within the broader context of its community. By tapping into the wealth of resources that abound beyond campus grounds, principals can weave a tightly knit safety net...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349070435Author Irene FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 296g

'This book reflects a true understanding of the different personalities administrators face and clearly outlines what each leader can do to establish a positive environment for their employees and students. This is one book no administrator should be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996776189Author Rishabh KasarlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Rishabh KasarlaPublisher Rishabh KasarlaWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645891300Author Rita GunningFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Rita GunningPublisher Rita GunningWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874217346Author Tony ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

This book explores the multicultural and non-Western contexts behind the approaches, problems, and issues that arise in research methodologies when used in relation to educational administration and leadership.This volume argues that increasing...

University-based child development laboratory programs have a long and rich history. Since their inception in the mid-1920's they have played a vital role in adding to our expanding knowledge base on child development and early childhood education. In...

Scholars in international comparative education are calling for a new paradigm - a multi-level qualitative analysis of cross-national data. In response, this volume demonstrates the application of a multi-level analysis to qualitative data. Based on an...

This is the fourth volume in a series of studies on advances in educational policy. It is divided into sections which examine: equal opportunities in developing countries; economic gap, racial change and social challenge; and, programme intervention and...

This volume is the seventh in an annual series of works on educational productivity centered on how more can be accomplished in education without consuming additional human, economic, and social resources. In "Evaluation Research for Educational...

The contributors to this volume include scholars and financial analysts. Their data, means of analysis and policy insights should be a useful source for future research and educational improvements. Going beyond mere juxtaposition, the editors' show how...

"Improving Educational Performance: Local and Systematic Reforms", Volume 5 of the series published in 1997, examines improvement of educational performance through state and local reform efforts and through increases in school choice...

The "problem of the 21st century" is rapidly expanding diversity alongside stubbornly persistent status and power inequities by race, ethnicity, gender, class, language, citizenship and region. Extensive technological, economic, political and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530006352Author Wesley RouseFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 644g

Schools are facing increasing numbers of homeless students and school social workers and other related professionals are often at the front line of addressing the negative impact homelessness brings to individual students and the school overall. School...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530006345Author Wesley RouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780840360137Author Lila SwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

While the achievement gap has dominated policy discussions over the past two decades, relatively little attention has been paid to a gap that is even more at odds with American ideals: the opportunity gap. Opportunity and achievement, while inextricably...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578480442Author Paula BaackFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Baack to School PressPublisher Baack to School PressWeight(grams) 404g

This book, written by a former school principal now at the university level, tackles school reform from the perspective of the 21st century. The premise is to understand the current paradigm and discuss what is necessary to rebuild it. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593117146Author Patricia Helene EarlFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age Publishing

The primary contribution of this book, however, is not its advocacy of a specific position but rather, its objective analysis of cogent topics. The content prompts us to consider governance in relation to quality education and to ponder alternative...

"Exploring Educational Administration", the second book in a planned 3 volume work, begins the task of extending the authors' ideas into more applied domains. It provides some introductory accounts of their theory, some extension of the theory...

Today, nations throughout the world lack detailed information about the arrangements families make for the care or education of their pre-school aged children. The present volume addresses this problem by presenting information from Phase 1 of the IEA...

Part of the Improving Schools series. To be published with several other titles in this series in April 2005. For the last few years there has been wave after wave of reform almed at improving the lot of the schools struggling at the bottom of the ladder...