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School Administration
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. This contributed book uses the voices of academics around the world to explain these dilemmas. Possible solutions are also presented.
US and Cross-National Policies, Practices, and Preparation
As educational policy trends converge in many countries, such as demands for greater accountability, decentralization, and more culturally sensitive practices for an increasingly diverse student body, there is growing interest in cross-national comparisons and generalizations about leadership qualities and practices that result in successful schools. US and Cross-National Policies, Practices and Preparation: Implications for Successful Instructional Leadership, Organizational Learning, and Culturally Responsive Practices fills that need by bringing together triads of scholars from the International Study of Successful School Principals (ISSPP) to make direct comparisons among policies and pr...
Transforming Schools and Schools of Education
Should we change the way we prepare tomorrow's educators? If so, how do we do it? These two questions are the basis for thoughtful study by four well-known educators. Maintaining that change cannot take place in isolation, the authors advocate the simultaneous transformation of elementary, secondary, and higher education. They examine necessary changes in the field and at the university, including broadening the decision-making base in schools, overcoming resistance to change by professors as well as practitioners, using action research as a leadership tool, and shifting the way administrators are trained - with less emphasis on managing and more on leadership skills. The authors point out the need to train teachers for leadership roles. They offer ideas on how to overlap leadership preparation for teachers and administrators.
Us and Cross-National Policies, Practices, and Preparation
This book offers cross-national comparisons and generalizations about leadership qualities and practices that result in successful schools. It compares policies and practices in the U.S. with six other countries and includes theories and case study examples.
Reforming Education
This book, the 14th yearbook of the American Education Finance Association (AEFA), provides a review and appraisal of the "educational perestroika" that has occurred over the past decade, both in the United States and in other developed countries. Rather than assessing the outcomes of a decade of educational reform, it examines the present and future of educational reform. Part 1 contains seven chapters that explore reform initiatives in the United States, while the second part is comprised of four chapters that examine reform initiatives abroad. Part 3 considers the future of school reform. Following the preface, the chapters include: (1) "School Reform in the United States: Putting It into...
Helping At-Risk Students
Helping At-Risk Students provides a comprehensive examination of the cost, quality and effectiveness of US educational programmes for at-risk students. The volume examines federal funding, policies, practices, alternatives and models as well as the impact on the disabled, disadvantaged native American, bilingual, at-risk and gifted at-risk students.
Managing Teacher Appraisal and Performance
The biggest single issue currently facing school managers is how they should appraise their staff and what the implications of the process are. This edited collection brings together the latest thinking on the subject, from both the UK and overseas, and places it directly in the context of school management. Issues discussed include the role of appraisal in school leadership and the role of appraisal in developing teachers. The importance of this combined with the lack of published material on the subject make this book an essential purchase for all headteachers, heads of department, INSET co-ordinators and postgraduate educational management students.
