Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform (10th Edition) An authoritative and timely examination of organizational behavior and how leaders can create effective school cultures. Well-established as a standard textbook in the preparation of effective and thoughtful school administrators, Organizational Behavior in Education continues its tradition of offering students of educational administration the [...] Read more »
School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance Reviews
School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn’t automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where [...] Read more »
Voices of Reform Rural Transformation at West Carter Middle School
West Carter Middle School serves fewer than 500 students in the small town of Olive Hill in the rural Appalachian region of Kentucky. Between 2000-2004, the school faced persistent low achievement in math and reading proficiency. A transformation was needed and in 2005 a new principal was hired bringing about an increase in collaboration among [...] Read more »
The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia
The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia The Dark Side of School Reform directly engages some of the more difficult aspects of working as an educator in a public school. This book investigates what it means to teach, lead, and live during times of ongoing and intense change [...] Read more »
Ravitch on Obama charter school accountability Race To The Top 1% public education reform vs
Diane Ravitch on Arne Duncan, 1% Obama charter public education school reform teacher bashing no child left behind race to the top. She did not say the SEGREGATION word but spoke of a two tier education system when charter schools exclude low performing kids poor kids and needy kids with disabilities. Billionaires blame teachers for [...] Read more »
The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, 1905-2005: Preparing Men and Women for Leadership in Scientific Educational Work
The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, 1905-2005: Preparing Men and Women for Leadership in Scientific Educational Work In 1905, as the University of Virginia inaugurated him as its first president, the revered southern educator Edwin Anderson Alderman proposed an education school, despite the thriving existence of normal teachers’ colleges, primarily female, [...] Read more »
The Action Research Guidebook: A Four-Stage Process for Educators and School Teams Reviews
The Action Research Guidebook: A Four-Stage Process for Educators and School Teams Best-selling author Richard Sagor’s updated edition provides steps for effectively implementing research and data. The book is organized around Sagor’s four-stage process and includes hands-on tools. List Price: $ 38.95 Price: Read more »
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education In her critically acclaimed national best seller, Diane Ravitch examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once fiercely defended. Evaluating wildly popular ideas for restructuring schools, including charter schools and testing, she explains why [...] Read more »
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools How can teachers and administrators be prepared to create partnerships with families and communities? Nationwide, rhetoric in favor of parent involvement is high, but the quality of most programs still is low. Part of the problem is that most teacher education, administrative training, and other [...] Read more »
Promising Practices for Family Involvement in Schooling Across the Continents (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues)
Promising Practices for Family Involvement in Schooling Across the Continents (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues) This monograph represents a seminal examination of the relationship of families to the education of their children across the globe. The monograph commences with an overview of issues and models in parent involvement, continues with a series of chapters from [...] Read more »