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Helping Students and Teachers Decode Fake News
Our society faces international challenges from cyber attacks and dissemination of fake news with a goal to destabilize our society. Fake news can be ...
Improving and Applying Research Literacy
Existing research methods textbooks emphasize the mechanics of HOW to conduct research studies. However, many students fail to see WHY it is important...
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Helping Teachers Assess and Improve their Work
Action Research in the Classroom: Helping Teachers Assess and Improve their Work guides teacher-researchers through the process of using action resear...
Principles of Personal Strategic Planning
Creating a Successful Leadership Style gives practical applications supported by real experiences. It presents the actual situations a principal or as...
How Schools can Best Serve all Students
Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teac...
Educational Excellence Tomorrow
Sound district finance is increasingly challenging in an era of scarce resources and increasing pressure on schools and districts to improve. Therefor...
Inviting Students Back to Class
Truancy is a complex issue that continues to plague schools, and many blame truancy problems on students, parents, and socioeconomic factors. However,...
Managing Scarcity, Mandates, and Conflicting Goals for Educational Quality
The concept of “visionary” leadership is defined and applied in this book, as “supervision in schools” requires a level of “SUPER VISION” ...
Six Essential Steps from Recruitment to Retention
Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are on the fast track in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. Th...
A Comparative Review
Drawing on data about unionism in education as well as in other public and private sectors, this literature review focuses on three areas: the causes ...
Enhancing Professionalism and School Quality
Teaching embodies many roles -- in the classroom through teacher-student interactions, and beyond the classroom through teacher-adult interactions. Th...
Lessons from the American Experience
Two American academicians critically examine the American system of administrator training and certification. Suggested are key features that Britain ...
Implications for Reform
This work is organized in three sections. The first part addresses teachers' work culture and its context. The second part covers school organization ...
How Educators Can Be More Professional and Effective
Mentoring with Meaning, and its forthcoming companion, Making Mentoring Work, will help educators to mentor or to be mentored effectively in our schoo...
Implementing Policies to Achieve Equal Opportunity for All
Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education researches the history and trends of educating the populace in the United States. Demographic...
This book will help educators/practitioners become better mentors, expand the dialogue on what makes a good mentor, and it will add new and critical i...
Charter, Public, Private and Religious Schools Come Together
This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policy-makers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well as legal scholars and practi...
Theories and Applications
This book brings together the latest research on the policy-making process and theories of policy studies, and applies them to key policy areas. Polic...
A Report on State Pension Systems and School District Early Retirement Incentives
Nearly a million teachers will reach retirement age in the next 9 to 11 years. This report presents a complete state-by-state overview of the retireme...
The Results of a National Survey
A new, validated survey instrument, SPEAR (Superintendents' Professional Expectations and Advancement Review), asked top executives about their opinio...
Students as School Consumers
Re-frames the issue of school attendance (and truancy) as it poses key questions to students with important implications and answers....
What's Essential in Reaching All Students
This book will highlight certain attributes that a teacher and administrator, must possess to be successful in education today. These qualities have b...
Children need more than just good schooling: they require safe lives, good health, and sufficient resources to live and grow successfully in their com...
State Action on School Reform in the 1980s
Sound school finance is integral to the provision of a quality education. Indeed, a school district's budget is the financial representation of its ed...