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School Governance
Education of America′s school children always has been and always will be a hot-button issue. From what should be taught to how to pay for education to how to keep kids safe in schools, impassioned debates emerge and mushroom, both within the scholarly community and among the general public. This volume in the point/counterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of school governance. Fifteen to twenty chapters explore such varied issues as decentralization, federal roles in standards and assessment, parent involvement, top-down vs. bottom-up decision making, and more. Each chapter opens with an introductory essay by the volume editor, followed by point/counterpoint articles written and signed by invited experts, and concludes with Further Readings and Resources, thus providing readers with views on multiple sides of governance issues and pointing them toward more in-depth resources for further exploration.
Resources in Education
Serves as an index to Eric reports [microform].
Portraits of Teacher Preparation
More often, teacher educators and the programs and institutions they represent are often confronted with an increasingly difficult responsibility of preparing teachers to address issues of diversity, social justice, and equity. Here, Patrick and Karen Jenlink bring to the foreground, current work by teacher educators in universities across the U.S. It specifically focuses on the challenges of: -Standards and accountability -The No Child Left Behind Act -Licensure/certification issues -Increasing diversity -Issues of social justice -Shifting demographics, and -The myriad of social issues that make schools and teaching problematic. The editors incorporate "portrait" as a metaphor and guiding l...
Marching Into a New Millennium
The eighth annual NCPEA Yearbook, Marching Into A New Millennium: Challenges to Educational Leadership speaks to the uncertainty of what awaits both professors and practitioners of educational leadership in 2000 and beyond. The Yearbook is organized into six sections: vision quest for leadership, professional learning in leadership preparation, connecting preparation and practice, meeting challenges of gender and diversity, issues of performance and quality in leadership practice, and creating learning communities and cultures of change.
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers
The current Teacher Education Yearbook focuses on field experience in the preparation of new teachers. Divided into four sections, this comprehensive and essential volume discusses issues including: the interactive effects of cultural diversity and economic backgrounds of school populations and their student teachers; the interactions between student teacher and supervisor; the role of feedback in teacher training; the means to clear communication in cross-cultural settings; and approaches for teaching mathematics and science in elementary classrooms.
Pushing the Edge
"This book contains the proceedings of ACRL's 14th National Conference held in Seattle, WA, March 12-15, 2009. The 3 invited papers and 39 contributed papers explore the latest thinking and research into issues facing academic librarians today. The theme areas of these papers include Changing Environments and Cultures, Changing Political Realities, Converging and Collaborating, Evolving Models of Scholarly Communication, Managing Electronic and Digital Information, Redefining Traditions, and Teaching and Learning." --Book Jacket.
Teacher Learning in Small-Group Settings
The international collection of essays contained in this volume offer a comprehensive look at how small groups are being employed in the field of education today and the purposes for which they are being used. Where teaching is concerned, readers of this volume come to know how teachers experience professional development in book clubs, Critical Friends Groups, and teacher research groups and how action research has been used by teachers in a particular curriculum reform project. Where teacher education is concerned, readers are afforded an insider view of what is happening in various cohorts and other small group configurations throughout the nation and the world, particularly with respect to diversity. Finally, readers catch a glimpse of what is occurring in higher education and how professors learn to be teacher educators, contributing members of the academy, and collaborative colleagues in their efforts to support and enhance student learning along the educational continuum.
A School for Every Child
Public and private school choice options are examined in this work for parents and educators. An introductory chapter examines the concept of school choice. Chapters on different kinds of public and private choices describe educational, financial, and organizational elements of magnet schools, charter schools, public alternative schools, independent private schools, Catholic and Christian schools, and homeschools. A final chapter shows what to look for in choosing a school. Harris teaches at Stephen F. Austin State University, and has experience in the public schools as a teacher and administrator. Lowery is professor and director of PK-12 administrator preparation at the University of Texas-Arlington and a former member of the Texas State Board of Education. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Systemic Change
Connecting students to the future requires changing the educational system. This comprehensive analysis provides the theory and practical ideas schools need to design, implement, and evaluate their own systemic change process.
Rural Education News
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