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This book is the result of a project Jointly conducted by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in France and the Improving the Efficiency of Education Systems (IEES) project in America. It involves a synthesis of the lessons learned from recent experience and research in collecting, analysing and using- quantitative information in decision-making at various levels of the educational system in the context of developing countnes. Four national case studies have been included...

How often do your primary school pupils have the opportunity to engage in open-ended, sustained pieces of work that offer them choice and control? Do you find that the curriculum restricts openings to provide your pupils with real challenge? Is your school grappling with finding effective ways in which to elicit authentic pupil voice? Children as Researchers in Primary Schools is an innovative and unique resource for practitioners supporting children to become 'real world' researchers in the...

Der Bilinguale Unterricht in Deutschland entwickelt sich derzeit zu einem Regelangebot. Bei dieser Entwicklung wird jedoch die sachfachliche Kompetenz in Theorie, Forschung und Praxis noch nicht im wunschenswerten Masse berucksichtigt. In der europaischen Diskussion um Content and Language Integrated Learning interessiert vor allem die fremdsprachliche Kompetenz. Die Rolle der schulischen Erstsprache sowie der Aufbau fachlicher Literalitat in zwei Sprachen werden kaum berucksichtigt. Dieser Band...

The inside story of the most-watched attempt to transform a troubled high school Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors tells the real-life story of Locke High School. Locke High originally known for its excellence became one of the toughest, most dysfunctional schools in the nation. Then in 2007 teachers voted to bring in an upstart charter school organization called Green Dot to try and restore the Locke Saints' past glory. It was a brave and desperate move. Working in secrecy, the school principal,...

This book is intended to help you enhance your common sense (your intuitive decision making skills) as well as your critical thinking skills (your rational planning and decision-making skills). A big claim, to be certain, but undoubtedly a valid one. As you are aware, your common sense, and with it your ability to make many decisions almost intuitively with minimum thought, is vastly better today than it was when you were a teenager. Experience and learning that translated itself into better jud...

Children enter the world curiously hard-wired for creativity and imagination. After a few short years of school, something drastically changes for them. Why? There is an unmistakable and deliberate attempt to control the learning of young people who find themselves sitting in our schools. The industrial model of schooling has taken its toll and victims without remorse. It programs curious young minds to become helpless, dependent, and compliant. It is manipulation and malpractice, but few seem t...

Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of education reform and innovation. Carefully attentive to both theory and practice, this is the definitive source for learning about education reform and innovation, whil...

`This book adds extremely relevant knowledge and skills for innovative reformers and for more traditional leaders alike. It provides a solid set of interesting and shrewd suggestions that can be used immediately by practising principals' - From the Foreword by Kent D Peterson, Professor, Department of Educational Administration, University of Wisconsin, Madison Despite the administrative leadership training that most principals receive in university courses, their most useful learning doesn't...

This work shows the latest leadership theories, research and techniques as successfully practised in schools. It prepares the reader to improve eductation by focusing on the proven qualities of successful leadership. Based on careful observation of successful experiences in different areas, this work should provide a resource for current practitioners and students aspiring to contemporary leadership positions.

An update to Financial and Managerial Accounting for School Administrators: Superintendents, School Business Administrators and Principals, this book and CD includes current best practices, GASB pronouncements, and web-based applications. It also provides school administrators with important accounting background, technique, and applications in the school environment and demonstrates the overall binding effect accounting has on all of the tasks and functions performed by school administrators. K...