R L Education: 708 books
The Urban School System of the Future
Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of...
by Michael Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
With so much emphasis these days on making students globally competitive and prepared to beat students of other nations on international assessments, and with so much talk about academic rigor and emphasis on rigid accountability measures, we are in danger of losing sight of the most fundamental element...
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Enhancing Social Awareness in the Social Studies Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Understanding and addressing social justice concerns has become a central focus in an increasing number of schools as well as teacher education programs. The activities in this book are grounded in the recognition that personal experience and engagement is essential for meaningful intercultural learning...
Being Fair with Kids
The Effects of Poor Leadership in Rule Making
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Many students are penalized from maximizing their academic potential simply by being born at the wrong time of the year. Not only is there a significant decline in achievement for students born in the second half of the year but they also experience higher rates of failure which negatively impacts...
Leaders Who Dare
Pushing the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Here, the authors focus on educators who dare to lead their schools, districts, universities, and educational organizations to new possibilities. The leadership practices of the individuals featured contribute significantly to craft knowledge and to the discourse on contemporary issues of educational...
Lopsided Schools
Case Method Briefings
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present. Some critics have stirred up educators with threats to reduce their budgets or fire them. Others upset them with...
African American Perspectives on Leadership in Schools
Building a Culture of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This book fills an educational void in the school leadership literature as it relates to historical, theoretical, intellectual and cultural understandings among those who prepare individuals for leadership in schools and for those who practice leadership in schools attended by significant numbers...
by Kerry Roberts, Shellie L. Hanna, Sid T. Womack
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
These qualitative case studies give the prospective superintendent a real-life look at life on the other side of the district CEO’s desk. Two dozen superintendents reflect upon their first challenges and growth opportunities that arose during that all-important first year. They tell it like it is,...
The Savvy Superintendent
Leading Instruction to the Top of the Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
The Savvy Superintendent examines the art of district leadership from the perspective of top practitioners in the field of education. Insights and comments from in-depth interviews with over fifty current and former successful superintendents_including American Association of School Administrators...
The Power of Middle School
Maximizing These Vital Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The middle school years are a maze of academic duties, human growth and self-development, discovering self identity, and increasing social interaction with other people. This maze can be an adventure of achievement and opportunity, or it can be a struggle of difficulty and disappointment. As these...
Expressive Writing
Foundations of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets, and language arts classrooms. Social science research now provides indisputable evidence...
Beyond Tourism
A Practical Guide to Meaningful Educational Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live. Teachers can be central to the process of intercultural development, and must encourage and model an intercultural...
Class Warfare
Focus on "Good" Students Is Ruining Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
With budget cuts looming every year, administrators and union leaders find themselves in a never-ending game of promoting how good their school is and why budget cuts will derail their ongoing success. The vehicle they choose for this ongoing self-promotion is what William Fibkins calls the “dazzle”...
Eight at the Top
A View Inside Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2001
There are over 15,000 superintendents leading school districts across the United States today. Yet, despite the high visibility and prestige of the position, what superintendents actually do, on a day-to-day basis, remains mysterious to the layman and even to those in the profession. This book, authored...