Rapid and controversial, the spread of school choice initiatives across the United States has radically changed political debate about public education. This book explores the complex world of open-enrollment policies, charter schools and voucher plans to reveal how and why school choice has become a major issue.
Twelve essays on marginalization, alienation, and persistent discrimination in English and foreign language departments across the United States as well as strategies for overcoming these obstacles.
Strategies for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
This book offers not only a hands-on training agenda that can be adapted to primary or secondary schools, but also a step-by-step approach to introducing peer mediation to administrators, faculty and staff, students, parents, and the community. The authors have included comprehensive guidelines and forms for everything needed to initiate a peer mediation programme, market it, train participants, and evaluate and expand an existing programme. Many forms are available that can be modified to the specifics of any school and programme. Frequently asked questions are addressed, and many suggestions provided to follow up the training and implementation of the program. This is an excellent guide for teachers, counsellors, administrators, or anyone wanting to introduce students to the benefits of peer mediation
`Practitioner Research in Education should become a millennium "must" for principals and school leaders whose schools are under OfSTED spotlight and for all those practitioners who earnestly aim to undertake higher managment studies whilst "in situ" in their teaching posts.... It is a publication well worth reading by all those who continue to be, justifiably, enthused by school development issues' - Angela Monkman Brushett, OfSTED Inspector `This is a very simple but notable piece of work... They have done a service to education in providing evidence (and there is remarkably little elsewhere) that continuous professional development does pay off in terms of a better education for pupils in schools' - School Leadership and Management Much debate currently concerns the value of education research : how is it perceived by practitioners and students ? How useful and relevant is it ? Who best carries it out ? Can it be free from political influence ? While practitioner research is widely advocated, little is known about its effect on individuals, teams and the institution. In Practitioner Research in Education, the authors explore the effects of teachers' and lecturers' research and its impact on organizational improvement. Whether affecting whole school cultures through teachers' group work, or influencing practice through an individual's research, the accounts in this book show how research can make a difference. They show how improvements in management and leadership arising from practitioner research can contribute to advances in teaching and learning. The book includes material on how to conduct research, the types of research which practitioners can carry out in a school or college, and the implications of research for organizational development. Readers will be able to draw valuable lessons for personal, professional, team or school improvement. Practitioner Research In Education will be useful to students and practitioners of educational management, to those doing research in educational settings, and to school managers who are committed to school improvement.
Educational Management brings together important contributions from leading thinkers in this field. It addresses key questions like - can theory inform management practice in education? and how can leaders help improve classroom practice?'
Masculinities at School presents current critical theory on the creation of masculinities in school environments. Contributors examine masculinities in North American, Australian and British schools, from preschool to graduation.'
`The book has a wide appeal to existing heads, aspiring heads, lecturers and writers about headship. The contributors to this book have lifted the curtain on the realities of headships and, in the process, have added to our understanding of what school leadership is all about these days' - Managing Schools Today Practitioners and trainers ......
Examining the debate over the provision of school health programmes in the US, Jennie Kronenfeld outlines their history and examines contemporary examples of school health care delivery.'
Examining the debate over the provision of school health programmes in the US, Jennie Kronenfeld outlines their history and examines contemporary examples of school health care delivery.'
