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Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma: Advice Based on Experience
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Mears, Carolyn Lunsford, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
September 11... Virginia Tech... Columbine... Hurricane Katrina... Traumatic events with long lasting consequences. Lives are upended, safety is threatened, and all are forced to find a way to adapt to a new normal. Educators in schools where students have experienced trauma face difficult challenges, for how are they to promote academic growth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Educational Environment, Trauma
Leading Schools During Crisis: What School Administrators Must Know
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Pepper, Matthew J.; London, Tim D.; Dishman, Mike L.; Lewis, Jessica L. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2010
School leadership is synonymous with challenge. However, some school leaders face true crises--situations threatening the continuing existence of their school. "Leading Schools During Crisis" analyzes leadership and behaviors of principals in these extraordinary circumstances. A simultaneously scholarly and practice-oriented book,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Effectiveness
Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform
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Bulkley, Katrina E., Ed.; Henig, Jeffrey R., Ed.; Levin, Henry M., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
"Between Public and Private" examines an innovative approach to school district management that has been adopted by a number of urban districts in recent years: a portfolio management model, in which "a central office oversees a portfolio of schools offering diverse organizational and curricular themes, including traditional public…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts, Educational Change
Cases on Critical and Qualitative Perspectives in Online Higher Education
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Orleans, Myron, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
Online education continues to permeate mainstream teaching techniques in higher education settings. Teaching upper-level classes in an online setting is having a major impact on education as a whole and is fundamentally altering global learning. "Cases on Critical and Qualitative Perspectives in Online Higher Education" offers a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Case Studies, Instruction
Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance: What We Can Learn from Program Evaluations
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Fleming, Jacqueline – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
In this important resource, Dr. Fleming (a noted expert in the field of minority retention) draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career. This book analyzes the common factors and the role institutional characteristics play in minority student retention to show what really works in increasing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Minority Group Students, School Holding Power
Schools Make a Difference: Lessons Learned from a 10-Year Study of School Effects.
Teddlie, Charles; Stringfield, Sam – 1993
This book describes the Louisiana School Effectiveness Study (LSES), a decade-long project that identified the characteristics of effective schools. Following the foreword by Larry Cuban, four chapters in part 1 outline the rationale and four-phase design of the LSES. Four chapters in part 2 present quantitative and qualitative findings from LSES…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
High Stakes: Children, Testing, and Failure in American Schools. A Year in the Life of One Rural School and Its Children.
Johnson, Dale D.; Johnson, Bonnie – 2002
This book connects the educational conditions created by high-stakes testing to the students and teachers who are influenced or victimized by the currents driving this movement. The authors left their positions as teacher-educators and taught grades 3 and 4 for 1 year as regular teachers in one of America's most impoverished schools. Redbud…
Descriptors: Accountability, Black Education, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Environment