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Direct linkRabinowitz, Chanina, Ed.; Reichel, Michael, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023
Every year, an average of 20% of schools replace their principals. This book will inform and enhance the process of recruiting new personnel with its insights and practical suggestions for a successful search. This book also offers current thinking and research to help school boards and policy makers retain the professional leaders they have. This…
Descriptors: Principals, Recruitment, Labor Turnover, Educational Policy
Laursen, Sandra; Austin, Ann E. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
Despite decades of effort by federal science funders to increase the numbers of women holding advanced degrees and faculty jobs in science and engineering, they are persistently underrepresented in academic STEM disciplines, especially in positions of seniority, leadership, and prestige. Women filled 47% of all US jobs in 2015, but held only 24%…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Change Strategies, Science Education
The Evolution and Impact of Literacy Campaigns and Programmes, 2000-2014. UIL Research Series: No. 1
Download full textHanemann, Ulrike – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
The paper analyses the status and characteristics of adult literacy campaigns and programmes since 2000. Global trends are analysed in terms of the ten key aspects of the suggested framework for successful literacy campaigns and programmes. Four case studies on major literacy campaigns in Brazil, India, South Africa and Indonesia are used to…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Publicity, Adult Literacy, Global Approach
Bruns, Barbara; Luque, Javier – World Bank, 2015
While the importance of good teaching may be intuitively obvious, only over the past decade has education research begun to quantify the high economic stakes around teacher quality. In a world where the goals of national education systems are being transformed, from a focus on the transmission of facts and memorization to a focus on student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Educational Quality, Educational Change
Hill-Jackson, Valerie, Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
In this book, 12 distinguished scholars provide a hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, historical and theoretical critique of our schools of education, and offer clear recommendations on what must be done to ensure all children can achieve their potential, and contribute to a vibrant, democratic society. This book contains a Foreword by Peter…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Yeh, Stuart S. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
As a consequence of the federal "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) law, there is tremendous pressure on school principals, teachers, school superintendents, district staff, state departments of education and governors to maximize the increase in student achievement that is obtained with every dollar of expenditure. Currently, teachers are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Influences, Cost Effectiveness
Mayo, Andrea – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ1), 2010
The education system in California today is unable to meet the needs of the state's economy or the expectations of its citizens. From school finance to ensuring the quality of teaching, from assessment and accountability to preparing students for college and careers, education policy today in California often works against the best interests of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Change, Accountability, Public Education
Kissinger, Daniel B., Ed.; Miller, Michael T., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
This volume is a critical and objective study of the contemporary college student athlete. Framed around the process of recruitment, transition, and support of student athletes in higher education, the volume is a response to societal pressures to reform college athletics. Driven by publicity and the potential for revenue gains, colleges and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Counseling Services, Higher Education, Publicity
Seligman, Joel – 1978
The history of Harvard Law School, a modern critique, and a proposed new model for American legal education are covered in this book by a Harvard Law graduate. Harvard Law School is called the "high citadel" of American legal education. Its admissions procedures, faculty selection, curriculum, teaching methods, and placement practices…
Descriptors: Accountability, Admission Criteria, College Curriculum, Competitive Selection
