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Direct linkWright, Mary C. – SUNY Press, 2008
In surveys, research university faculty often report that they value teaching more than their departments do. This incongruence holds implications for job satisfaction, stress, time spent on teaching, organizational continuity, and even student evaluations. Using an interactionist view of organizations, Mary C. Wright examines the reasons for this…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, College Instruction, Value Judgment
Checkley, Kathy – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
Today's fixation on math and literacy testing makes it tough for social studies teachers to deliver a challenging curriculum. But you can overcome those constraints and prepare students to actively participate in a democratic society with the ideas from this new volume in our "Priorities in Practice" series. Firsthand accounts from talented and…
Descriptors: Activism, Democracy, Program Effectiveness, Social Studies
Mc Iver, Martha Abele; Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth – Educational Research Service, 2008
This resource examines the role of the central office in improving instruction and therefore improving student achievement. Mac Iver and Farley-Ripple provide a comprehensive review of the available research (since the 1970s) on the role of the central office in student achievement. First, they review the research chronologically, and then by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Central Office Administrators, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
Kleinert, Harold L.; Kearns, Jacqui Farmer – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
To support K-12 students with significant disabilities and get an accurate picture of their skills and knowledge, schools need to implement effective alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS). This is the guidebook every team should have--not only to develop successful AA-AAS linked with grade-level content standards,…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Alternative Assessment, Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
Childress, Stacey, Ed.; Elmore, Richard F., Ed.; Grossman, Allen, Ed.; Johnson, Susan Moore, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Managing School Districts for High Performance" brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning organizational design, human…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Based Management, Case Studies, Educational Improvement
Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Vargas, Joel, Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed.; Miller, Marc S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Minding the Gap" argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, High Schools
Hull, Dan M. – CORD Communications, 2004
Hot off the press comes the guide to the next generation of education reform. Dan Hull and some of the nation's leading practitioners and educational leaders show how to remake high schools to improve academic outcomes, prepare students for today's high-skills workplace, and motivate them to learn because they see a pathway to their future.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Tech Prep, Career Education, Employment Potential
