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9781610488242 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, May 18, 2012, cover price $50.00

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9781610488259 | 1 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 18, 2012), cover price $23.00

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Product Description: For decades schools have invested substantial resources in boosting educational outcomes for disadvantaged students, but those investments have not always generated positive outcomes. Although many communities have expanded school choice, for example, families often choose to keep their children in failing schools...read more

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9781421418742 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 31, 2015, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: For decades schools have invested substantial resources in boosting educational outcomes for disadvantaged students, but those investments have not always generated positive outcomes.

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9780874479997, titled "The Achievable Dream:: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools" | College Board, June 19, 2012, cover price $24.99

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Product Description: Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools brings a new and different viewpoint to our educational problems in the United States. The reasons behind the academic decline we have seen over the last several decades, the continued inequity in our schools, and the frustration with inconsistent and inadequate policies, procedures and support will be addressed in this eye-opening book...read more

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9781610485784 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, June 7, 2012, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools brings a new and different viewpoint to our educational problems in the United States.

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9781610485791 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, June 7, 2012, cover price $22.00

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Product Description: This book is for principals who are ready to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to create lasting school improvement. Drawing on 35 years of experience as a teacher and principal, Alan Jones offers a powerful new vision for our troubled school systems a prescription for the development of Strong Instructional Leaders...read more

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9780807753392 | Teachers College Pr, May 25, 2012, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: This book is for principals who are ready to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to create lasting school improvement.

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9780807753385 | Teachers College Pr, May 25, 2012, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This book is for principals who are ready to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to create lasting school improvement.

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Product Description: In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.S. Department of Defense. Why then are so many children suffering what amounts to educational malpractice? Why are they crippled for life with a substandard education and a life-altering vision of themselves as 'incapable'? Betrayed is a passionate, well-researched and frank accounting of how a failing public-education system continues to be forced on teachers and students, despite its nearly complete lack of supporting research or successful student outcomes...read more

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9781610480451 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, December 1, 2010, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.

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Product Description: In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.S. Department of Defense. Why then are so many children suffering what amounts to educational malpractice? Why are they crippled for life with a substandard education and a life-altering vision of themselves as "incapable"? Betrayed is a passionate, well-researched and frank accounting of how a failing public-education system continues to be forced on teachers and students, despite its nearly complete lack of supporting research or successful student outcomes...read more

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9781610480444 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, December 1, 2010, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.

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Product Description: Between Public and Private examines an innovative approach to school district managment that has been adopted by a number of uban disctricts 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 schools, private organizations, and charter schools...read more
By Larry Cuban (foreword by)

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9781934742693 | Harvard Education Pr, October 31, 2010, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Between Public and Private examines an innovative approach to school district managment that has been adopted by a number of uban disctricts 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 schools, private organizations, and charter schools.

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By Kristien Zenkov (editor)

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9780415707930 | Routledge, March 18, 2014, cover price $150.00

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9780415707947 | Routledge, March 19, 2014, cover price $36.95

Breaking Away from the Corporate Model integrates the core values of servant leadership into an effective formula for organizational health and school transformation. Providing strategies for transformation, Rocky Wallace follows a high school principal, John, as he extends his servant leadership model to a regional cohort of principals. The rich discussions and networking that result provides critical support for these school shepherds as they learn to more effectively serve their school communities. This book emphasizes the need to understand how the corporate mentality and impersonal business of school can easily get in the way of the heart of teaching and learning.

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9781607094319 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, September 28, 2009, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: Breaking Away from the Corporate Model integrates the core values of servant leadership into an effective formula for organizational health and school transformation.

Paperback:

9781607094326 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, September 28, 2009, cover price $31.00

Miscellaneous:

9781607094333 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, October 16, 2009, cover price $65.00

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Product Description: Today’s public schools are brimming with students who are not only new to English but who also have no schooling or a large break in their schooling. These students create unique challenges for teachers and administrators. Breaking New Ground  builds on the introduction to SLIFE presented in Meeting the Needs of Students with Limited or Interrupted Schooling (University of Michigan Press, 2009)...read more

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9780472034529 | Univ of Michigan Pr, February 21, 2011, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Today’s public schools are brimming with students who are not only new to English but who also have no schooling or a large break in their schooling.

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Product Description: Principals want all students to bridge the achievement gap. Sometimes they just don't know how to make it happen. This book looks at what successful principals do to close the achievement gap and move their schools from one that needs improvement to one that is succeeding for all students...read more

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9781607097952 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, August 1, 2010, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Principals want all students to bridge the achievement gap.

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Product Description: More than 20% of all children in the United States live in poverty. This is particularly troubling given the associated risks of poverty to children’s social, emotional, and behavioral well-being; risks that have the potential to negatively impact children’s lives in and out of school...read more
By Susan C. Faircloth (editor)

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9781433114106, titled "Building Bridges from High Poverty Communities, to Schools, to Productive Citizenship: A Holistic Approach to Addressing Poverty Through Exceptional Educational Leadership" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 30, 2013, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: More than 20% of all children in the United States live in poverty.

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9781433114090, titled "Building Bridges from High Poverty Communities, to Schools, to Productive Citizenship: A Holistic Approach to Addressing Poverty Through Exceptional Educational Leadership" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 19, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: More than 20% of all children in the United States live in poverty.

By West Staff (editor)

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9780314103987 | Annotated edition (West Group, December 1, 2002), cover price $39.50 | also contains The Focus Model: Systematic School Improvement for All Schools

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By Andrew P. Kelly (editor)

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9781612501222 | Harvard Education Pr, January 31, 2012, cover price $49.95

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9781612501215 | Harvard Education Pr, January 24, 2012, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: A volume in International Research on School Leadership Series Editors Alan R. Shoho and Bruce Barnett, University of Texas at San Antonio and Autumn Tooms, University of Tennessee This book series, International Research on School Leadership focuses on how present-day issues affect the theory and practice of school leadership...read more
By Bruce G. Barnett (editor), Alan R. Shoto (editor) and Autumn K. Tooms (editor)

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9781617350931 | Information Age Pub Inc, December 31, 2010, cover price $85.99 | About this edition: A volume in International Research on School Leadership Series Editors Alan R.

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Product Description: Schools can change, they do change, and they will change, if you have the right tools to initiate these changes. This second edition supplies the reader with updated insights into how to better educate today's youths. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Robert L. Larson (editor)

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9781566766982 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, February 1, 1998, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Schools can change, they do change, and they will change, if you have the right tools to initiate these changes.

At any time, public schools labor under great economic, political, and social pressures that make it difficult to create large-scale, 'whole school' change. But current top-down mandates require that schools close achievement gaps while teaching more problem solving, inquiry, and research skills_with fewer resources. Failure to meet test-based standards can produce consequences such as school closure or staff replacement. With this real-world challenge to education foremost, this book presents pertinent research and instructive case studies of two 'good' high schools. It advocates a proven strategy of small-scale, incremental change_small wins_which increases the likelihood that schools will improve despite a climate of 'do more with less.' Chapters describe the current societal context; the history of major change projects since the 1970s; the organizational and social characteristics of schools and classrooms; human factors that encourage and support improvement; the effects of technology; forces affecting teachers and principals; commonplace components of and vehicles for change; and practical 'levers and footings' for change that can have a high positive payoff.

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9781607095279 | 3 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Education, June 16, 2011), cover price $66.00

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9781607095286 | 3 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Education, June 9, 2011), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: At any time, public schools labor under great economic, political, and social pressures that make it difficult to create large-scale, 'whole school' change.

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This book examines what equity means in a nation where the schools are becoming more diverse. The authors consider how well our educational reform policies, often framed in the language of equity and opportunity, measure up to the challenges of achieving equity in a diverse nation. While there is growing awareness of the increasing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity of the nation, there is little recognition of how these trends affect the schools, particularly in formerly homogeneous communities. At the same time, inequalities in student achievement between different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups persist, even as educational policy has intensified the focus on the achievement gap. These two challenges make definitions of equity and opportunity as urban problems obsolete and call for a critical examination of educational policy and reform from an equity perspective. Central themes include the critical examination of how equity is conceived under the law and in policy, the experiences of minority students in suburban schools, and the impact of current reform policies and strategies for achieving greater educational opportunities for all students. This book is designed for graduate and undergraduate courses in educational policy and policy analysis, for policymakers interested in a critical examination of current reform policies and options, and educational leaders and administrators struggling with the implementation of reform mandates. From a policy perspective, it includes a survey of the evolution of educational policies and reforms since the 1960s and traces the mix of legal and legislative legacies that have informed educational policy and equity. It describes how trends in suburban diversification affect the schools, something that has largely escaped the attention of educational reformers. It provides school-based and non-school-based remedies for achieving equity in diversifying suburban communities and articulates alternatives to the current accountability for performance approach. It offers new and innovative analyses of current approaches to school reform, including an analysis of how accountability tests can create the illusion of reducing the achievement gap and an examination of the paradoxes of federally funded compensatory policies that incorporate market-based strategies. Novel approaches-such as social emotional learning and placed-based college access strategies-are examined through an equity lens.
By Gail L. Sunderman (editor)

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9781623962722 | Information Age Pub Inc, July 31, 2013, cover price $85.99 | About this edition: This book examines what equity means in a nation where the schools are becoming more diverse.

Paperback:

9781623962715 | Information Age Pub Inc, July 31, 2013, cover price $45.99

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Between 2002 and 2016, the federal government, state governments, and school districts undertook unprecedented measures to improve the lowest-performing schools. This book draws on dozens of actual examples to illustrate the wide range of interventions adopted over this time period. Among the initiatives examined in depth are efforts by states to provide technical assistance to schools and districts, offer students educational choices, engage communities in school improvement, take over low-performing schools and districts, create special state-run school districts, and close failing schools. Also discussed are district-initiated measures, including programs to standardize instruction, innovative approaches to raising student achievement, and restructuring of district operations. The book concludes with an assessment of 15 years of turnaround initiatives and recommendations based on lessons learned over this time period.

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9781475823592 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 14, 2016, cover price $64.00

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9781475823608 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 6, 2016, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Between 2002 and 2016, the federal government, state governments, and school districts undertook unprecedented measures to improve the lowest-performing schools.

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Product Description: In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children―and points the way to reversing that failure.Brill’s vivid narrative―filled with unexpected twists and turns―takes us from the Oval Office, where President Obama signs off on an unprecedented plan that will infuriate the teachers’ unions because it offers billions to states that win an education reform “contest”; to boisterous assemblies, where parents join the fight over their children’s schools; to a Fifth Avenue apartment, where billionaires plan a secret fund to promote school reform; to a Colorado high school, where students who seemed destined to fail are instead propelled to college; to state capitols across the country, where school reformers hoping to win Obama’s “contest” push bills that would have been unimaginable a few years ago...read more

Hardcover:

9781451611991 | Simon & Schuster, August 16, 2011, cover price $28.00

Paperback:

9781451612011 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, August 14, 2012), cover price $18.00

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9781455883479 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, August 14, 2012), cover price $19.99
9781455884254 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 14, 2012), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children―and points the way to reversing that failure.

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