Product Description: Action Guide to School Improvement

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Product Description: Strategic planning is a familiar concept to educational agencies, and while many have structured their management around it most are disappointed with the results. The authors of this guide offer valuable self-help tools for assessing the efficacy of strategic planning...read more

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Product Description: The authors describe how schools can learn and change themselves as a result. Theu outline a general framework for evaluating educational institutions and focus on one successful programme in particular - the Institutional Development Programme - to show how it is possible for schools and colleges to evaluate and improve the way they work...read more

Product Description: Presenting a discussion on education in the 21st-century, this volume covers a wide range of topics from an international selection of contributors. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The complete adventures of Curious George. All seven of George's adventures packed into one beautiful volume. This collection will be treasured by George's many fans, young and old

Product Description: What goals should be addressed by educational programs? What priorities should be assigned to the different goals? What funds should be allocated to each goal? How can quality services be maintained with declining school enrollments and shrinking revenues? What programs could be cut if necessary? The ebb and flow of the student population, the changing needs of our society and the fluctuation of resources constantly impinge on the education system...read more

Product Description: By the 1960s, high schools had become mass institutions saddled with the expectation of universal education for America's youth. Ironically, with this broadening of clientele and mission came the idea and phenomenon of the dropout...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Now available in paper, this guidebook explores why North American school districts decentralize, how the change takes place, what can go wrong, who gains and who will work against it. The pros and cons of decentralization are discussed, and the author shows how districts go through three stages of school-based management: exploration, trial and commitment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Language:Chinese.EDUCATION 2000: MIXING EDUCATIONAL CHANGE WITH CONSENT (ISSUES IN EDUCATION) (map)

The Education Dilemma: Policy Issues for Developing Countries in the 1980s focuses on the questions on the adequacy of the Western European and North American model of formal schooling exported to developing countries. The selection first offers information on an overview of the policy issues in the 1980s, future of formal education in developing countries, and factors which promote school achievement in developing countries. Discussions focus on the effect of schooling variables on achievement; comparison of the importance of schooling inputs and home background; educational production function and its limitations; and theories of learning and schooling. The text then examines preschool age investment in human capital, policy implications of instructional technology, and the impact of American educational research on developing countries. The publication takes a look at common assumptions about education and employment, education and employment after independence, and the influence of education on migration and fertility. Topics include education and migration, fertility and education, socializing effects of educational institutions, educational and individual entrepreneurship, and education and access to labor market. The manuscript also surveys education, class conflict, and uneven development and investment in education in developing nations. The selection is a valuable reference for educators and researchers interested in the application of the Western European and North American model of formal schooling to developing countries.