Product Description: Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the economic factors that are in fact driving the institutions that have been described as machines without brakes...read more

Through a national, longitudinal study, this book offers important insights into the attitudes and practices of the nation's 275,000 community college faculty. The book includes chapters on such crucial topics as instruction, satisfaction, professional involvement, and the use of reference groups. The author concludes with practical recommendations for administrators and faculty interested in improving the quality of faculty lives, and faculty practices, at their institutions.

Product Description: The State of the American School Superintendency: A Mid-Decade Study provides the largest and most comprehensive look at the nation's school leaders. It offers a close examination of:·Superintendents' professional experience, preparation, and training·Superintendent/school board relations ·Key issues affecting education and leadership·Superintendent evaluations and contracts·Superintendent tenure·The history of the school superintendent in American public educationThis study, conducted by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) and the AASA Center for System Leadership, is based on a representative sample of school leaders nationwide...read more

Product Description: The State of the American School Superintendency: A Mid-Decade Study provides the largest and most comprehensive look at the nation's school leaders. It offers a close examination of superintendents' professional experience, preparation, and training; superintendent/school board relations; key issues affecting education and leadership; superintendent evaluations and contracts; superintendent tenure; and the history of the school superintendent in American public education...read more

Product Description: This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reflected on their experiences and pedagogical practices as instructors in diverse classrooms...read more

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Product Description: This volume seeks to answer questions such as: how does an awareness of people different from oneself develop in the middle school adolescent, and what is the contribution of foreign language study to the development of culture learning?

Thompson designed an empirical study to gather feedback from African-American parents on numerous issues pertaining to their children's schooling experiences. The results, discussed in this book, can be utilized to improve the schooling experiences of African-American children nationwide.The African-American parents/guardians who participated in this study were biological parents in two-parent homes, single parents, grandparents, foster parents, and stepparents who were rearing school-age children. Some had been deterred from completing their own formal education as a result of peer pressure, temptation outside of school, or stressful circumstances. Others had positive schooling experiences and stable childhoods. Regardless of the differences in their background experiences, the majority of these parents or guardians were single-minded about wanting a better life for their children, believing that a good K-12 education and college education were crucial to their children's advancement. And while most believed resolutely in the hope offered by the public school system, they recognized that schools couldn't do it all.African-American parents and guardians are willing to work with teachers and administrators to ensure that their children receive a quality education. Yet if the historic achievement gap is ever to be eradicated, teachers, administrators, researchers, and policymakers must be more willing to view African-American parents/guardians as assets. African-American parents/guardians must be invited to verbalize their concerns, and those concerns must be taken seriously to effect meaningful and lasting change in the public school system.

Product Description: The number of minority students, many of them not Catholic, who have enrolled in Catholic secondary schools is substantial. Since it is reasonable to assume that the cost of tuition in such schools is considerable for a minority family, the phenomenon suggests that parents in these families believe that their children will obtain a better education in Catholic secondary schools...read more

Product Description: For decades, researchers and policymakers have grappled with the issue of the underachievement of African American students. An age-old problem has been that these students on average lag behind their peers of other racial/ethnic groups in math, science, and reading...read more

Product Description: If educational reform is to succeed, it must attend to the perspectives of students―those most directly affected by schooling but least often consulted about its efficacy. This is the premise of the first book both to feature student perspectives on school and to foreground student voices; middle and high school students are the primary authors of the eight chapters collected in this volume aptly titled In Our Own Words...read more

Product Description: Promising Practices explores how schools and communities across the U.S. are working to achieve the ambitious goals set forth by National Education Goals 2000. National, state, and community leaders, including members of Congress, governors, university presidents, and others, describe programs at work in their states, schools, and communities and lend insight to the problems facing all schools today...read more

Product Description: Stay up to date concerning the remarkable advances in technology, computers and computer-related hardware, as well as significant reductions in costs, in and across America’s schools and educational system.  This book profiles innovative programs and practices that have been implemented within schools across-the-country...read more

Product Description: Strengths of Their Own - Home Schoolers Across America: Academic Achievement, Family Characteristics, and Longitudinal Traits by Brian D. Ray (Paperback - 1999)