Contemporary issues in educational policy and school outcomes

This book is the fifth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. Scholars, both young and established, are invited to publish original analyses, but we especially encourage young scholars to contribute to...

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Other Authors Hoy, Wayne K. (Editor), Miskel, Cecil G. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2006]
SeriesResearch and theory in educational administration.
Subjects
School management and organization > United States.
Education and state > United States.
Educational change > United States.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational strategies and policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116120
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-493-9
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Coalitions in state reading policy issue networks / Tarmara V. Young and Cecil Miskel
  • The devil made me do it: the genesis of extreme advocacy coalitions in state reading policy / Thomas V. Sheply
  • Representation in the age of choice: implications for policy and research / Ann Allen
  • "Values" politics and no child left behind / Robert O. Slater and Mario S. Torres, Jr.
  • Toward a more refined theory of school effects: a study of the relationship between professional community and mathematic teaching in elementary school / Laura M. Desimone
  • Academic optimism of schools: a second-order confirmatory factor analysis / Wayne K. Hoy, C. John Tarter, and Anita Woolfolk Hoy
  • Teacher leadership and instructional improvement: teachers' perspectives / Melidna Mangin
  • Research into practice: a case study of how success for all builds knowledge for school improvement / Amanda Datnow and Vicki Park
  • An enduring tension: kindergarten education in an era of accountability / Jennifer Lin Russell.

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