Bücher von Joseph F. Murphy

This book examines the evolution of schooling from bureaucracy and hierarchy to post-industrial schools, and places teachers¿ leadership on center stage at the same time. That is, it asks teachers to deepen leadership in their classrooms and with other teachers. The book carries education and schooling from formal control to a social influence process and addresses the deeply rooted difficulty of focusing too much energy on content. It reveals the strong power of internal and external context and helps educators implant the idea of the school not as a fixed, immutable home, but as a relatively deep social process. It shows how co-leadership comes alive in schools.Communities of schooling is one of the three most critical developments in education in the last 140 years. When it is linked with the two other fundamental reorientations in schooling - ¿dispersed ownership¿ and ¿constructivist work¿ - it becomes the most powerful force in education since the 1700s. This book shows how communities of schooling replace the earlier pillars of ¿learning as telling,¿ ¿hierarchy of control,¿ and ¿non-democratic influence.¿ The work also explains the meaning and understanding of school work as a social influence process where all school-based educators exert power, but at different levels. The idea of enhancing individual and collective capacity through interdependency, shared work, and collective responsibility is unpacked.

This volume provides an analysis of what we know about turning around "failing" schools in the United States. It starts with an in-depth examination of the barriers that hinder action on turnaround work.The book analyses the reasons why some schools that find themselves in serious academic trouble fail in their efforts to turn themselves around. Beginning with a discussion of what may best be described as "lethal" reasons or the most powerful explanation for failed reform initiatives, which include an absence of attention to student care and support; a near absence of attention to curriculum and instruction; the firing of the wrong people. Covered in this volume are "critical" explanations for failed turnaround efforts such as failure to attend to issues of sustainability, and "significant" explanations for failed turnaround efforts such as the misuse of test data. The volume concludes by examining what can be done to overcome problems that cause failure for turnaround schools and reviewing ideas in the core technology of schooling: curriculum, instruction, and assessment. As well as exploring problems associated with the leadership and management of schools to see where improvement is possible and an analysis of opportunities found in relationships between schools and their external partners such as parents and community members.

This book deals with teaching and leading by looking more closely and more deliberately at students' understanding of schooling. It shows readers how to tap into student insight and adjust thinking to see education and learning through their eyes.

This revealing and balanced portrait of homeschooling today provides a full history of the movement, demographic insights, and extensive research on how homeschooled children fare.

More than 70 humorous and thought-provoking lessons guide improvement-minded educators toward what works, what doesn't, and what matters most in school improvement.

This heartfelt collection of gems from top education researcher and bestselling author Joseph Murphy is rich with concise and instructive lessons. His insightful tips and strategies will help you stay focused on what matters most-the kids-as you navigate the hectic world of high-stakes testing and accountability.

This seminal work on homeless students and our responsibility to them provides far-reaching research, effective intervention programs, and guidelines for teaching homeless students.

Examines how well the educational administration reforms in Uniteed States as recommended by the National Commission in Educational Administration, have been implemented. A valuable book for anyone involved in the educational administration process.

Focusing on an important emerging issue in United States' education - school reform via privatization - this book is designed to meet three major goals: to examine the foundations and the context of the privatization movement; to review the evidence on privatization in areas other than schooling; and to shape decisions about privatization in the school-reform arena.

This book provides research-based literature focused on high school level educational reform-an area not adequately addressed by the current literature on school reform.

This groundbreaking text compiles 20 years of research to prove the link between effective literacy programs and the crucial role administrators play in developing successful literacy instruction.

Provides an in-depth examination of the causes and symptoms of degeneration and a two-part model for preventing educational collapse and crafting an effective turnaround.

This volume examines how the work of principals is being reshaped by transformational reform measures, as well as how the principals themselves are shaping initiatives. The authors explore the challenges and possiblities for principals in restructuring schools, and analyze nine case studies which highlight the changing role of the principal.

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