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A profile of the school superintendency, this work offers an examination of superintendents' personal characteristics, professional experience, and professional preparation and training; superintendent/school board relations; other issues affecting education and leadership; and the history of the school superintendent in American public education.

Helps you develop collaborative strategies that integrate the knowledge, ideas, expertise, resources, networks, and systems of the nonprofit, private, public, and religious sectors in the transformation of elementary and secondary schools.

A teacher resource based on holistic education for those educators who want to go beyond traditional approaches but do not know how. This book emphasises on the whole person (intellectual, physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and environmental) rather than the intellectual way of knowing.

How does one become a bishop in the Catholic Church? This book provides an historical overview from the earliest times when bishops were elected by the clergy and people of the diocese to the time where they are appointed by the pope. In light of clergy sexual abuse scandal, it argues to resume the role for the laity in the selection of bishops.

"Countries at the Crossroads" is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide. Useful for policymakers, scholars, and the international community, it provides a tool for assessing government performance in the areas of civil liberties, rule of law, anti-corruption and transparency, and accountability and public voice.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of policy, the practice, the affects, and recommendations for solutions to the exclusionary discipline policies of zero tolerance.

Here is a rich ethnographic description of Amish education in 21st Century America that describes how literacy, community, and accountability are key values in the Amish educational system.

Helps teacher educators, pre-service and classroom teachers, and administrators investigate and discuss common issues in classroom management at the secondary level. This book also serves as a supplement to many approaches to teaching classroom management by offering case studies that reflect common issues teachers face in their classrooms.

This small, inexpensive text is an in-depth yet simply stated discussion on the business and structure of integrated marketing communication (IMC). The book focuses exclusively on introductory issues concerning integrated marketing communication as both a communication device and as a profession.

Mobility First considers domestic transportation through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements: global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development and trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. The book proposes solutions that will mitigate the troubling consequences of congestion, spiraling road costs, bad roads, and political inertia.

Governments around the world traditionally distinguish insiders from outsiders. Explaining the innovation why states cede their sovereignty and eradicate or redefine the boundaries of the political community by including foreigners, this book analyzes the development of European citizenship and the evolution of supranational rights.

Offering an introduction to the evolution of communication media, this book describes the history and development of media technology. It develops a taxonomy for media and compares their technological requirements, applications, and other significant elements. It is useful for foundational courses in mass communication and communication history.

This book provides applicable strategies to merge literacy and science instruction allowing teachers the necessary time to build comprehension skills among their students.

Focuses on the personal and social that students bring to school each day, which impacts his/her education. This work aims to teach educators how to identify and protect themselves against the pitfalls found in schools, where underlying philosophical and social differences can bring tensions that can be transmitted from one student to many.

This book identifies the challenges that women in leadership positions face in public schools. It provides examples to illustrate these challenges as well as strategies to increase their success.

The Future of Schools will help changemakers move toward better functioning school systems and districts using reliable, participative, and practical methods.

In What Every Rookie Superintendent Should Know the author lays the foundation with a systematic mindset, a strategic thinking approach, and skills sets, which not only helps the rookie survive, but decreases the learning curve time.

Looks at anti-Americanism, the questioning and dissent at the heart of democracy as well as US propaganda and how US administrations and media often focus on projecting a better image rather than addressing the issues behind why the US image is so poor.

This book looks to the educational ideas of Horace Mann to offer guidance as to how this nation might preserve his original vision of a public school system that will offer a free and equal educational opportunity to all the children of this nation.

Here is an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that common and familiar insect_the cricket. In this edition, students are provided with more than 30 activities on crickets, which will help them learn science content and various skills.

Since the end of the Second World War, Southeast Asia has served as a surrogate space to further American imperial interests, which are economic, political, territorial, and moral in scope. This work contends that the construction of Southeast Asia as a geographic entity has been a crucial component in the creation of the American empire.