Leading Cities In Educational Renewal

Author : Dolf van Veen
Publisher : Garant
ISBN 13 : 9789044111026
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Cities in Educational Renewal written by Dolf van Veen and published by Garant. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This public lecture explores the knowledge base and examines promising practices in the United States and some European countries that have been developed to tackle the problems of vulnerable young people, their families and schools and to improve their outcomes and futures.

Author : Michael Fullan
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807772763
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big-City School Reforms written by Michael Fullan and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big cities have struggled to improve public school systems. This book shows why—and offers a framework for achieving future success. Fullan and Boyle, internationally renowned thinkers on school change, demonstrate that while the educational challenges of big cities may be overwhelming, they are not insurmountable. They draw on ten years’ of research to identify six essential “push” and “pull” actions that enable big school systems to improve student achievement. Leaders must push to challenge the status quo, convey a high sense of urgency, and have the courage needed to intervene. But they need to also pull together to create a commonly-owned strategy, develop professional power, and attend to sustainability. Examining three major cities—New York, Toronto, and London—through the decade of 2002–2012, this book weaves case studies with careful analysis and recommendations to hone in on which policies and strategies work best to raise the bar for all students and reduce the gap for the disadvantaged. Big-City School Reforms offers invaluable advice to those leading the next phase of school reform in cities around the world. This is an eminently practical book that focuses on big problems and big solutions. “This encouraging book draws on the recent experiences of New York, London, and Toronto to identify what it takes to transform big-city school systems. It recognises their complexities without being overawed by them. By concentrating on the factors that seem to matter most, it offers real hope that we can now tackle some of the key issues that have frustrated reform efforts in the past.” —Geoff Whitty, director emeritus, Institute of Education, University of London, UK "Fullan and Boyle present a compelling framework for motivating and sustaining improvement in large urban school districts. The authors’ premise that system leaders must optimally balance push and pull strategies serves as an important lesson to school-level leaders as well.” —Sandra J. Stein, education and leadership consultant “In this important new book, Fullan and Boyle answer the most important question facing the leaders of the world's major cities: what will it take to significantly improve the quality of public education? Through a sophisticated analysis of the policies pursued in New York, Toronto, and London, the authors make it possible for us to see why some cities are making more progress than others. Their clear and compelling insights couldn't be more relevant and timely.” —Pedro A. Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development, Executive Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, New York University Michael Fullan, Order of Canada, is professor emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Alan Boyle is director of Leannta Education Associates where he designs professional learning for education leaders.

Author : Patrick B. Forsyth
Publisher : Corwin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Schools written by Patrick B. Forsyth and published by Corwin. This book was released on 1993-04-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain the tools needed to manage urban schools, as well as advice and insights into nine key problem areas.

Author : Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Imperiled Generation written by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without good schools, none of America's hopes can be fulfilled. Since 1983, school reform has been at the top of the national agenda; however, there is a disturbing gap between rhetoric and results. After travelling to some of the nation's largest cities and interviewing administrators and teachers, Carnegie Foundation representatives determined the following priorities for improving urban schools: (1) affirm that every student can succeed; (2) build an effective governance arrangement for urban schools that ends excessively centralized, bureaucratic control; (3) introduce at every school a comprehensive system of renewal that emphasizes preschool and early education, breaks schools into smaller units, defines curricular goals, ensures flexible scheduling, and improves facilities; and (4) create a network of support beyond the school that empowers parents, and involves community, business and government participation. A new National Urban Schools Program is proposed which would: (1) incrementally increase funding of Head Start so that all eligible children are served by the year 2000; (2) increase the appropriation for federal child nutrition programs; (3) each year increase the funding for Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act by 5 percent; (4) add to the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act a provision enabling poor parents to place their children in afternoon and summer enrichment programs; (5) make summer fellowships available for teachers; (6) make available to school districts low interest loans to improve school facilities; (7) encourage schools to introduce new curriculum or scheduling arrangements; and (8) encourage cooperation between schools and postsecondary institutions. Data are presented in six tables. (BJV)

Author : Serbrenia J. Sims
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607524945
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing School System Change written by Serbrenia J. Sims and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at managing school system change. It covers such topics as: challenges to leading and managing school and school system change; key roles and competencies for administrators; stakeholder theory analysis; understanding school culture change; and more.

Author : Mauricière A. de Govia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Investigation of Leadership Practices that Yield Success in Renewal Schools written by Mauricière A. de Govia and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) set forth the Renewal School initiative as a method of school turnaround that preserves the existing school community; with necessary leadership changes when applicable, and supplied human and operational resources. Educational research has cited that school leadership is the second leading indicator in a school's ability to improve (Louis, Leithwood, Wahlstrom, and Anderson, 2010). Therefore, this study investigated the leadership qualities that yield success in Renewal Schools. The research questions for this study considered the necessary leadership qualities, systems and structures, and professional development required for Renewal School leaders to be successful. The study focused on three questions: 1. What are the leadership qualities that principals and superintendents believe are critical to successfully lead Renewal Schools? 2. How does the systemic and structural organization of the Renewal School model in the New York City Department of Education facilitate principal success? 3. What model(s) of professional development is (are) most effective in nurturing Renewal School leaders towards success? This study identified several key findings, including Renewal School principals need to be strong organizational managers who are resilient and emotionally intelligent. Furthermore, Renewal School leaders require supportive systems and structures that enable effective communication across the organization and streamlined accountability and data constructs for all leaders. Lastly, the study found that Renewal School leaders need professional development that is anchored in instructional leadership, adult learning that facilitates turnaround as unique genre of leadership, and professional learning that teaches how to effectively evaluate leadership and pedagogy.

Author : Lydia R. Otero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534918
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Calle written by Lydia R. Otero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small retail and service shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues, they openly lived and celebrated their culture. To make way for the Pueblo Center’s new buildings, city officials proceeded to displace la calle’s residents and to demolish their ethnically diverse neighborhoods, which, contends Lydia Otero, challenged the spatial and cultural assumptions of postwar modernity, suburbia, and urban planning. Otero examines conflicting claims to urban space, place, and history as advanced by two opposing historic preservationist groups: the La Placita Committee and the Tucson Heritage Foundation. She gives voice to those who lived in, experienced, or remembered this contested area, and analyzes the historical narratives promoted by Anglo American elites in the service of tourism and cultural dominance. La Calle explores the forces behind the mass displacement: an unrelenting desire for order, a local economy increasingly dependent on tourism, and the pivotal power of federal housing policies. To understand how urban renewal resulted in the spatial reconfiguration of downtown Tucson, Otero draws on scholarship from a wide range of disciplines: Chicana/o, ethnic, and cultural studies; urban history, sociology, and anthropology; city planning; and cultural and feminist geography.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Government Finances in ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requirements for Recurring Reports to the Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes reports required of executive branch agencies by the Congress on a recurring basis.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office. Office of Program Analysis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recurring Reports to the Congress written by United States. General Accounting Office. Office of Program Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes reports required of executive branch agencies by the Congress on a recurring basis.