Download or read book A Study of Michigan s School Principal Shortage Policy Report written by Philip A. Cusick and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective school leadership, in the form of a dedicated, skilled principal, is a key element in creating and maintaining high quality schools. Improving school leadership is particularly important for poorly performing schools. The passage of the federal "No Child Left Behind" legislation and Michigan's Education YES! School accreditation initiative has raised the stakes for schools and principals across Michigan. Each law calls for the removal of principals if their schools and students fail to meet new standards for adequate yearly progress (AYP). This focus on principals comes at a time when the pool of people ready and willing to serve as principals is shrinking. Teachers represent the vast majority of principal candidates, and fewer Michigan teachers are willing to take on the job. This phenomenon is not limited to Michigan. In a recent national study, sixty percent of superintendents say their district faces a shortage of qualified principal candidates. Another study of teachers who hold principal certification shows that fewer than half are willing to consider the job. To learn more about how this issue is playing out in Michigan, the author talked to superintendents or human relations directors, principals, and one administrative team. Other sources of data included Stephen's study (2002) of 25 small town principals in Michigan. He reports that there are positive steps that many districts have taken in order to fill this important position: (1) Active recruiting and induction; (2) Engaging in continuous training; and (3) Establishing realistic expectations. (Contains 1 table and 1 footnote.).
Download or read book Handbook of School Improvement written by Jo Blase and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how successful principals make a difference in their school’s performance! Based on a ground-breaking study and numerous firsthand accounts, this illuminating book captures unique perspectives from 20 outstanding principals, representing a wide range of urban and rural schools. This resource includes: The nine personal characteristics that help principals lead high-performing schools Practical strategies for balancing both administrative responsibilities and instructional leadership Guidance on using a systems-development approach to support excellence at every level Discussion of the use of research and data for school improvement Tips and suggestions from effective principals, along with recommended resources for further learning
Download or read book Comprehensive Problem Solving and Skill Development for Next Generation Leaders written by Styron, Jr., Ronald A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective leadership and management create significant impacts upon any organization in the modern business realm. To maintain competitiveness and success, those in leadership roles must develop new and dynamic initiatives to solve problems that arise. Comprehensive Problem-Solving and Skill Development for Next-Generation Leaders is a critical reference source for the latest academic research on the implementation of innovative qualities, strategies, and competencies for effective leadership and examines practices for determining solutions to business problems. Highlighting relevant coverage on facilitating organizational success, such as emotional intelligence, technology integration, and active learning, this book is ideally designed for managers, professionals, graduate students, academics, and researchers interested in research-based strategies for obtaining organizational effectiveness.
Download or read book Michigan Education Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elevating Educational Leadership Task Force Report written by Michigan. Elevating Educational Leadership Task Force and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compilation from the Annual Reports of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Michigan written by Michigan. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporal Punishment in U S Public Schools written by Elizabeth T. Gershoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as it is constitutionally permitted according to the U.S. Supreme Court. As a result of school corporal punishment, nearly 200,000 children are paddled in schools each year. Most Americans are unaware of this fact or the physical injuries sustained by countless school children who are hit with objects by school personnel in the name of discipline. Therefore, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools begins by summarizing the legal basis for school corporal punishment and trends in Americans’ attitudes about it. It then presents trends in the use of school corporal punishment in the United States over time to establish its past and current prevalence. It then discusses what is known about the effects of school corporal punishment on children, though with so little research on this topic, much of the relevant literature is focused on parents’ use of corporal punishment with their children. It also provides results from a policy analysis that examines the effect of state-level school corporal punishment bans on trends in juvenile crime. It concludes by discussing potential legal, policy, and advocacy avenues for abolition of school corporal punishment at the state and federal levels as well as summarizing how school corporal punishment is being used and what its potential implications are for thousands of individual students and for the society at large. As school corporal punishment becomes more and more regulated at the state level, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools serves an essential guide for policymakers and advocates across the country as well as for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students.
Download or read book ERS Spectrum written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of the Accounting Profession in Preventing Another Financial Crisis written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing Expectations for the K 12 Teacher Workforce written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers play a critical role in the success of their students, both academically and in regard to long term outcomes such as higher education participation and economic attainment. Expectations for teachers are increasing due to changing learning standards and a rapidly diversifying student population. At the same time, there are perceptions that the teaching workforce may be shifting toward a younger and less experienced demographic. These actual and perceived changes raise important questions about the ways teacher education may need to evolve in order to ensure that educators are able to meet the needs of students and provide them with classroom experiences that will put them on the path to future success. Changing Expectations for the K-12 Teacher Workforce: Policies, Preservice Education, Professional Development, and the Workplace explores the impact of the changing landscape of K-12 education and the potential for expansion of effective models, programs, and practices for teacher education. This report explores factors that contribute to understanding the current teacher workforce, changing expectations for teaching and learning, trends and developments in the teacher labor market, preservice teacher education, and opportunities for learning in the workplace and in-service professional development.
Download or read book The Nongraded Elementary School written by John I. Goodlad and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1987-06-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first publication in 1959, The Nongraded Elementary School has become a classic in school reform literature. This reissue includes a retrospective introduction on what happened to nongraded alternatives in the aftermath of “Sputnik” educational reforms, what is occurring amid the current resurgence of school reform, and what the prospects are for the future. The value of this book lies in its still contemporary theoretical underpinnings for the nongraded school. The book’s treatment of the issue of promotion versus non-promotion is of particular interest in the current debate on school reform.
Download or read book Policies and Practices Relating to Administrative and Supervisory Personnel in Selected Michigan School Systems written by Metropolitan Detroit Bureau of Cooperative School Studies and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education for Victory written by Olga Anna Jones and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Information Or More Paperwork written by Debbi Harris and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires school districts in every state to publish and disseminate annual report cards with information on district performance. Schools are required to report similar information. These report cards must include not only information on overall student achievement, but also on the performance of measurable subgroups, including economically disadvantaged students, special education students, and students from major racial and ethnic groups. (In Michigan, student achievement for this purpose is measured by the Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP.) Michigan state law requires schools and districts to report most of this information for a generation. Along with provisions for several curricular reforms and new school programs, Public Act 25 of 1990 included a statewide requirement for a school report card. Under P.A. 25, school districts in Michigan are required to report annually on student test scores, school accreditation status, retention/dropout rates, and several other types of information for each of their schools and for the district overall. The reporting requirements of NCLB would seem to be superfluous for the state of Michigan, but before judging the value of the NCLB reporting requirements, the question to ask is whether schools and districts complied with existing state law? The authors of this report used data from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) for the 1999-2000 school year to examine the district and school production of performance reports in Michigan, and at the information contained in those reports. Their analysis includes the responses of 143 Michigan school districts and 297 schools, and is weighted to be representative at the state level. These data were collected prior to the 2002 passage of NCLB and provide information about the types of reports that were available to the public before the new reporting requirements were even under serious discussion. The report concludes that most Michigan schools and districts were reporting performance data to parents and the community prior to the report card requirement of NCLB. The data suggests that reporting requirements do make a difference: reporting rates for information not specified by P.A. 25 were much lower than for information included in the legislation. The issue of reporting requirements will soon be eclipsed by the component of NCLB known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). NCLB reporting requirements, then, is more of a report card to the federal government than to parents. The report contains two tables. Table 1 looks at the types of information reported by school districts and schools to the public they serve. Table 2 looks at reporting by a variety of district characteristics: size, urbanicity, degree of poverty and minority enrollment.
Download or read book Education for Victory written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
