Download or read book The School Board Effect written by Alexander U. Ikejiaku and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every school board adopts a unique governing style which affects the way the district is managed. This book identifies some of those styles and examines their potential impact on district administration, and ultimately on student achievement. The book also clarifies the role of school boards in unequivocal terms, discusses board-superintendent relations, and offers several recommendations and critical takeaways for education stakeholders. The authors doctoral research which gave rise to this book shows that a school boards governing style has the potential to affect educational outcomes in consequential ways, particularly in urban districts where the greatest impact was observed. A content outline for a set of professional development modules on school board governance is provided in the book, including an in depth review of the roles and responsibilities of school boards, and some case studies on board-superintendent interaction.
Download or read book The School Board Effect written by Alexander U. Ikejiaku, Ph.D. and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every school board adopts a unique governing style which affects the way the district is managed. This book identifies some of those styles and examines their potential impact on district administration, and ultimately on student achievement. The book also clarifies the role of school boards in unequivocal terms, discusses board-superintendent relations, and offers several recommendations and critical takeaways for education stakeholders. The author's doctoral research which gave rise to this book shows that a school board's governing style has the potential to affect educational outcomes in consequential ways, particularly in urban districts where the greatest impact was observed. A content outline for a set of professional development modules on school board governance is provided in the book, including an in depth review of the roles and responsibilities of school boards, and some case studies on board-superintendent interaction.
Download or read book Five Habits of High impact School Boards written by Douglas C. Eadie and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the unique perspective of school board members who lead and serve districts of all sizes, this book provides succinct, straightforward information that school board members and superintendents can put to immediate use. Eadie explores five key behavioral traits of high-impact school boards: - Concentration on governing above all other board work - Development of the board's capacity to govern - Active participation in leading district strategic change - Meticulous attention to keeping the board-superintendent partnership healthy - Active participation in reaching out a wider community Five Habits of High-Impact School Boards provides school board members, superintendents, senior administrators, foundation executives, and graduate students in schools of education, with practical, thoroughly tested guidance for successful governing work and a board-superintendent partnership that is close, productive, and enduring.
Download or read book Besieged written by William G. Howell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. As recent mayoral and state takeovers in such cities as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York make abundantly clear, school boards that do not fulfill the expectations of other political players may be stripped of what few independent powers they still retain. Teachers unions exert growing influence over board decision-making processes. And with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government has aggressively inserted itself into matters of local education governance. B esieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards. A group of highly renowned scholars, relying on both careful case studies and quantitative analyses, examine how school boards fare when they interact with their political superiors, teachers unions, and the public. For the most part, the picture that emerges is sobering: while school boards perform certain administrative functions quite well, the political pressures they face undermine their capacity to institute the wide-ranging school reforms that many voters and local leaders are currently demanding.
Download or read book School Board Operating Style written by Barbara Drake Jahnke and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Education Mayor written by Kenneth K. Wong and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. But years before NCLB was signed, a new movement was already under way by mayors to take control of city schools from school boards and integrate the management of public education with the overall governing of the city. The Education Mayor is a critical look at mayoral control of urban school districts, beginning with Boston's schools in 1992 and examining more than 100 school districts in 40 states. The authors seek to answer four central questions: * What does school governance look like under mayoral leadership? * How does mayoral control affect school and student performance? * What are the key factors for success or failure of integrated governance? * How does mayoral control effect practical changes in schools and classrooms? The results of their examination indicate that, although mayoral control of schools may not be appropriate for every district, it can successfully emphasize accountability across the education system, providing more leverage for each school district to strengthen its educational infrastructure and improve student performance. Based on extensive quantitative data as well as case studies, this analytical study provides a balanced look at America's education reform. As the first multidistrict empirical examination and most comprehensive overall evaluation of mayoral school reform, The Education Mayor is a must-read for academics, policymakers, educational administrators, and civic and political leaders concerned about public education.
Download or read book The American School Board Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Not to Be a Terrible School Board Member written by Richard E. Mayer and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran school board member Richard E. Mayer's humorous approach to administrator-board relations presents negative behavior scenarios and analyses, offers alternatives, and provides win-win solutions.
Download or read book The Future of School Board Governance written by Thomas L. Alsbury and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of School Board Governance combines theoretical debate as well as empirical evidence of the effectiveness and relevancy of local school boards today. Original theorists of competing school board governance theories, current researchers, and researcher/practitioners provided the latest empirical data about the role of school boards as well as applications for practitioners in the field. Such a combination of readings is rarely found in a single volume. This book has a unique and distinguished set of contributors representing a virtual Who's Who among governance researchers. Many of these authors represent the major school governance theorists of the 20th century. While other books generally include only scholars from a single academic field, this list of authors includes some of the top scholars in the fields of political science, educational administration, and sociology. The authors also come from the practitioner field including numerous former school administrators, school board members and state associate directors representing over 200 years of collective experience in K-12 education.
Download or read book Out of Darkness written by Ashley Hope Pérez and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honoree "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people.
Download or read book School Board Training Effects on Student Achievement written by Cherise Evette Revell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue and Purpose In the age of accountability and high stakes testing, school boards cannot simply be a representative body of the community; they must be functional governing bodies with effective trustees that hold the district accountable for student results. Public school board members can positively influence student achievement by acting within their policy and accountability roles and creating a positive district culture of learning. Likewise, providing school board members with quality training opportunities could help board members understand and appreciate the power of their policy and accountability functions and help dissuade them from delving into administrative functions that distract from districts goals. For this reason, pinpointing exactly how board governance training changes behavior and which board actions impact district and school site culture merits additional research and evaluation. Along this vein, the purpose of this study is to discover whether school board actions, specifically completing governance training, have any quantifiable influence on student achievement in their districts. Scope, Limitations, Procedures In order to test this question, I used data from all 1,000 school districts in California for 2003, 2005, and 2007 and a pooled data set of all three years and performed multiple regression analyses to control for a variety of student, social, school site, and district administrative factors. I compiled district data for this study from the following sources: the California Department of Education, EdData, and the California School Boards Association. It is important to note that this study uses district level data, including district API scores and is therefore not measuring the affect of school board training on an individual student's achievement. This is significant because some factors that may be important at the site or individual child level may be somewhat different from those factors found to have the greatest impact on the system/district as a whole. One important limitation was the availability of usable data. To perform a regression analysis, all factors must be held constant, meaning every district must have available data for all of the independent variables chosen. In the four data sets, after controlling for each of the 20 independent variables chosen, only 393, 506, 578 and 342 districts remained for the 2003, 2005, 2007, and pooled data set respectively, notably the 342 districts in the pooled data set actually represent 1029 individual observations. The explanatory variables chosen for this regression model cover aggregate student ethnicity data, income, parent education level, special student needs, teacher and classroom variables, financial and administrative variables, and lastly school board variables on ethnicity, board consistency and board training. Results and Recommendations My results conform to previous literature in that the student and social inputs have the most significant impact on student achievement, followed by school site and teacher inputs coming as a close second. My results also indicate that some district administrative variables have a small but significant impact on district achievement. In regards to my key explanatory variables, individual and team training, I found that there was not a statistically significant relationship between board training and achievement at the district level, but that there is a statistically significant relationship between board consistency and district results. Board consistency with its limitations from the available data has room to become a much more important area of study and possible connection between board training and district achievement, where completing board training results in longevity and stability on the board, which in turn improves district results. My results also indicate a need additional research on district climate and culture, a variable I could not measure but has been shown in previous literature to link board actions to district results. Due to the limitations of the data and need for future research, I detail some recommendations for the California School Boards Association that can help fix current data limitations and also help the association build its research capacity and agenda for the future.
Download or read book The Keywork of School Boards Guidebook written by National School Boards Association and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised in 2020, NSBA's Key Work of School Boards framework identifies the core skills that effective boards need to ensure that all students achieve at high levels through excellence in governance.
Download or read book The Governance Core written by Davis Campbell and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead into the future effectively with the Governance Core approach! Designed to guide educational leadership past difficult and formidable challenges, the governance system outlined in this book will lead to school districts and schools operating at the highest levels of effectiveness. Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan call for school boards, superintendents and school leaders to work cohesively with the same mindset to raise clarity, status, and efficacy. Practical and authentic, the Governance Core is based upon: A governance mindset A shared moral imperative A unified, cohesive governance system A commitment to system-wide coherence A focus on continuous improvement in the district
Download or read book Ohio School Laws 1928 written by Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Influence of Voter Turnout on School Bond and Tax Elections written by Richard Fremont Carter and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ajluni v West Bloomfield School District Board of Education Potter v West Bloomfield School District Board of Education 397 MICH 462 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 56777, 56776, 56932, 56933
