Contemporary issues in educational policy and school outcomes

Publication Data

• Title Contemporary issues in educational policy and school outcomes
• Contributors Wayne K. Hoy, Cecil G. Miskel
• Publisher IAP - Information Age Pub. Inc.
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Greenwich, CT
• Language English

Contents

Coalitions in state reading policy issue networks / Tarmara V. Young and Cecil Miskel
The devil made me do it: the genesis of extreme advocacy coalitions in state reading policy / Thomas V. Sheply
Representation in the age of choice: implications for policy and research / Ann Allen
"Values" politics and no child left behind / Robert O. Slater and Mario S. Torres, Jr.
Toward a more refined theory of school effects: a study of the relationship between professional community and mathematic teaching in elementary school / Laura M. Desimone
Academic optimism of schools: a second-order confirmatory factor analysis / Wayne K. Hoy, C. John Tarter, and Anita Woolfolk Hoy
Teacher leadership and instructional improvement: teachers' perspectives / Melidna Mangin
Research into practice: a case study of how success for all builds knowledge for school improvement / Amanda Datnow and Vicki Park
An enduring tension: kindergarten education in an era of accountability / Jennifer Lin Russell.

Topics

• School management and organization :: United States
• Education and state :: United States
• Educational change :: United States

Contemporary issues in educational policy and school outcomes. ISBN 1593114788. Published by IAP - Information Age Pub. Inc. in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.