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Walker, Sharron Goldman; Chirichello, Michael – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
After her school wins the coveted United States National Secondary Education Award, a school principal embarks upon an educational odyssey. The principal discovers that the reasons for winning the award are a sham! As her school falls apart, she begins to reflect on the stagnant school organization and the ineffective prescriptions for…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Democracy, School Organization, Principals
Quinn, Randy; Dawson, Linda J. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
This book comes with a promise: after reading it, you will never again think of board work the same as before. "Good Governance is a Choice" is a book about, and for, boards of public and non-profit organizations. Its central focus is on public school boards and the special challenges they face, but the governing model it introduces, Coherent…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Governance, Boards of Education, Nonprofit Organizations
Kettunen, Juha – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of strategic management and quality assurance in higher education. The study presents how the value chain can be described in the strategy and quality maps, which are, respectively graphical representations of the strategic plan and the quality assurance system. The quality map is a new…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Quality Control, Total Quality Management
Stevenson, Cerissa; Cooner, Donna – Planning and Changing, 2011
This article presents the findings from a longitudinal study of pre-service principals during their required internship. The authors investigated interns' perceived acquisition of skills to meet licensure standards using scaled scores on the Colorado Standards Knowledge (CSK) instrument and structured reflective journaling. The findings revealed…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Principals, Academic Standards, Longitudinal Studies
Kose, Brad W. – Education and Urban Society, 2011
Scholars argue or imply that schools should build transformative school visions that promote equity, diversity, and social justice. However, little empirical research has investigated the principal's role in this endeavor or analyzed the practical dimensions of transformative vision statements. This study re-examined relevant data from two…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Principals, Institutional Mission, Best Practices
Young, Robert B. – New Directions for Student Services, 2011
In this chapter, the author begins by describing the organizational virtues that are associated with structural and ethical integrity. Virtues are the focus instead of behaviors, traits, or values, because virtues contain all these components: the stable characteristics of traits, the behaviors that are evidence of traits, and the values that…
Descriptors: Integrity, Ethics, Values, College Administration
Warren, Thomas P. – Journal of School Public Relations, 2011
This article presents a transcript of a recent interview with Jana Frieler, 2010-2011 president of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Ms. Frieler has been in education for 26 years, 16 of those in administration. For the past 6 years, she has been with the Cherry Creek School District, most recently as principal of…
Descriptors: School Administration, Public Relations, Principals, Presidents
Kleijnen, Jan; Dolmans, Diana; Willems, Jos; van Hout, Hans – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore faculty's perceptions of quality management activities (QMA) within their departments, attention being paid to relevant quality aspects and whether quality management contributes to control or improvement of higher education. Furthermore, it examines differences between departments and relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Total Quality Management, Educational Practices
Lafavore, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In schools, like many business organizations, the establishment of mission statements has become common practice. In fact, many high schools are required to establish mission statements as part of an accreditation process. The intent of mission statements is to establish organizational purpose, and theoretically, once established the practice of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Principals, Institutional Mission, Leadership
Perry, Mary – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ1), 2012
Governor Jerry Brown has called for a major overhaul of California's school finance policies. His proposal for a weighted pupil funding system would simplify the rules that govern the distribution of funds to schools and school districts, while targeting a larger share of available resources to the schools and students with the greatest needs. In…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Finance Reform, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student
Pearlstein, Richard B. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Most executives have not heard of human performance technology (HPT), but a recent Google search showed 25 times more Google hits for "lean six sigma" than for "human performance technology." This article describes five factors that make HPT a hard sell: (1) HPT is not part of standard business jargon, (2) organizational executives associate…
Descriptors: Expertise, Problem Solving, Performance Technology, Performance Factors
Uhler, Scott F.; Smith, Gregory T. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
As Internet-based communications and interactions by and between students and school staff become more prevalent, an appreciation of school rules for student behavior is important. Students carry electronic devices, sending and receiving communications inside and outside school, so two key questions exist regarding search and seizure of such…
Descriptors: Students, Handheld Devices, Ownership, Search and Seizure
Pinto, Laura Elizabeth; Portelli, John P.; Rottmann, Cindy; Pashby, Karen; Barrett, Sarah Elizabeth; Mujuwamariya, Donatille – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2012
Critical scholars view schooling as one piece of a larger struggle for democracy and social justice. We investigated 41 school administrators' perceptions about the role and importance of equity, diversity and social justice in new teacher induction in the province of Ontario. Interviews reveal that principals were interested in shaping teacher…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Classroom Techniques, Democracy, Foreign Countries
Slocum, Timothy A.; Spencer, Trina D.; Detrich, Ronnie – Education and Treatment of Children, 2012
The best available evidence is one of the three critical features of evidence-based practice. Best available evidence is often considered to be synonymous with extremely high standards for research methodology. However, this notion may limit the scope and impact of evidence based practice to those educational decisions on which high quality…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research Methodology, Research Utilization, Theory Practice Relationship
Superfine, Benjamin M.; Gottlieb, Jessica J.; Smylie, Mark A. – Educational Policy, 2012
This article examines the recent expansion of the federal role into teacher workforce policy, primarily as embodied by the Race to the Top Fund of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Such recent federal teacher workforce policy reflects an important expansion of the federal role into a policy domain that deserves more attention. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Personnel Policy, Government Role, Labor Force