Improving Student Learning When Budgets Are Tight

Informationen zum Autor Allan Odden is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he also is Co-Director of the Strategic Management of Human Capital (SMHC) in public education and Co-Director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). CPRE is a consortium of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Michigan, Northwestern, Teachers College-Columbia University, and Stanford Universities. He is an international expert on education finance, effective resource allocation and use, resource reallocation, the strategic management of human capital in education, teacher compensation, school-based management, and educational policy development and implementation. He consults regularly with states and districts on these issues. His most recent books include School Finance: A Policy Perspective (McGraw Hill, 2008, 4th edition), with Lawrence O. Picus and How to Create World Class Teacher Compensation (Freeload Press, 2007) with Marc Wallace. Other books include Paying Teachers for What They Know and Do: New and Smarter Compensation Strategies to Improve Schools (Corwin Press, 1997, 2nd Edition, 2002) with Carolyn Kelley; Reallocating Resources: How to Boost Student Achievement Without Spending More (Corwin, 2001) with Sarah Archibald; School Finance: A Policy Perspective (McGraw Hill, 1992, 2nd Edition, 2000, 3rd Edition 2004) co-authored with Lawrence Picus; School-Based Finance (Corwin Press, 1999), edited with Margaret Goertz; Financing Schools for High Performance: Strategies for Improving the Use of Educational Resources (Jossey Bass, 1998) with Carolyn Busch; Educational Leadership for America's Schools (McGraw Hill, 1995); Rethinking School Finance: An Agenda for the 1990s (Jossey-Bass, 1992); Education Policy Implementation (State University of New York Press, 1991); and School Finance and School Improvement: Linkages for the 1980s (Ballinger, 1983). He was a mathematics teacher and curriculum developer in New York City's East Harlem for five years. He received his PhD and MA degrees from Columbia University, a Masters of Divinity from the Union Theological Seminary and his BS in aerospace engineering from Brown University. Klappentext A how-to manual for achieving excellence despite budget cutsThis book offers a comprehensive framework to enhance student achievement in good times and in bad. The author provides a school improvement action plan and then shows how to target resources to implement that plan. More than just a "theory" book, this text describes concrete, specific actions that can be taken immediately. Key strategies include: Using data to support boosting student performance Focusing on effective instruction Setting goals to drive resource allocation priorities Setting priorities for situations that require budget cuts Hiring top teachers and providing ongoing professional development Providing needed technology resources Zusammenfassung This how-to manual for achieving excellence despite budget cuts provides a school improvement action plan and shows how to target resources to implement that plan. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments About the Author 1. A Plan of Action: Turning Around Low-Performing and Enhancing High-Performing Schools A Strategic Approach to Using the Education Dollar A Plan of Action for Dramatically Improving Student Performance Summary 2. The Resource Needs of the Plan of Action Details of the Resource Needs of the Plan of Action Example of a High-Spending District That Could Cut Spending Linking Table 2.1 to School Finance Adequacy Summary 3. Targeting Resources to Student Learning When Budgets Are Tight Understand and Resist the Cost Increase Pressures on Schools An Example of Strategic Resource Reallocation for...

Product details

• Authors: Allan R. Odden, Allan R. R. Odden
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2012
• EAN: 9781452217086
• ISBN: 978-1-4522-1708-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education