Common Sense Questions About School Administration - The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement

Parents have questions for school administrators. This book examines the questions they pose, the answers they elicit, the allies they attract, the adversaries they arouse, and the improvements they prod.

List of contents

Preface: Do Principals Ignore Commonsense Questions?
Chapter 1: Do Questions Always Require Answers?
Chapter 2: Does Analytics Belong in Schools?
Chapter 3: Does For-Profit Ideology Make Sense in Public Education?
Chapter 4: Can School Leaders Get Some Things for Nothing?
Chapter 5: How Are Educational Questions Framed?
Chapter 6: Do Charter Schools Improve Public Education?
Chapter 7: What Is the Secret Behind Accurate Predictions?
Chapter 8: Are Textbooks Political?
Chapter 9: How Can Principals Be Recruited?
Chapter 10: Can Simple Solutions Eliminate Complex Problems?
References
About the Author

About the author

Gerard Giordano is professor at the University of North Florida and has written more than a dozen books about education. A recent series, which was published by Rowman & Littlefield, focused on the case method.

Summary

Parents have questions for school administrators. This book examines the questions they pose, the answers they elicit, the allies they attract, the adversaries they arouse, and the improvements they prod.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Giordano, Giordano Gerard
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2015
• EAN: 9781475812602
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-1260-2
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Administration, EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Schools, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / General