Current Issues in School Leadership

by Larry W. Hughes (Editor)

Overview

Current Issues in School Leadership examines controversies about, and affecting, school practices. Focusing on two essential questions--what is important to today's school leaders? and what is interfering with schooling processes?--it includes chapters by a broad range of authors, with expertise on their specific topic. The text is organized in three sections: Social and Political Issues; Curriculum and Learning Issues; and Organization and Management Issues. The goal of this text--designed for school leadership, educational administration, and foundations of education courses--is to challenge readers to think carefully and critically about each of the issues presented, leading to positive action and leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138460171
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/26/2017
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES; Chapter 1 Politics, Pressure Groups, and School Change, Larry W. Hughes; Chapter 2 Violence and Threats of Violence, Ronnie Casella; Chapter 3 Educational Warriors for Social Justice, Jaime Romo, Michael Roseman; Chapter 4 Comfortably Numb? Rethinking Social Studies for Social Justice, Cameron S. White, Tony L. Talbert; Chapter 5 Religious Controversy, Suzanne Rosenblith; Chapter 6 Censorship: Who Controls School Curriculum and Teaching Materials?, Richard Fossey; Part 2 CURRICULUM AND LEARNING ISSUES; Chapter 7 Class Size and Learning, C.M. Achilles; Chapter 8 Evaluation of Schools: An Expanded View, Patricia E. Holland, Joy C. Phillips; Chapter 9 Evaluating Students: Nightmares and Dreams, Richard J. Meyer; Chapter 10 The Challenges of Diversity: Moving Toward Cultural Proficiency, Reyes Quezada, Keith Osajima; Chapter 11 Navigating Special Education Tensions and Controversies, Judy A. Mantle; Chapter 12 What's at Stake for High-Quality Art Education in a High-Stakes Testing Era? The Importance of Escaping a View-Master® Conception of Education, Sara Wilson McKay; Chapter 13 Technology in the Classroom: Thinking Beyond the Machines, Melissa E. Pierson; Part 3 ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES; Chapter 14 Leading the Teacher Work Group, William D. Greenfield Jr.; Chapter 15 Principal Behaviors and School Outcomes: A Look Inside Urban Schools, Joseph J. Flessa; Chapter 16 Culture, Climate, and School Outcomes, Angus J. MacNeil; Chapter 17 Professional Development and Education Improvement?, C.M. Achilles, Christopher H. Tienken; Chapter 18 School Finance: The Russian Novel, Augustina Reyes, Gloria M. Rodriguez; Chapter 19 Charter Schools, Liane Brouillette;

Editorial Reviews

"Current Issues in School Leadership covers the 'ABCs' from art education, to school budgets, to censorship....This book certainly does inform us...but, as such an update should, also requires us to react, to interpret its commentaries from our vantage point of school principal, teacher leader, or interested citizen."
—Robert K. Wimpleberg
From the Foreword

From the Publisher