School Effectiveness & Improvement Books

New and Published Books

1. Cultivating an Ethical School

   By Robert J. Starratt

   Often the school is left as an institution seemingly ethically neutral, leaving untouched questions about whether the school itself is a site of injustice toward both educators and children. Springing from his well-known Building an Ethical School, Robert J. Starratt now looks more closely at the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Improving Quality in Education

   Dynamic Approaches to School Improvement

   By Bert P.M. Creemers, Leonidas Kyriakides

   This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement efforts. It displays how the dynamic model, which is theoretical and empirically validated, can be used in both traditions. Each chapter integrates evidence...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
3. School Leadership for Authentic Family and Community Partnerships

   Research Perspectives for Transforming Practice

   Edited by Susan Auerbach

   School leaders are increasingly called upon to pursue meaningful partnerships with families and community groups, yet many leaders are unprepared to meet the challenges of partnerships, to cross cultural boundaries, or to be accountable to the community. Alliances are needed among educators,...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
4. Urban Education

   A Model for Leadership and Policy

   Edited by Karen Symms Gallagher, Rodney Goodyear, Dominic Brewer, Robert Rueda

   Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual and institutional); and funding levels. Although urban educators have been addressing these issues for...

   Published September 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Changing Schools

   Alternative Ways to Make a World of Difference

   Edited by Terry Wrigley, Pat Thomson, Robert Lingard

   Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on forteen case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
6. Counseling 21st Century Students for Optimal College and Career Readiness

   A 9th-12th Grade Curriculum

   By Corine Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Costantini

   In order for students to compete in today’s global economy, our schools need to help them develop better cognitive and technological skills. School counselors have an enormous impact on students’ achievement and their success in their post-secondary education, yet initiatives to improve student...

   Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. Beyond the School Gates

   Can Full Service and Extended Schools Overcome Disadvantage?

   By Colleen Cummings, Alan Dyson, Liz Todd

   This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new phenomenon to ask: What do extended or full service schools hope to achieve, and why should services based on...

   Published April 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. Shaping Education Policy

   Power and Process

   Edited by Douglas E. Mitchell, Robert L. Crowson, Dorothy Shipps

   Shaping Education Policy is a comprehensive overview of education politics and policy during the most turbulent and rapidly changing period in American history. Respected scholars review the history of education policy to explain the political powers and processes that shape education today....

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. Profound Improvement

   Building Capacity for a Learning Community, 2nd Edition

   By Coral Mitchell, Larry Sackney

   Series: Contexts of Learning

   The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development. As the authors show, the learning community develops in response to building capacity in three domains: personal, interpersonal and organizational. In the personal domain, educators...

   Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge
10. Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education

    Improving Instructional Practice and Student Learning in Schools

    By Allan R. Odden

    Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to address what has become labeled as "talent and human capital." Grounded in extensive research and examples of leading edge districts, this book shows how the entire human resource system in...

    Published January 9th 2011 by Routledge