San Antonio College Library

"Now more than ever, educators are being held accountable by taxpayers, students, parents, government officials and the business community for supportable documentation of educational results. Data management has become everyone's job and everyone's concern. But the egression of data has exposed a raw nerve. The lack of comfort that many educators have in working with data poses a great challenge as school districts make the transition from a data...

"This book provides school administrators and reform activists with a comprehensive framework for creating unique leadership for the schoolhouse that is more community-like, more democratic, and more responsive both to what we know about human nature and what we know about how students learn and develop. This can be accomplished, Sergiovanni shows, by replacing the politics of division - which emphasize contracts and deals, and winning and losing...

In The First Year as Principal, principals share their own stories so that those considering a career in school leadership, those who are already principals, those who care about our schools, and those who make educational policy can better understand what true school leadership requires. These essays offer rich descriptions and insightful analyses of one year in the past and provide important lessons for the future. The book begins with a journal...

American public education is in crisis. Test scores are dropping. Functional illiteracy in English and mathematics is growing. With a work force lacking high-tech skills, American business and industry are losing the battle for the global marketplace, while on the domestic front, the nation is being split in two between the educated "haves" and the uneducated "have-nots." What is news - exciting, inspiring news - is that something can be done about...

Argues for new approaches to finishing schools, more attention to changing classroom routine, and for a better understanding of and respect for, the many races and cultures of our society.

"Deborah Meier has for twenty years led one of the most remarkable public schools in the country, Central Park East (CPE) in East Harlem, where 90 percent of the students graduate high school and 90 percent of those go on to college, this in a city where the average graduation rate is 50 percent. CPE is a school where inner-city kids and teachers experience and act on the "power of their ideas," and it has been called the best school in New York City....