Policy, leadership, and student achievement
Subtitle: implications for urban communities
By: edited by C. Kent McGuire, Vivian W. Ikpa.
Contributors: McGuire, C. Kent.; Ikpa, Vivian W.
Series: The achievement gap, research, practice, and policy
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781593119737; 9781593119744
Subjects: Education, Urban -- United States; School improvement programs -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Meeting the challenges of urban communities: funding school districts / C. Kent McGuire; title: Taking over: which school leadership structures generate success in restructured districts? / Mark Hoff; title: A research-based profession is needed to meet the challenge of urban schools / David M. Gates; title: Professional identity formation: socialization and mentoring of pre-service teachers in urban communities / Roselynn U. Obi; title: Caribbean students' adjustment to college: implications for higher education policy / D. Bruce Campbell, Jr.; title: Addressing the needs of Hispanic students in K-16 settings / Jeannette Perez; title: Meeting the academic needs of urban populations: homeless families and students / Kimberly D. Matthews; title: Wordsworth Academy: adapting educational reform to the private alternative school setting / Roger Cadenhead; title: Student achievement and school reform in an urban school district / Vivian Ikpa; title: Education policy and student achievement in urban schools: assessing the P.A.T.H.S. program / Diane Bowen-Lipscomb; title: Supplemental educational services in Pennsylvania: policy perspectives, effects, and challenges / Charlyene C. Pinckney; title: Alternative certification: does it lend itself as a form of viable policy to be included as a factor in teacher preparation and certification? / Debra Johnson; title: Deconstructing special and gifted education policy and practice: a paradigm of ethical leadership in residentially segregated schools and communities / York Williams; title: Reforming urban schools: five years from despair to hope / Donald Anticoli; title: Building capacity and raising awareness: implementing NCLB and its impact on world languages / Oscar Torres, Jr.; title: Motivating students through meaningful report cards / Laurie Zaring; title: Universal pre-kindergarten as a basis of urban educational reform / Greg Kratzer.