Contemporary issues in educational policy and school outcomes
By: edited by Wayne Hoy and Cecil Miskel.
Contributors: Hoy, Wayne K.; Miskel, Cecil G.
Series: Research and theory in educational administration
Publisher: IAP - Information Age Pub. Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: School management and organization -- United States.; Education and state -- United States.; Educational change -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Coalitions in state reading policy issue networks / Tarmara V. Young and Cecil Miskel; title: The devil made me do it: the genesis of extreme advocacy coalitions in state reading policy / Thomas V. Sheply; title: Representation in the age of choice: implications for policy and research / Ann Allen; title: "Values" politics and no child left behind / Robert O. Slater and Mario S. Torres, Jr.; title: Toward a more refined theory of school effects: a study of the relationship between professional community and mathematic teaching in elementary school / Laura M. Desimone; title: Academic optimism of schools: a second-order confirmatory factor analysis / Wayne K. Hoy, C. John Tarter, and Anita Woolfolk Hoy; title: Teacher leadership and instructional improvement: teachers' perspectives / Melidna Mangin; title: Research into practice: a case study of how success for all builds knowledge for school improvement / Amanda Datnow and Vicki Park; title: An enduring tension: kindergarten education in an era of accountability / Jennifer Lin Russell.