What′s missing in education reform in the United States? The answer is leadership; specifically, the ability of school and district leaders to construct and continually nurture a culture of sustained high performance. A true leader needs to have not only a vision of the desired culture, but the skills and information necessary to make that vision a reality. Providing a combined 70 years of classroom and administrative experience, renowned authors James Guthrie and Patrick Schuermann offer a practice-based approach, grounded in research and theory, to achieving and maintaining an atmosphere of success in schools through effective leadership. ..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company. ..

This is a book about life. Well, still not exactly right. It really is a book about MY life.hope that, at least in a small way, this book about my life can influence your life.apologize ahead of time if this is too presumptuous or over zealous a goal. About this Book The book has six major sections, each with a different theme. There sections contain a total of twenty chapters, each an essay about a facet of my life. With one exception,have consciously avoided writing a chronological autobiography.have refrained from such a format for fear that it would be boring and not be of much value. The exception is Chapter sixteen, in whichrecount chronologically the many ..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ..

Present educational finance policies can be construed to be in violation of the equal Protection Clause of the United states Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. Assisted by the National Urban Coalition, the authors of this book have compiled a great deal of information and analysis on school services in the state of Michigan--information which may typify such services throughout the country. Their research was conducted initially to serve as evidence in a suit filed by the Detroit Board of Education which alleged dscrimination in the state's distribution of resources to schools: It may be that the courts will be persuaded to act on the matter, or it may be that ..