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Excellence, Equity, and Efficiency: How Principals and Policymakers Can Survive the Triangle of Tension(English)

Excellence, Equity, and Efficiency: How Principals and Policymakers Can Survive the Triangle of Tension(English)

          
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Public education in America has undergone a vast series of changes during the last four decades. The majority of these changes are driven by policy—the most recent, No Child Left Behind—but regardless of laws passed, principals and school leaders across the country are scrambling to discover ways to unleash the next breakthrough in public education—success for all. In many parts of the country, that success must come on dwindling resources. Over the years much has been written about excellence, equity, and efficiency. The ongoing struggle for administrators and educational leaders is to discover how these apparent conflicting values can not only be survived but also managed to produce unprecedented results in school improvement. Excellence, Equity, and Efficiency presents a "Quality School Improvement" (QSI) framework for overcoming the conflict that exists between these values and provides recommendations for principals and policymakers to meet the demands for accountability and continuous improvement based upon that framework. Researched and written by a fulltime practicing principal in the field, this book: documents hundreds of actual events and struggles that principals have faced while attempting to manage the demands these values present, includes a story of the author's school and district that is successfully rejecting both the notion of social promotion and retention in their attempt to reconcile excellence, equity, and efficiency through the concept of priority leadership.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1 Values That Drive Change: The Triangle of Tension
Part 3 Tension Generators: Excellence, Equity, and Efficiency
Part 4 The Triangle of Tension
Part 5 The Tension Between Excellence and Equity
Part 6 The Tension Between Efficiency and Equity
Part 7 The Tension Between Efficiency and Excellence
Part 8 How the Triangle of Tension Functions
Part 9 Conclusion
Part 10 Discussion Points
Chapter 11 2 The Pursuit of Excellence
Part 12 Historical Excellence
Part 13 Demonstrations of Excellence
Part 14 Conclusion
Part 15 Discussion Points
Chapter 16 3 The Promise of Equity
Part 17 Historical Equity
Part 18 The Pressure of Equity
Part 19 Equal Opportunity through the Meeting of Needs
Part 20 Conclusion
Part 21 Discussion Points
Part 22 4 The Power of Efficiency
Part 23 Efficiency Denied
Part 24 Education Costs Over Time
Part 25 The Effect of Increased Spending on Achievement
Part 26 How Districts Spend Their Money
Part 27 How Principals View Efficiency
Part 28 Strategies for Improving Financial Efficiency
Part 29 Conclusion
Part 30 Discussion Points
Chapter 31 5 Surviving the Triangle of Tension
Part 32 A Culture of Accountability
Part 33 The Birth of Standardized Testing
Part 34 The Importance of Accountability
Part 35 How Principals Successfully Navigate the Triangle
Part 36 Excellence: Standards-Based Instruction
Part 37 Innovations Related to Excellence
Part 38 Providing Equity
Part 39 Equal Treatment
Part 40 Equal Opportunity to Achieve Success
Part 41 Efficiency: Positive Effects
Part 42 Increased Support Through Efficiency
Part 43 Conclusion
Part 44 Discussion Points
Chapter 45 6 Quality School Improvement Framework
Part 46 Renewal, Reform, and Restructuring
Part 47 True Equity
Part 48 Quality School Improvement
Part 49 Managing the Triangle of Tension
Part 50 Analyzing Quality According to the School-Improvement Framework
Part 51 Quality of Product
Part 52 Quality of Experience
Part 53 Restructuring to Quality
Part 54 Breakthrough Schools
Part 55 Discussion Points
Chapter 56 7 Priority Leadership: How Lebanon Schools Manage the Triangle of Tension
Part 57 Generating Tension in Lebanon
Part 58 Priority 1—The Student Achievement System (SAS): A Quest for Equity
Part 59 Efficiency Takes Its Toll: No new Money
Part 60 Meeting Student Needs Becomes the Focus: A Reflection of Equity
Part 61 Lebanon's Cnotinuous Progress Model of Instruction
Part 62 Breakthrough Results
Part 63 Priority 2—Signature Schools: A Quest for Excellence
Part 64 Priority 3—Effective Instruction: Professional Growth and Accountability (PGA) System
Part 65 Conclusion
Part 66 Discussion Points
Chapter 67 8 Applying the QSI in the School Setting
Part 68 Pioneer School—My Story
Part 69 Puzzle Building
Part 70 Bottom Border: Relationships
Part 71 Instruction: Time and How You Use It
Part 72 Pushing the Borders of Time
Part 73 After-School Program
Part 74 Summer School
Part 75 Intersession Calendar
Part 76 More Pieces to Puzzle
Part 77 Conclusion
Part 78 Discussion Points
Chapter 79 9 Principals: Recommendations for Restructuring
Part 80 Invest in Quality Teachers
Part 81 Stress Client Service Throughout the School
Part 82 Provide Priority Leadership: Determine a Vision, Build It, and Communicate It Effectively
Part 83 Build Leadership Capacity and Teaming
Part 84 Emphasize Continuous Improvement in All Areas by Focusing on Data-Driven Results
Part 85 Move Away from "Boss Management" to "Lead Management"
Part 86 Work with the Central Office
Part 87 Build a Sense of Community and Create Smallness
Part 88 Build and Use Networks
Part 89 Use Tension Generated from External Demands as Impetus for Growth
Part 90 Instill Hope and Make It Fun
Part 91 Conclusion
Part 92 Discussion Points
Chapter 93 10 Recommendations for Policymakers
Part 94 Continue to Support the Development of External Standards
Part 95 Adopt Teacher Evaluation Systems That Reinforce Quality Instruction
Part 96 Develop Meaningful Individual and Collective Incentives for Students and Schools That Reward Innovation and Risk Taking
Part 97 Keep Informed About the Needs and Wants of School Leaders, Teachers, Parents, and Students
Part 98 Develop Effective Statewide Assessment Tools
Part 99 Increase Receptivity to Change Through Statewide Communication Forums
Part 100 Be Committed to the Restructuring of Public Education
Part 101 Conclusion
Part 102 Equity: Meeting Student Needs
Part 103 Excellence: Achievement (Learning) Relative to Potential
Part 104 Efficiency: Maximizing the Use of Time, Money, Staff, and Resources to Meet Student Needs
Part 105 Discussion Points
Part 106 Glossary of Terms
Part 107 References
Part 108 Index
Part 109 About the Author


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781578862023
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Education
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: How Principals and Policymakers Can Survive the Triangle of Tension
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1578862027
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 245 gr


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