
The Essential School Board Book
Better Governance in the Age of Accountability
Nancy Walser(Author)
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-934742-32-7 (ISBN)
Description
Amid today's heightened attention on student achievement, school boards find their responsibilities intensified and transformed. In this age of accountability, all school boards need to consider how best to maintain a focus on student achievement and promote it through district and school policies. The Essential School Board Book answers this challenge in direct and practical terms. It highlights effective practices that are common to high-functioning boards around the country-boards that are working successfully with their superintendents and communities to improve teaching and learning. In a highly readable and accessible fashion, the book summarizes research linking school board practices to student achievement. It features stories of sixteen diverse boards around the country-elected and appointed; rural, urban, and suburban-and the policies and procedures they have employed to enhance student achievement. Also included is a resource section for those investigating successful school board policies and practices in more depth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934742-32-7 (9781934742327)
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E-Book
10/2009
Harvard Education Press
€25.49
Available for download
Person
Nancy Walser is editor of theHarvard Education Letter and author of The Essential School Board Book: Better Governance in the Age of Accountability.
||||Ray Rist is a senior evaluation officer with the Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank. He has held senior positions in both the legislative and executive branches of the United States government as well as teaching positions at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University
||||Ray Rist is a senior evaluation officer with the Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank. He has held senior positions in both the legislative and executive branches of the United States government as well as teaching positions at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University