When Size Matters: Making Big Schools Feel Small (An Education World E-interview With Paul S. George)
Educators have seen the fallout from big and anonymous schools -- kids don't flourish in those environments. Paul S. George, coauthor of "Making Big Schools Feel Small: Multiage Grouping, Looping and Schools-Within-a-School." comments that schools need to do what it takes to foster long-term relationships between students and teachers.
"Turning Points 2000": A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform
This week, Education World interviews Dr. Anthony Jackson. He is a director of the Walt Disney Company's Disney Learning Partnership and co-author, with Dr. Gayle Davis, of the University of Maryland, of "Turning Points 2000," a highly acclaimed sequel to his original report on middle grades education reform. Find out what's different in "Turning Points 2000" and what educators have learned through research and practice in ten years of implementing "Turning Points 2000" recommendations.
Buffalo Schools to Reorganize
A study of Buffalo schools by the Council of the Great City Schools recommends changing the district's management and organizational structure to ultimately lead to greater student achievement.
From the Principal Files: The Principal Shortage -- What Can Schools Do to Attract a New Generation of School Leaders?
Education World asked our "Principal Files" principals to suggest some ideas that might help grow the shrinking pool of qualified school leaders. Today, we share their responses! Included: Read their replies -- some common sense, others provocative!
From the Principal Files: Principals Identify Top Ten Leadership Traits
Education World recently surveyed 43 principals to learn what they consider essential traits of successful school leaders. Vision, trustworthiness and credibility, daily visibility, and a sense of humor were among the ten traits that topped the list! Included: Principals comment on the most important characteristics of strong leadership!
'Formative Leadership' Theory Views Principal as Leader of Leaders An Education World e-Interview With the People Behind the Theory
The theory of "formative leadership," developed by Dr. Ruth Ash and Dr. Maurice Persall, of Samford University, is based on the belief that many leaders exist within a school. The theory supports the teacher as a school leader and the principal as the leader of leaders. Today, Education World interviews Ash and Persall about the leadership theory they developed.
Skilled Leadership the Key to Improving Test Scores, Study Says
Researchers at Seattle Pacific University recently surveyed 40 successful principals to learn why some schools succeed while others struggle to achieve. Researchers also learned what it would take for those principals to agree to take over the reigns of a struggling school. Included: Comments from researchers and principals and a bold idea for restructuring the principal's job!
Site-Based Management: Boon or Boondoggle?
Site-based management is great --- when it works! Today, Education World
looks at research on SBM. We talk with a prominent superintendent who leads a large school system in which site-based management has garnered accolades. Learn what that superintendent has to say about making SBM work!
Can Non-Educators Lead Our Schools?
Roy Romer, a former Colorado governor, was selected last week to lead the schools of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Romer is the latest non-educator to lead a large urban school district. What drives school districts to look outside education for leadership? Is this a trend or another experiment bound to fail?
