Leading Schools in Challenging Times
Leading Schools in Challenging Times
Leading Schools in Challenging Times
Leading Schools in Challenging Times
Leading Schools in Challenging Times
Leading Schools in Challenging Times
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Leading Schools in Challenging Times

Eye to the Future

Bruce A. Jones

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A volume inEducational Policy in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Challenges and SolutionsSeries Editor: Bruce A. Jones , University of HoustonOver the past 30 years our public school system has received an unprecedented amount of attention as thisconcerns methods of school reform and policy strategies for bringing about this reform. During the 1980s theemphasis of school reform was on transparency through school-community partnerships. Business andphilanthropy, for example, became involved with issues of schooling that was unheard of prior to this period. The1980s also gave rise to issues of school finance and student performance that went beyond traditional views that tended to focus on finance"adequacy" to views that focused more on school finance arrangements that would lead to actual "equitable outcomes" in student performance.The 1990s witnessed the emergence of the comprehensive school reform movement whereby curriculum outsourcing occurred at rates that hadnever occurred before. With this movement, the role of teachers and school leaders in the creation of school curriculum diminished as schooldistricts increasingly purchased vendor-related curriculum packages, which included teacher and leader training modules and methods ofcurriculum assessment. On the heels of the increasing tendency of school districts to outsource school curriculum to curriculum-vendors came a risein demands for school accountability and school outcomes. This was particularly evident with the passage of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)(2001). NCLB was also developed within a political context that called for demands in the academic improvement of schools and school districts thathoused historically disenfranchised students. These demands were particularly important as the nation experienced and continues to experiencedramatic increases in student racial and ethnic diversity.This volume, entitled, Leading Schools in Challenging Times: Eye to the Future, discusses varying typesof school leadership in the context of key topics that have been at the center of on-going school reformin the United States. These topics include challenges, opportunities and issues associated with ouradministrator and teacher leadership pipeline, preparation and development; leadership and schoolfinance reform, leadership and changing student and population demographics; leadership and the roleof community; issues of leadership, policy, public accountability and school performance outcomes. Theauthors also explicate these issues with a view to the future and the status of leadership in our publicschool system.
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A volume inEducational Policy in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Challenges and SolutionsSeries Editor: Bruce A. Jones , University of HoustonOver the past 30 years our public school system has received an unprecedented amount of attention as thisconcerns methods of school reform and policy strategies for bringing about this reform. During the 1980s theemphasis of school reform was on transparency through school-community partnerships. Business andphilanthropy, for example, became involved with issues of schooling that was unheard of prior to this period. The1980s also gave rise to issues of school finance and student performance that went beyond traditional views that tended to focus on finance"adequacy" to views that focused more on school finance arrangements that would lead to actual "equitable outcomes" in student performance.The 1990s witnessed the emergence of the comprehensive school reform movement whereby curriculum outsourcing occurred at rates that hadnever occurred before. With this movement, the role of teachers and school leaders in the creation of school curriculum diminished as schooldistricts increasingly purchased vendor-related curriculum packages, which included teacher and leader training modules and methods ofcurriculum assessment. On the heels of the increasing tendency of school districts to outsource school curriculum to curriculum-vendors came a risein demands for school accountability and school outcomes. This was particularly evident with the passage of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)(2001). NCLB was also developed within a political context that called for demands in the academic improvement of schools and school districts thathoused historically disenfranchised students. These demands were particularly important as the nation experienced and continues to experiencedramatic increases in student racial and ethnic diversity.This volume, entitled, Leading Schools in Challenging Times: Eye to the Future, discusses varying typesof school leadership in the context of key topics that have been at the center of on-going school reformin the United States. These topics include challenges, opportunities and issues associated with ouradministrator and teacher leadership pipeline, preparation and development; leadership and schoolfinance reform, leadership and changing student and population demographics; leadership and the roleof community; issues of leadership, policy, public accountability and school performance outcomes. Theauthors also explicate these issues with a view to the future and the status of leadership in our publicschool system.

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