A01=Nancy Walser
Author_Nancy Walser
Category=JNK
educational leadership
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high academic standards
No Child Left Behind
school policies
school reform
student achievement
successful school board policies
Product details
- ISBN 9781934742327
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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