Successful Schools and Educational Accountability: Concepts and Skills to Meet Leadership Challenges
- ISBN-10
- 0205474780
- ISBN-13
- 9780205474783
- Category
- Education / General
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pearson
- Authors
- Kenneth K. Wong, Anna Nicotera
Description
This text in AB's new Educational Leadership series from Peabody College, discusses how the standards and accountability movement has affected teachers and school leaders and illustrates its impact on learning. This text stands out due to authorship and breadth of research used. It was developed by the leading scholars in educational accountability as part of a series from one of the leading Schools of Education in the world. No other text discusses policy and practice in such a systematic way, with such a strong basis in current research.
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