The authors first present a national scene of Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS) and then use Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County as a case study. The book is useful for policy makers, administrators of early and education at various levels, researchers, and others who seek to improve early care and education.
This book discusses the identity and future of the school of education by exposing the internal and external tension the school experiences. Within the school of education, faculty members are frustrated by the alienating nature of the reward structure. Outside the school of education, there is a public dissatisfaction with its conduct and performance. The school of education must heed Dewey's admonition made one century ago, reorient itself, and proudly reclaim its lost identity.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Teacher Qualification and Certification -- 2. Inequitable Distribution of Public School Teachers -- 3. Alternative Certification -- 4. Teacher Attrition -- 5. Teacher Preparation.
School Principals is a timely and important book that fills in a gap in the knowledge base about the principalship. In highly readable form, the writers of this book address such questions as: Who are principals? What do they do? How do they think? What are their working conditions? How are they prepared? Those in educational leadership programs who aspire to be principals will find this information invaluable. Principals who read this will have a better understanding of their everyday work. Educational leadership researchers and policy makers will have a better idea of the population who must respond to the new demands of the principalship.