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	"Search Help" Note that this is a web site search and will not search our databases ("Directory of Organizations", "In-Process Abstracts", the ERIC Database, "Publications").	HOT TOPICS Class Size Charter Schools Data Analysis Educational Vouchers Role of Local School Boards School-Business Relationships School Leadership School Safety School Uniforms and Dress Codes Scientific Research Standards and Accountability Student Motivation Whole-School Reform On the above topics of high interest to many of our users, we have assembled a special set of resources. Many of these resources are integrated into the relevant topic categories of the Trends and Issues department of our website, and others are found elsewhere in the site. To make it easier for you to locate this information, we list below the resources and links that are relevant to each topic: Class Size Discussion of Class Size in Trends and Issues on School Organization Policy Report on Class Size ERIC Digest 136 - Capitalizing on Small Class Size Class Size Reduction: Effects and Relative Costs—Chapter of a forthcoming book by Lawrence O. Picus, Professor and Chair, Division of Administration and Policy, Rossier School of Education, and Director, Center for Research in Education Finance, University of Southern California. Abstracts—a complete ERIC database search Links to Other Sites Charter Schools Discussion of Charter Schools in Trends and Issues on School Choice ERIC Digest 118 - Charter Schools Problem-Based Learning Project on Charter Schools (for use in administrator training); comes with a copy of Charter Schools, by Joe Nathan (Jossey-Bass Publishers) Organizations Profiled in our Online Directory of Organizations: Alternative Education Resource Organization Center for Education Reform Center for School Change Center on Educational Governance Education Writers Association Morrison Institute for Public Policy National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education Reason Public Policy Institute Abstracts Links to Other Sites Data Analysis Abstracts-selected from the ERIC database Leadership Issues and Resources Guides, Models, and Processes State Initiatives and Activities Focus on Student Performance Case Studies and Examples Role of Teachers General Descriptions Research Roundup: Data Analysis for School Improvement ERIC Digest 153 - Data Inquiry and Analysis for Educational Reform ERIC Digest 150 - Educational Indicators ERIC Digest 109 - Data-Driven School Improvement Educational Vouchers Abstracts—a complete ERIC database search ERIC Digest 137 - Educational Vouchers Organizations Profiled in our Online Directory of Organizations: National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education Reason Public Policy Institute Role of Local School Boards Trends and Issues: Educational Governance (The Discussion of this topic is undergoing revision.) Book Roadmap to Restructuring: Charting the Course of Change in American Education   By David T. Conley Policy Perspective THE NEW PATTERNS OF AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL GOVERNANCE From Local Control to State and Federal Direction of Education Policy   By David T. Conley ERIC Digest 163 - Using School Board Policy To Improve Student Achievement ERIC Digest 141 - New Patterns of School Governance ERIC Digest 84 - The Changing Role of School Boards Selected Abstracts On Educational Governance Local School Boards Board-Superintendent Relations Organizations Profiled in our Online Directory of Organizations: National School Boards Association Program on Education Policy and Governance School-Business Relationships Policy Report: Business Partnerships with Schools     HTML format       PDF format (Adobe Acrobat required) Policy Report: Corporate Involvement in School Reform     HTML format       PDF format (Adobe Acrobat required) ERIC Digest 158 - Commercialism in Schools Research Roundup: Commercialism in Schools Discussion of Partnering with Business in Trends and Issues Abstracts—ERIC Database searches Partnering with Business Commercialism in Schools Links to other sites School Leadership Leaders for America's Schools: Training, Recruiting, and Selecting Principals for Success (book available only in electronic format on the 2003 edition of the Educational Management Electronic Library--CD-ROM) What We Know About Successful School Leadership (pdf) - prepared by the Task Force on Developing Research in Educational Leadership Discussion of the School Leader's Role in Trends and Issues Abstracts—selected from the ERIC database Samples from books we have published, in Adobe Acrobat format School Leadership: Handbook for Excellence, 3rd Edition, edited by Stuart C. Smith and Philip K. Piele Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 Measuring Leadership: A Guide to Assessment for Developoment of School Executives by Larry Lashway Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 Leading with Vision by Larry Lashway Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 Principals: How to Train, Recruit, Select, Induct, and Evaluate Leaders for America's Schools, by Mark Anderson (Acrobat full text) Research Roundup: Principal Induction Research Roundup: Distributed Leadership Research Roundup: Rethinking the Principalship Research Roundup: Principal Mentoring: An Update Research Roundup: Principal Mentoring Research Roundup: Comprehensive School Reform Research Roundup: Accountability Research Roundup: Preparing School Leaders Research Roundup: Standards for Administrators Research Roundup: Measuring Leadership Research Roundup: Leadership Strategies ERIC Digest 173 - Finding Leaders for Hard-to-Staff Schools ERIC Digest 172 - Improving Principal Evaluation ERIC Digest 170 - Inducting School Leaders ERIC Digest 165 - Transforming Principal Preparation ERIC Digest 162 - Trends in School Leadership ERIC Digest 160 - Developing Instructional Leaders ERIC Digest 149 - Principal Mentoring ERIC Digest 147 - Retaining Principals ERIC Digest 133 - Conducting a Principal Search ERIC Digest 127 - Performance Contracts for Administrators ERIC Digest 122 - Mistakes Educational Leaders Make ERIC Digest 110 - Visionary Leadership ERIC Digest 107 - Ethical Leadership ERIC Digest 105 - The Strategies of a Leader ERIC Digest 98 - Can Instructional Leaders Be Facilitative Leaders? ERIC Digest 96 - Facilitative Leadership ERIC Digest 91 - Leadership for School Culture Organizations Profiled in our Online Directory of Organizations: Center for Creative Leadership Centre for Leadership Development School Safety Action Bulletin: Crisis Prevention and Response: Is Your School Prepared? Book: Safe School Design: A Handbook for Educational Leaders Applying the Principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design by Tod Schneider, Hill Walker, and Jeffrey Sprague Research Roundup: Dress Codes and Uniforms Research Roundup: Early Intervention to Prevent Violence Discussion of School Safety and Violence Prevention—in Trends and Issues Legislative Testimony by Dr. Hill Walker, codirector of the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior, College of Education, University of Oregon: Key Questions About School Safety Oregon Senate Bill 555—the importance of early identification of and intervention with children who may be at risk of antisocial behavior Abstracts Zero-Tolerance Policies ERIC Digest 155 - Preventing Bullying ERIC Digest 148 - Uniforms and Dress-Code Policies ERIC Digest 146 - Zero-Tolerance Policies ERIC Digest 145 - Newer Technologies for School Security ERIC Digest 144 - Safer Schools Through Environmental Design ERIC Digest 139 - Profiling Students for Violence ERIC Digest 134 - Sexual Misconduct by School Employees ERIC Digest 132 - The Fundamentals of School Security ERIC Digest 117 - Student Dress Codes ERIC Digest 94 - School Violence Prevention Links to Other Sites School Uniforms and Dress Codes Abstracts ERIC Digest 148 - Uniforms and Dress-Code Policies ERIC Digest 117 - Student Dress Codes Research Roundup: Dress Codes and Uniforms Policy Report: School Dress Codes and Uniform Policies Links to Documents on Other Sites Scientific Research ERIC Digest 167 - Scientifically Based Research Discussion of Research in Trends and Issues Research Roundup: Scientifically Based Research Consumer's Guide to Research Information Organizations Profiled in our Online Directory of Organizations: American Educational Research Association Canadian Society for the Study of Education Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy Abstracts-selected from the ERIC database Links to Other Sites Standards and Accountability ERIC Digest 169 - The Mandate To Help Low-Performing Schools ERIC Digest 168 - Performance-Driven Budgeting: The Example of New York City's Schools ERIC Digest 161 - The Superintendent in an Age of Accountability ERIC Digest 152 - Incentives for Accountability ERIC Digest 150 - Educational Indicators ERIC Digest 138 - Standards: The Policy Environment ERIC Digest 130 - Holding Schools Accountable for Achievement ERIC Digest 127 - Performance Contracts for Administrators Research Roundup: The State of Standards Research Roundup: Leadership for Accountability Research Roundup: Accountability Research Roundup: Standards for Administrators Book: The New Standards and Accountability: Will Rewards and Sanctions Motivate America's Schools to Peak Performance? by Larry Lashway Three sample excerpts: Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Links to Other Sites Links to Sites About Accountability Links to Sites About Standards Student Motivation Student Motivation: Cultivating a Love of Learning, by Linda Lumsden—four sample excerpts in Adobe Acrobat format: Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1. What Is Motivation? Motivating Today's Students: The Same Old Stuff Doesn't Work, by Linda Lumsden, Portraits of Success Series, vol.1 no.2 ERIC Digest 125 - Student Truancy ERIC Digest 116 - Expectations for Students ERIC Digest 112 - Education Reform and Students at Risk ERIC Digest 92 - Student Motivation to Learn ERIC Digest 81 - Standards for Student Performance Student Motivation, School Culture, and Academic Achievement, by Ron Renchler, 1992 (Adobe Acrobat format) Whole-School (or Comprehensive) Reform Discussion—Brief overview of whole-school reform in Trends and Issues on School Reform Programs designed to bring about cross-disciplinary reform of schools (brief descriptions and contact information) Abstracts—a complete ERIC database search Research Roundup: Comprehensive School Reform ERIC Digest 140 - Evaluating the Results of Whole-School Reform ERIC Digest 128 - Implementing Whole-School Reform ERIC Digest 124 - Whole-School Reform Links to Other Sites