Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

In school reform, students are rarely consulted. This book presents a step-by-step process for involving students in transforming schools and empowering them to make real decisions that affect their education.

Crammed with strategies, ideas, and techniques to help you boost your students' math SAT I scores.

The social reality of discrimination in schools is examined in this volume. Through extensive interviews conducted in four inner-city schools in the United States, Louis F Mir[ac]on identifies two forms of discrimination - racial and academic. He then presents positive strategies designed for administrative leaders to eradicate the problem of discrimination from their schools.

Focusing on an important emerging issue in United States' education - school reform via privatization - this book is designed to meet three major goals: to examine the foundations and the context of the privatization movement; to review the evidence on privatization in areas other than schooling; and to shape decisions about privatization in the school-reform arena.

A firsthand account of outstanding principals' experiences in shared-governance schools is presented in this book on democratic principal leadership. In particular, the book fills the knowledge gap - the current lack of research-based information on collaborative school-restructuring methods - that has caused many attempts at school restructuring to fail.

The experiences of an educational organization that went through significant reform over a 13-year period are described in this book. The Kenmore-Tonawonda school district in the United States underwent changes in size, structure, leadership and skills to eventually become a nationally recognized school district of excellence.

This useful guide demystifies the conference process. The author, a professional meetings planner with 25 years experience, addresses all aspects of conference planning including: programme planning; budgeting; finding a location; advertising; and finding speakers and entertainment.

Combining the analytical techniques of political theory and comparative politics as a method of innovative inquiry and research in political science, this book elaborates on Rousseau's discursive style, Marx's historical materialism and Foucault's system of political and social analysis.

Providing an analysis of the use of the referendum to decide land use matters in the USA, this study examines the increasing use and future of "ballot box" planning. It includes individual case studies from California, Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Oregon.

Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitors, social workers, criminal justice administrators, government officials and legislators, Helping Crime Victims offers the reader practical ideas and realistic strategies in the form of procedural guides and workable programme components and services that seem effective in meeting the needs of crime victims.

Focusing on community-based child abuse prevention programmes, this manual facilitates programme self-evaluation research so that it can be conducted with a minimum of outside technical assistance. It explores models of evaluation and discusses common technical elements of programme evaluation research.

Addressing a broad range of clinical situations, this book focuses on the practical application of feminist theory to clinical experience.

This ready-to-use tool kit of fun and functional strategies, based on the National Reading Panel Report, helps teach the most difficult piece of the reading process: comprehension.

This insightful guide offers straightforward explanations of the past, present, and future of professional development programs.

Leadership and the Force of Love discusses the overwhelming impact of leading with love and affirms that if you can't love, you can't lead.

This invaluable guidebook contains a rich list of resources, sample surveys, and easy-to-apply advice.

As educators we often take ourselves a bit too seriously, so veteran educator and illustrator Aaron Bacall offers a little perspective with these lighthearted cartoons.

This first-of-its-kind work addresses the needs of students, instructors, and practitioners, helping new, experienced, and prospective assistant principals develop the skills they need most.

This book provides research-based literature focused on high school level educational reform-an area not adequately addressed by the current literature on school reform.