All students deserve one year's progress for one year's work, no matter where they start (Hattie, 2015, p.3). One in five will start school behind in learning in Australia this year and the major cause of this is their socioeconomic background (Cairney, 2016 as cited in Joyner, 2016). Often times …
Royce Willis: Towards a Strategic Blend in Education: A review of the blended learning literature
How might schools harness technological innovation for classroom effects? In this book the authors seek to answer this question by introducing and investigating the concept of Blended Learning through a review of current research literature. In this book, the authors consolidate the current state of …
Professor David Lynch A study into “organisational readiness” and its impacts on school improvement
The purpose of this paper is to compare measures of socio-economic status (Index of Community Socio-educational Advantage values (ICSEA)), school performance, school funding and school readiness in terms of their impact on student performance. In this respect, the paper tests the proposition – given …
Dr Tony Yeigh: School leadership and school improvement: an examination of school readiness factors
This article reports on an investigation into the influence stemming from school leadership as an important consideration in relation to school improvement. School readiness, based on [Schiemann, W. A. 2014. “From Talent Management to Talent Optimization.” Journal of World Business 49 (2): 281–288. …
School Improvement in the UAE: A Practical Implementation of the School Effectiveness Literature
This latest book, “School Improvement in the UAE” by Dr. Jake Madden, continues his school improvement research by providing teachers and school and education system leaders with an insight into what school improvement requires and, importantly, how to implement such a program in a school inthe …
Discrimination, Challenge and Response: People of North East India
Discrimination, Challenge and Response This book explores discrimination against Northeast Indians, who have been frequently stereotyped as backwards, anti-national, anti-assimilationist, immoral, and relegated to low paying positions across retail, hospitality, telecommunications and wellness …
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