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UNINA9910480228003321 |
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Odden Allan |
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Improving student learning when budgets are tight [[electronic resource] /] / Allan R. Odden |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin, c2012 |
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1-4522-8402-4 |
1-4522-7971-3 |
1-4833-8770-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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School improvement programs - United States |
School budgets - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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FRONT COVER; IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING WHEN BUDGETS ARE TIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; Purpose; Audience; Organization; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Publisher's Acknowledgments; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CHAPTER 1: A PLAN OF ACTION: TURNING AROUND LOW-PERFORMING AND ENHANCING HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOLS; A Strategic Approach to Using the Education Dollar; A Plan of Action for Dramatically Improving Student Performance; Analyzing the Current Performance Situation; Setting High Goals; Changing Curriculum and Defining Effective Instructional Practices; Being Strategic About Core Versus Elective Courses |
Using Data to Improve InstructionOrganizing Teachers Into Collaborative Groups; Investing in Ongoing, Comprehensive, and Intensive Professional Development; Extra Help for Students Struggling to Meet Rigorous Performance Standards; Distributing Leadership Across All Levels and All Roles; Creating a Professional Culture; Taking Teacher and Principal Talent Seriously; Embracing a Performance Culture of Accountability for Student Achievement Results; Summary; Note; CHAPTER 2: THE RESOURCE NEEDS OF THE PLAN OF ACTION; Details of the Resource Needs of the Plan of Action |
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Example of a High-Spending District That Could Cut SpendingLinking Table 2.1 to School Finance Adequacy; Summary; Note; CHAPTER 3: TARGETING RESOURCES TO STUDENT LEARNING WHEN BUDGETS ARE TIGHT; Understand and Resist the Cost Increase Pressures on Schools; Smaller Classes; More Electives; Automatic Pay Increases; Growing Benefit Costs; Increased Costs and Flat Performance; How to Move Forward; An Example of Strategic Resource Reallocation for a Midwestern Middle School; More Detail on Strategic Budgeting; Class Size; School Schedules and Core Versus Elective Teachers; Professional Development |
Extra Help Programs for Struggling StudentsInterim Assessments; Other School Resources; Summary; Notes; CHAPTER 4: RECRUITING, DEVELOPING, AND COMPENSATING TOP EDUCATOR TALENT: LOCAL PRACTICES AND SUPPORTING STATE POLICIES; Acquiring, Developing, and Retaining Teacher Talent; Recruiting; Teacher Professional Development; Evaluation; State Policy Implications; Summary; Teacher Salary Structures; Summary and State Policy Implications; Educator Pensions; Three Major Pension Structures and the Typical Educator Pension; Impacts of Typical Educator Pensions on Teacher Behavior and Pension Costs |
A Proposal for Improving Educator PensionsSummary; CHAPTER 5: COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION: COSTS AND ONLINE OPTIONS; Costs of Technology Software and Hardware; Cost Overview; Computer Hardware; Operating System, Productivity, and Noninstructional Software; Network Equipment, Printers, and Copiers; Instructional Software and Hardware; Sources of Funding; Using Information Technologies for Instruction; Virtual Schools; K-12 Programs From Private Companies; Blended Instructional Programs; Effectiveness of Online Learning; Costs of Online Learning; Summary; Notes |
CHAPTER 6: WHEN BUDGET CUTS ARE NECESSARY |
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How do you stay focused on increasing student learning when budget cuts threaten everything you are striving for? This book offers a comprehensive framework to enhance student achievement in good times and in bad. School reform expert Allan R. Odden outlines a school improvement action plan focused sharply on student learning and then shows how to target resources to implement each strategy in that plan. |
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UNINA9910158981403321 |
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Autore |
Gurian Jeffrey |
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Laughing legends : how the Comic Strip club changed the face of comedy / / Jeffrey Gurian |
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New York : , : Skyhorse Publishing, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (174 pages) |
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Stand-up comedy - United States |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Richie Tienken -- Foreword By Jeffrey Gurian -- Introduction By Chris Rock -- Introduction to The Comic Strip -- Chapter One−The Older Kids -- Jerry Seinfeld -- Paul Reiser -- Larry Miller -- George Wallace -- Ray Romano -- Alan Colmes -- Paul Provenza -- Chris Rock -- Gilbert Gottfried -- Jackie Martling -- Susie Essman -- Tony D'Andrea -- Eddie Brill -- Rick Overton -- Wayne Federman -- D. F. Sweedler -- Joe Bolster -- Colin Quinn -- Lewis Black -- Billy Crystal -- Chapter Two−The Younger Kids -- Lisa Lampanelli -- Jim Breuer -- Pete Correale -- Adam Ferrara -- Sherrod Small -- Tony Rock -- Pete Dominick -- Jeffrey Ross -- Jim Gaffigan -- Judah Friedlander -- Chapter Three−Friends Of The Family -- Rory Rosegarten -- David Eberhart -- Rick Newman -- Chapter Four−The Next Generation -- Chapter Five−Legacy−What Next? The Future Of The Comic Strip -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Insert 1 -- Photo Insert 2. |
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Once in a lifetime a venue comes along that changes show business dramatically, that fosters growth and camaraderie, experimentation and freedom. The Comic Strip is one of those places, and Make 'Em Laugh is an inside look at how it all happened, straight from the mouths of the stars who built their careers on its stage. Owner Richie Tienken and a wealth of comics open their hearts and souls to share their most intimate memories, the laughs and tears, the good times and the bad, in order to paint an all-encompassing, behind-the-scenes history of |
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this iconic club. Interviews include famous comedians, such as: Jerry Seinfeld Gilbert Gottfried Paul Reiser Lisa Lampanelli George Wallace Billy Crystal Jim Breuer Susie Essman Lewis Black Ray Romano And many more! Relive the excitement as these comics explain how they came to belong to the Comic Strip family, and how they went on to enjoy huge careers, bringing laughter to millions of people all over the world. This book is a must for any comedian or comedy lover's library!. |
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