Betty Malen's Books

Performance-Based Pay for Educators

Assessing the Evidence

By: Jennifer King Rice,Betty Malen

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Performance-Based Pay for Educators

Assessing the Evidence

By: Jennifer King Rice,Betty Malen

This book provides an in-depth analysis of a performance-based pay initiative and crystalizes the design issues and implementation challenges that confounded efforts to translate this promising policy into practice. This story has much to say to academics and policymakers who are trying to figure out the combinations of incentives and the full range of resources required to establish incentive programs that promote an adequate supply and equitable distribution of capable and committed educators for our public schools. The book uncovers the conditions that appear to be necessary, if not fully sufficient, for performance-based initiatives to have a chance to realize their ambitious aims and the research that is required to guide policy development. In so doing, the authors consider the thorny question of whether performance-based pay systems for educators are worth the investment. “Education reformers have long known that performance-based pay is devilishly difficult to implement. All too often top-down, piecemeal changes squander scarce resources and undermine trust. Now, Rice and Malen’s first-rate study of one district’s comprehensive pay reform reveals that even well-planned, collaborative efforts easily go awry, casting further doubt on the promise of pay incentives to improve schooling. This book is required reading for all well-intentioned reformers.” —Susan Moore Johnson, Harvard University “Rice and Malen provide a compelling account of one district’s experience with a performance-based incentive program for educators. This book is a rare and valuable analysis of a policy uncovering both the technical and political challenges inherent in designing and implementing reform even under the most promising of conditions. Given the enduring interest in and ongoing federal funding available for pay-for-performance policies—and the surprising lack of research evidence undergirding this popularity—it behooves policymakers, reformers, funders, and students to learn from this important case.” —Julie A. Marsh, University of Southern California

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209

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Teachers College Press

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ISBN 10

0807775614

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9780807775615

Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving

By: Betty Linn Davenport

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Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving

By: Betty Linn Davenport

With instructions for how to make wonderful projects and plain-weave variations, this user-friendly guide covers choosing, setting up, and weaving on a rigid heddle loom. Both beginners and experienced weavers will value its thriftiness and versatility.

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424

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Penguin

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0934026254

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9780934026253

Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders

By: John R. Hoyle,Fenwick W. English,Betty Steffy

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Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders

By: John R. Hoyle,Fenwick W. English,Betty Steffy

This resource is the most important book in years focusing on the preparation and development of school leaders. Comprehensive in scope and extremely readable, Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders provides a complete overview of the knowledge base and skills for successful school leaders. The publication is based on the standards recently developed by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLe, the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and state education agencies.

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206

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R&L Education

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1578860547

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9781578860548

Else Lasker-Schuler

A Life

By: Betty Falkenberg

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Else Lasker-Schuler

A Life

By: Betty Falkenberg

Else Lasker-Schuler, a pivotal figure in German Expressionism, presided over avant-garde cafe life in pre-World War I Berlin in much the same way Gertrude Stein did in Paris around the same time. While her work is not yet very well known in the English-speaking world, it has been enjoying a critical and popular revival in Germany. This full-length biography of Lasker-Schuler--the first in English--explores her poems, plays, prose and graphic works in light of her life. It begins with her fleeing to Switzerland after Hitler's accession to power in 1933, looks back at her childhood in Wuppertal, then follows her life through to its end in Jerusalem in January 1945. As a Jew, a woman and a bohemian, Lasker-Schuler defied every category. Her two marriages--first to Dr. Berthold Lasker, then to Herwarth Walden, founder of the leading avant-garde periodical, gallery and publishing house, Der Sturm (The Storm)--as well as her interactions with Karl Kraus, Franz Marc, Gottfried Benn, Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem, are documented in letters and poems, many included here both in the original and in translation.

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252

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McFarland

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078641460X

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9780786414604

Marriage Records of Scioto County, Ohio, 1803-1860

By: Caryn R. Shoemaker,Betty J. Sisler Rudity

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Marriage Records of Scioto County, Ohio, 1803-1860

By: Caryn R. Shoemaker,Betty J. Sisler Rudity

Compilers Shoemaker and Rudity have assembled a definitive list of 9,000 marriages performed in this southern Ohio county between 1803 and 1860. Each record contains the names of the bride and groom, the date of the marriage, a source citation, and often ages, places of residence, and the names of parents. For convenience, the records are listed in alphabetical order by grooms' names; brides and all others mentioned in the records are listed separately in the index.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806311703

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9780806311708

Book's by Betty Malen

Performance-Based Pay for Educators

Performance-Based Pay for Educators

Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving

Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving

Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders

Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders

Else Lasker-Schuler

Else Lasker-Schuler

Marriage Records of Scioto County, Ohio, 1803-1860

Marriage Records of Scioto County, Ohio, 1803-1860

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