The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1930608721 ISBN 13: 9781930608726

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

This handbook covers such research issues in middle level education as advisory programmes, teaming, effective teachers, staffing, and teacher preparation programmes.

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About the Author

Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. is Associate Professor of Educational Administration and Policy Studies at The University of Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of New Orleans in 1995. Before entering the professoriate he taught for 23 years in both middle and high schools in Louisiana and New Mexico. His research interests include middle school reform, leadership in middle schools, issues related to student achievement, and qualitative research methods. He is Past-President of AERA s Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group, the Chair of the National Middle School Association s (NMSA) Research Committee, and a board member of the Tennessee Association of Middle Schools (TAMS). His research has been published in Educational Researcher, Education and Urban Society, School Leadership, Leadership and Policy in Schools, and the NASSP Bulletin. His most recent book, From the Desk of the Middle School Principal: Leadership Responsive to the Needs of Young Adolescents (2002), was published by Scarecrow Press. He is the series editor of The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930608721
• ISBN 13: 9781930608726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Anfara Jr. Vincent A.