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The following NCPEA books (Connexions Collections) can be ordered as printed hard copies with cover(Perfect Bound) for a minimal cost (i.e., $8-$15). Delivery is 5-7 days. In addition, they may be ordered as EBooks (app. $7 - no shipping charges) and delivered directly to your email in minutes.
NCPEA Handbook of Online Intsruction and Programs in Education Leadership (February 2012) is a collaborative effort of 2 editors, 4 associate editors, and 42 authors. Individual chapters describe, challenge, suggest, question, inform, and assess a wide variety of issues related to online teaching and learning. Like the field of educational leadership, the Handbook is broad in scope. Chapters focus upon designing online programs with best practices, preparing faculty to teach in online environments, effectively designing instructional strategies for course content and internship experiences, understanding today’s learners, and evaluating program effectiveness. Chapters also venture into areas into which our future P-12 educational leaders will need to be prepared related to their own use of the online environment for collaboration and instruction. Available at: http://my.qoop.com/store/NCPEA-Press-1781472103076212/
Michigan School Finance: A Handbook for Understanding State Funding Policy for Michigan Public School Districts (January 2012) was written by William J. Price, professor of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan University. The purpose of this handbook is to help those interested in public education in Michigan gain an understanding of the system currently used to generate revenue for the support of Michigan’s public schools. In addition to describing where the dollars come from, it will also describe the basis on which dollars are distributed to each school district. Such a description would not be complete if it did not also include a discussion of some of the public policy questions that give rise to both support and criticism of the current system. To that end this handbook will briefly describe past problems, how they have been addressed, and what problems still remain. Available at:
http://my.qoop.com/store/NCPEA-Press-1781472103076212/
 Taking the Mystery Out of Illinois School Finance (4th Edition, July 2011) was written by Thomas A. Kersten, professor of Educational Leadership at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. This textbook was developed over several years and is designed to explain the key principles of Illinois school finance in a way that graduate students in educational administration programs, teachers, school board members, parents, building-level school administrators, and other interested citizens can grasp the essential content without getting bogged down in excessive financial detail. Only by understanding the basics of Illinois school finance, can school administrators, board members, and other constituents make informed decisions.
Available at: Taking the Mystery Out of Illinois School Finance
 Published (April 2011)
Calculating Basic Statistical Procedures in SPSS: A Self-Help and Practical Guide to Preparing Theses, Dissertations, and Manuscripts, is authored by John R. Slate and Ana Rojas-LeBouef from Sam Houston State University. This book is written to assist graduate students and faculty members, as well as undergraduate students, in their use of the Statistical Package of the Social Sciences-PC (SPSS-PC) versions 15-19. Specifically, we have generated a set of steps and screenshots to depict each important step in conducting basic statistical analyses. We believe that this book supplements existing statistical texts in which readers are informed about the statistical underpinnings of basic statistical procedures and in which definitions of terms are provided. Accordingly, other than providing a few basic definitions, we assume that dissertation chairs/thesis directors, students, and/or faculty will obtain their own definition of terms. We hope you find this set of steps and screenshots to be helpful as you use SPSS-PC in conducting basic statistical analyses.
Making Microsoft Word User-Friendly for Dissertations, Theses, and Manuscripts. This book comes as Part I and Part II and shows steps and procedures for formatting the often "troublesome" components of scholarly writing: Tables, Figures, Running Heads, Footers, Bar and Line Graphs, and the APA formatting of References and Citations. This is a must have for graduate students and advisors/committee members. Available in Perfect Bound, WireO, or as EBooks.
Available at: http://my.qoop.com/store/NCPEA-Press-1781472103076212/?search=NCPEA+Publications
Calculating Advanced Statistics, Part I and Part II. Slate and LeBouef's latest and best work. These two self-help guides display screenshots and explanations to such statistical procedures as: Discriminant Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis, Factor Analysis, Internal Consistency Analysis, and Multivariate Analysis of Variance.
Available at: http://my.qoop.com/store/NCPEA-Press-1781472103076212/?search=NCPEA+Publications
The Arizona Education Law Review, (2nd Edition, November 2011) was authored by Gary Emanuel, professor of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University. This handbook (updated with current laws in November 2011) should be used as a self-assessment instrument and is designed for use in Educational leadership classes as a part of the requirements for becoming a school administrator. Arizona administrators who wish to stay current with Arizona laws face a daunting variety of hurdles.
Available at: Arizona-School-Law-Review--2nd-Edition-by-Gary-L--Emanuel
The Handbook of Doctoral Programs: Issues and Challenges was written by 25 leading education leaders and edited by Carol Mullen, Theodore Creighton, Frederick Dembowski, and Sandra Harris. Our goals and purpose of this book are aimed at advancing understanding in areas relating to educational leadership and administration, and to enhance the capability and efficacy of university programs.
Available at: http://my.qoop.com/store/NCPEA-Press-1781472103076212/?search=NCPEA+Publications
Immigration in the United States and Spain: Considerations for Educational Leaders, edited by Beverly Irby and Rafael Lara, was germinated as a result of a recent academic symposium in Spain. At that time, the editors reflected on how wonderful it would be to disseminate the most critical components affecting immigration in the world today via print form. Public school administrators, teachers, and professors are no less affected by political and public issues as they affect their campuses and the students they serve than is the general society. In order to impact policy, curriculum, instruction, learning, and family involvement, information regarding the immigration in the latter part of the 20th Century and in the first decade of the 21st Century is crucial. There are grave educational, public, and political issues that must be considered by administrators and teachers in schools, as well as education professors, as they lead in educating all children, including the fastest-growing immigrant population, Hispanics.
The editors of this current book worked with several of the symposium presenters to develop a book in English that would be of interest to not only leaders, educators, and/or academicians, but also to a broader readership. available at:
http://cnx.org/content/col11174/latest
(to order, click on Order Printed Collection after reaching the URL)
A Learning Approach to School Discipline: Problem Solving Instead of Punishing, authored by Gary Martin and Angus MacNeil. This book presents a problem-solving approach to school discipline.
Available at: http://cnx.org/content/col10443/latest/
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