Increase public confidence and support for your school through effective communications! Administrators will find that this updated edition of the bestseller is packed with techniques for projecting a positive school image and strengthening the four-way partnership between schools, parents, community, and the private sector. The author offers novice and experienced school leaders practical tools for successfully communicating school goals, successes, challenges, needs, and educational priorities. The new edition features: Updated examples of recommended strategies within each chapter New chapters on 'Communicating with Technology' and 'Rallying Support for Public Schools'A revised, user-friendly Table of Contents and List of Resources

The authors of this book provide specific strategies that school leaders can employ, both with families and other community members, to build support for their school. Numerous case studies of successful family-involvement programmes currently in use, are included.

Increase public confidence and support for your school through effective communications! Administrators will find that this updated edition of the bestseller is packed with techniques for projecting a positive school image and strengthening the four-way partnership between schools, parents, community, and the private sector. The author offers novice and experienced school leaders practical tools for successfully communicating school goals, successes, challenges, needs, and educational priorities. The new edition features: Updated examples of recommended strategies within each chapter New chapters on 'Communicating with Technology' and 'Rallying Support for Public Schools'A revised, user-friendly Table of Contents and List of Resources

Celebrating the most important female voices in history, the newest addition to the acclaimed Newmarket "Words Of" series is an inspiring collection of the words and writings of notable women in the arts, education, sciences, and politics.
Selected by Carolyn Warner, a leader in the fields of education and politics and a frequent public speaker, this uplifting and thought-provoking compendium features quotes from notable women ranging from Charlotte Bronte and Helen Keller, to Rachel Carson, Oprah Winfrey, and Hillary Clinton.
Organized thematically, the selections explore a wide variety of subjects including: family, faith, character, education, leadership, and success.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout, "The Words of Extraordinary Women" is a timeless and inspiring classic, available in both paperback and hardcover gift editions.

As the European Union moved in the 1990s to a unified market and stronger common institutions, most observers assumed that the changes would reduce corruption. Aspects of the stronger EU promised to preclude or at least reduce malfeasance: regulatory harmonization, freer trade, and privatization of publicly owned enterprises. Market efficiencies would render corrupt practices more visible and less common.

In The Best System Money Can Buy, Carolyn M. Warner systematically and often entertainingly gives the lie to these assumptions and provides a framework for understanding the persistence of corruption in the Western states of the EU. In compelling case studies, she shows that under certain conditions, politicians and firms across Europe, chose to counter the increased competition they faced due to liberal markets and political reforms by resorting to corruption. More elections have made ever-larger funding demands on political parties; privatization has proved to be a theme park for economic crime and party profit; firms and politicians collude in many areas where EU harmonization has resulted in a net reduction in law-enforcement powers; and state-led "export promotion" efforts, especially in the armaments, infrastructure, and energy sectors, have virtually institutionalized bribery.

The assumptions that corruption and modernity are incompatible or that Western Europe is somehow immune to corruption simply do not hold, as Warner conveys through colorful analyses of scandals in which large corporations, politicians, and bureaucrats engage in criminal activity in order to facilitate mergers and block competition, and in which officials accept private payments for public services rendered. At the same time, the book shows the extent to which corruption is driven by the very economic and political reforms thought to decrease it."

The authors of this book provide specific strategies that school leaders can employ, both with families and other community members, to build support for their school. Numerous case studies of successful family-involvement programmes currently in use, are included.