Instructional Leadership Expenditures at Texas Schools: A Multiyear, Statewide Analysis

Distributed Instructional Leadership in High Schools

Any opinions, findings, or conclusions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies, WCER, or cooperating institutions. The authors acknowledges the research and editorial contributions of 2 This paper explores the idea of distributed instructional leadership as a way to understand instructional leadership practice in compreh...

Texas Hunting Leases: Statewide and Regional Summary

The selling of hunting leases by private landowners has been regulated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) since 1925. However, a comprehensive examination of leasing activity and wildlife management practices used by landowners who lease lands for hunting has never been conducted. This study had three objectives: (1) to develop procedures to regularly monitor trends and changes i...

Capital Expenditures for Public Schools

Much has been gained by the EIA. By the deadline, 100% of school systems were in compliance, and no waivers were granted. The percentage of students in temporary classrooms declined from 5.4% to 4.2%. The number of systems with facilities rated “Poor” declined from 16 to 8, and the actual number of “Poor” schools went down from 44 to 20. In the 5-year period examined in this study, the number o...

Leadership and branding in business schools: a Bourdieusian analysis

Texas Cancer Plan 2005: A statewide blueprint for cancer prevention and control in Texas, 4th Edition

Year by year, evidence grows stronger that a majority of cancers in thousands of Texans could have been prevented by modification of the choices each person makes every day: what to put on the dinner table, whether to take a brisk walk, when to stop smoking cigarettes, how often to visit the doctor to be screened. Of the nearly 33,000 lives lost to cancer in Texas each year between 1997 and 200...