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Essential Websites for Educational Leaders in the 21st Century.


Educators wishing to avoid the struggle of finding the perfect website will want to reserve a copy of Essential Websites for Educational Leaders in the 21st Century. Author James James, person in the Bible
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 Lerman, an experienced administrator and designer of educational environments, points us to relevant websites that are stable in a world of changing web locations.

Lerman's sites encompass many of the topics that school leaders wrestle with regularly. Under headings such as "crisis and disaster intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. ," he lists seven websites to help principals deal with such situations and create building-level policies to avert those disasters.

Other chapters titled "Family Focus," "Homework Help" and "Preparing for College and Career" offer resources of value to wider audiences. Websites covering grants and "Law and Finance" provide administrators with the tools to locate timely financial support. The book is accompanied by a disk with listings of relevant websites in Adobe Reader The software that displays and prints Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files). Formerly known as Acrobat Reader, Adobe Reader is available free from the Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com) for Windows, Mac, OS/2 and various versions of Unix.  format.

Though Lerman mentions that his intended audience of Essential Websites for Educational Leaders in the 21st Century is those serving in administrative roles, this book should be considered a resource for educators in various roles. It should serve to cut down on our frustration while spending hours searching for that one website that can meet the need of the moment.

(Essential Websites for Educational Leaders in the 21st Century by James Lerman, Rowraan and Littlefield Littlefield can be the following places:
  • Littlefield, Arizona
  • Littlefield, Texas
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  • Dave Littlefield, former manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Edmund Wattis Littlefield
 Education, Lanham, Md., 2004, 106 pp., $32.95 softcover soft·cov·er  
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Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. 
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Sherion H. Jackson Jackson.

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Assistant Professor of Educational Administration, Texas A & M University-Commerce
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Date:Aug 1, 2005
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