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THE SEA OF LIGHT By Jenifer Levin. 391 pp. New York: Dutton. $21. THERE are some authors to whom one is grateful. Their stories tease your mind, tug at your [...]

SIN By Josephine Hart. 164 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $19. WHEN a title titillates, it is all the more disappointing when the novel that follows is boring. Josephine [...]

In August of 1974, at a candlelit dinner in a restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., shortly after my 21st birthday -- on which my mother, Anne Sexton, had appointed me as [...]

by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, American Management Association. New York, N.Y., 2010.132 pp. with index, $22.95 hardcover Management? It's Not What You Think! compiles articles, commentaries, poems [...]

by Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart, ASCD, Alexandria, Va., 2009,165 pp. with index, $27.95 softcover Educators know the importance of formative assessment--it's the information we use to improve [...]

by Ben C. DeSpain, Wizard Academy Press. Austin, Texas, 2008,127 pp., $19.95 hardcover Organizations benefit from two-way communication, and Ben C. DeSpain's book Your Right to Gripe and How To [...]

by Jane E. Pollock and Sharon M. Ford, ASCD, Alexandria, Va., 2009,149 pp. with index, $25.95 softcover As the superintendent in a rural school district, I feel the greatest impact [...]

Making Standards Useful in the Classroom by Robert J. Marzano and Mark W. Haystead, ASCD, Alexandria, Va., 2008, 290 pp., $30.95 softcover Identifying what we want students to know and [...]

Strategic Communication During Whole-System Change by Francis M. Dully and Patti L. Chance, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Md., 2006, 262 pp., $34.95 softcover Clear communication is always needed, and [...]

Differentiated School Leadership: Effective Collaboration, Communication and Change Through Personality Type by Jane A.G. Kise and Beth Russell, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2008, 214 pp. with index, 534.95 softcover [...]

Talk It Out! The Educator's Guide to Successful Difficult Conversations by Barbara E. Sanderson, Eye on Education, Larchmont, N.Y., 2005, 182 pp., $29.95 softcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Talk It Out! The [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Compelling Conversations: Connecting Leadership to Student Achievement by Thomasina D. Piercy, Advanced Learning Press, Englewood, Colo., 2006, 162 pp. with index, $24.95 softcover Compelling Conversations is an explicit [...]

Turnaround Leadership by Michael Fullan, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, Calif., 2006, 97 pp. with index, $22 softcover The need for turnaround leadership is emphasized by Michael Fullan with his definition of [...]

Creating Dynamic Schools through Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration by Judy F. Carr, Nancy Herman, and Douglas E. Harris, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Va., 2005, 164 pp. with [...]

As we strive to educate each child to truly reach his or her potential, literacy is a major component of that education. Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3 by Joseph [...]

For school leaders, good communications is imperative as we communicate the state of student achievement in our schools, the needs of our school to patrons, the successes of our schools [...]

LEAD: OUT OF THIS WORLD By Graham Swift. 208 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $16.95. OUT OF THIS WORLD By Graham Swift. 208 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $16.95. To [...]