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The Laboratory for Student Success (LSS) was established as the mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory in 1995 and continued to operate as such at the Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education until March 2006. As one of the 10 regional educational laboratories under contract to the U. S. Department of Education, LSS provided a rich resource for research-based educational reform. The laboratory at Temple University focused on the needs of the most severely disadvantaged and underserved populations across the region, providing a dynamic system of research, procedural knowledge, development, and dissemination of findings in order to improve schools and students’ academic performance.
The resources of the LSS research program—resources that present innovative work and insight by regional and national experts—address a wide range of pressing educational issues. This work of the Laboratory for Student Success continues to be available to the public at this website. If you have any questions about this site or the information available on it, please contact Marilyn Murphy, marilyn.murphy@temple.edu.
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SLLC Network
Now available in the LSS Field Notes Series: Click here for "Preparing and Supporting School Principals—Early Insights and Impressions from the School Leadership Learning Community."
Click here for the complete list of the 24 programs in the SLLC Network. And click here for a list of the other available issues of Field Notes.
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New series now available in the LSS publications library (Click here for the Publications Library):
REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH
(Click here for the Review of the Research section.)
• "Quality Teachers for English Language Learners ," a review of the research authored by renowned educational researchers Kip Téllez and Hersh C. Waxman. (Click here to view this publication.)
• "Educational Leadership," a review of the research authored by renowned educational researcher Kenneth Leithwood. (Click here to view this publication; click
here to read a featured article about Kenneth Leithwood, in the 9/8/04 edition of EdWeek, entitled: "Major Study to Identify What Good Leaders Do Right.")
• "Small Learning Communities," a review of the research authored by renowned small learning communities researcher Diana Oxley . (Click here to view this publication.) |
| Now available in the LSS Spotlight Series: Click here for "Effective Professional Development Programs For Teachers of English Language Learners" by
Kip Téllez and Hersh C. Waxman. |
A New Agenda for Research
in Educational Leadership
edited by William A. Firestone and Carolyn Riehl
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This book, the product of the task force on research cosponsored by the American Educational Research Association Division A and the University Council on Educational Administration, sets an ambitious agenda for research in educational leadership. Prominent scholars in the field review current knowledge about leadership, frame new questions to generate important research in the field, and direct researchers and policymakers to rethink how educational administration, leadership, and policy should be understood. Covering a broad range of topics, from accountability systems and school–community relationships to the education of students from diverse backgrounds, the authors submit current research to critical scrutiny in order to develop frameworks for new research that can have a significant impact on policy and practice. Contributors include Albert Bennett, Mary Erina Driscoll, Carol R. Fendt, Gail C. Furman, Ellen B. Goldring, Pamela Konkol, Kenneth A. Leithwood, Barbara Scott Nelson, Nona A. Prestine, Pedro Reyes, Carolyn M. Shields, Dorothy Shipps, Mark A. Smylie, James P. Spillane, Mary Kay Stein, and Lonnie Wagstaff. William A. Firestone is professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at Rutgers University. Carolyn Riehl is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Click here to order from publisher Teachers College Press.
Or click
here to order from amazon.com.
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Extensive up-to-date resources available on the LSS website under
Resources
(Click here for the Resources section.)
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Consortium for Parent Information and Education (CPIE) CPIE's mission is to provide parents with the tools and information they will need to make the best possible decisions about their children's education.
Leadership for Student Learning: Connecting schools systems to information that helps design quality leadership development strategies for their principals.
>> Visit the e-LEAD website for more information
 Discover the nation’s network of support for research-based school reform. The 2003 Regional Educational Laboratory Annual Report is now available online at www.relnetwork.org
The primary mission of the Laboratory for Student Success is to bring about lasting improvements in the learning of the mid-Atlantic region's increasingly diverse student population.
The ultimate goal of LSS is to establish a system of research, development and dissemination that connects schools, parents, community agencies, professional groups, and higher education institutions;
gradually expands improvement efforts in the region to transform low-performing schools into high-performing learning communities; and is part of a national system of information exchange.
The 6th National Principals’ Forum was held in Washington, D.C. on October 12–14, 2005.
At this invitation only forum, distinguished school principals met to discuss how principals could create better alliances to increase student achievement... [ Read More ]
Download the Powerpoint presentations from the Forum:
>> National Principals' Forum 2005
>> National Principals' Forum Working Policy
>> Petal School District Principal Leadership Growth & Assessment
>> Petal School District Core Business
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