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The purpose of the course is to analyze and study the philosophical and
historical foundations that underline leadership concepts and practices in
contemporary urban schools. Students explore the political, social, and
economic context in which urban schools operate. Students also examine
effective leadership and management strategies for urban schools in eight key
policy/management areas: finance, personnel/employee relations, students’
performance, program definition (curriculum and student services), facilities
and security, media (communications and community relations), and education
law.

EDAD 810 DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTIAL STATISTICS IN EDUCATION
Former course number 701
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This is a statistics course designed to prepare the education student with the
essential statistical concepts for developing statistical designs in their own
research. In addition to the fundamental principles of descriptive and
inferential statistics, students learn to use computers to compute data and to
interpret computer-generated results produced by statistical software. Course
topics include measurements of central tendency, variability, relative position,
and correlation; sampling and probability distributions, tests of significance; t-
tests; analysis of variance; chi-squire tests, and regression analysis.

EDAD 815 EDUCATION PLANNING AND EVALUATION
Former course number 711
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course is a comprehensive examination of planning practices and
procedures in selected educational settings and will include the development
of a model plan as a related research project. Advanced study of topics related
to the design and development of educational policies and operations in
support of organizational planning including appropriate research needs and
methods are also included. Also, an introduction to evaluation of the
effectiveness of educational programs and policies in relation to systems
theory and analysis of organizations.

EDAD 820 HUMAN RESOURCE ADMINISTRATION
Former course number 715
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3

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