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Professor Hughes has written
extensively about school district management, planning and governance
issues. He is author of
The Multimedia Administrator
(Cummings and Hathaway, 1997), the primary author of
Understanding Educational
Planning
(Connolly-Cormack, 1997) and
Multimedia Budget
Presentations
(International Association of School Business Officials Press, 1998)
and the co-author of Boards
at Their Best
(Connolly-Cormack, 1995), all of which concentrate on merging new
analytical skills with new technologies for both the current and
future generation of educational leaders. He completed a book on
resource sharing among school districts entitled
From Cooperation to
Collaboration
(Cummings and Hathaway, 1999) based upon a number of state funded
school district efficiency studies and served as a contributing author
and computer programmer for
Chasing the American Dream
(The NYC Community Service Society and the NY
Conference of the NAACP, 1981).
Dr. Hughes' current
research interests focus on urban
school districts and minority achievement gaps.
Using data gathered over a six year period and funded by the Marie and
John Zimmermann Foundation, he serves as lead researcher and co-author
of
Mentoring for Success
(Zimmermann, 2006), which is an on-going examination of the
educational implications of implementing an academic mentoring model
for urban middle school youth. Yale University, Wheelock College,
Trinity College, and Sacred Heart University serve as the sites for
this research effort. He is also the
Senior Researcher for the New York State School Board Association
where, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Hughes
has worked with the 57 small city school districts on data-driven
decision making.
Given his strong commitment to
schools and data, Dr. Hughes has recently
completed the fifth printing of the School District Almanac's
Data Points
(2007), published annually across New York State for
about 400 school districts. The extensive database he has
developed is intended to help provide educational decision-makers with
an immediate and timely database of financial, instructional,
achievement, and demographic data for decisions and planning. He
recently published School District
Vital Signs
(2007) and
The Budget Pulse
(2007), both summary derivatives of a growing family of products from
the School District Almanac Database, developed by Dr. Hughes. He is currently
working on his latest book on data decision-making entitled Data
Matters, due next year.
Dr. Hughes
is also the author of a number of published articles on school
district management techniques, data analysis, and executive
information including “Building new knowledge for
school quality improvement”;, “Decision mapping leads to decision
making”; “The Digital Business Administrator”; “Using benchmarking to
analyze maintenance and operations efficiency”; “Getting to the
handshake: A partnership primer”; “Multimedia school budget
presentations”; “Using geographic information systems for
administrative decision making”; “Multimedia caveats”; “The
Administratively effective school district”; “Geographic information
systems for the 21st century business office”, "The digital
administrator for the New Age", "The school board member as a
professional" and "Navigating the whitewater of data-driven
decisions", among others.
He teamed with a colleague at Teachers College on an unpublished
monograph entitled "The New Ecology of Management", which was used
in several classes on advanced management techniques and analysis.
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For information about the
Mentoring for Success
research project
funded by the Marie and John Zimmermann
Foundation at Yale University, Sacred Heart University,
Trinity College, and Wheelock College, click
HERE.
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For information about the
Small City Districts Project funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation through the New York
State School Boards Association, click
HERE.
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