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Blankenship, Shaketha – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Small learning communities, an initiative to transform large struggling comprehensive high schools into smaller autonomous schools, are being empirically examined in the field of education to assess if transformation is actually occurring as seen by positive outcomes, such as increased academic achievement. There is an absence of literature on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, School Counselors, High Schools, School Counseling
Towe, Princess B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the perceptions of Language Arts teachers, Mathematics teachers, and administrators in four high schools in a large urban New Jersey school district regarding a standards-based teacher evaluation system implemented in 2003 adapted and modeled on "Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching" (Danielson,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, High Schools
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Van Ryzin, Mark J. – Journal of School Choice, 2008
Many educational researchers have identified issues on classifying schools and some have made use of ad-hoc classification systems in their analyses; however, these solutions are generally one-dimensional, which prohibits them from capturing the full breadth of variation among schools. To understand the amount of variation that exist in schools…
Descriptors: Homogeneous Grouping, Classification, Educational Researchers, Educational Assessment