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Ashlee Lynn McManamey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduation rates and standardized test scores are common indicators to measure student academic achievement. These indicators have revealed a gap between two socioeconomic cohorts of students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students attending high-poverty schools have lower academic performance than students attending low-poverty schools. As a…
Descriptors: Poverty, Comparative Analysis, Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership
Goldring, Ellen B.; Rogers, Laura K.; Clark, Melissa A. – Mathematica, 2020
The Wallace Foundation's Principal Supervisor Initiative (PSI) was a four-year effort to redefine principal supervision in six urban school districts. Launched in 2014, the PSI aimed to help these districts transform the principal supervisor position from a role that traditionally focused on managerial tasks to one dedicated to developing and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Schools, School Districts, Principals
Knight, Nina Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Governmental attention to bullying in kindergarten through Grade 3 continues to be a challenge in a metropolitan school district in the eastern United States. This has presented a case for school policy reform. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine how bullying and office discipline related to suspension referrals,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Educational Change, School Policy, Kindergarten
Forry, Nicole; Wessel, Julia – Child Trends, 2012
Increased emphasis has been placed on children's ability to enter kindergarten ready to learn, a concept referred to as "school readiness." School readiness has been defined by the Maryland State Department of Education as "the stage of human development that enables a child to engage in, and benefit from, primary learning…
Descriptors: Comprehension, School Readiness, Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten
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Gordon, Stephen P.; Stiegelbauer, Suzanne; Diehl. Julie – Educational Considerations, 2006
This study reports on the process and outcomes of schoolwide action research by nine schools in their first year as Network members. The participants were a blend of urban, suburban, small town, and rural schools in Central Texas. Focal points of the case studies and cross-case comparison included: (1) how the schools organized for action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Kindergarten