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Penuel, William R.; Riel, Margaret; Krause, Ann E.; Frank, Kenneth A. – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Researchers have proposed a number of lenses for analyzing teacher professional communities in recent years. These lenses have been useful in describing key dynamics of professional communities; however, none provides a compelling approach to how to integrate data from the school as a whole with case study data on individual…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Social Networks, Social Capital, Teaching Methods
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Robinson, J. Gregg – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2007
This paper examines the role of poverty ideology in determining whether a teacher comes to teach at a poor school (presence) and whether s/he remains at this type of school over time (persistence). A sample of 400 teachers in San Diego California was administered a questionnaire that evaluated respondents' attitudes toward poverty. Teachers who…
Descriptors: Poverty, Teacher Persistence, Disadvantaged Schools, Ideology