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Direct linkLuo, Zhongshu – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
The article analyzes the practice and experience of faculty management at the University of Pennsylvania and its implications for Chinese universities from the perspective of management systems and operation mechanisms. Recent reforms and innovation of faculty management at Sichuan University are described.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Administration, Personnel Management
Download full textDoyle, Daniela; Field, Tim – Public Impact, 2013
Charter school boards enter into a critical bargain: autonomy for accountability. Compared with their traditional district counterparts, they operate with relative freedom in curriculum, hiring, budgeting, and other operational decisions. In exchange, they are held accountable for student performance in ways that traditional district schools are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Closing, Charter Schools, Educational Quality
Han, Grace; Doyle, Daniela – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2013
Teacher residency programs are a relatively new method for building stronger teacher pipelines. Research assessing the impact of these programs is still limited, but some early reports suggest that residency programs hold promise for improving teacher effectiveness and retention rates (Barrett, Hovde, Hahn, & Rosqueta, 2011; Papay, West,…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence, Benchmarking
Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan – State Education Standard, 2015
The Wallace Foundation is funding a multiyear demonstration project to determine whether voluntary, district summer learning programs can stem summer learning loss for low-income students. Six districts--Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (Florida), Pittsburgh, and Rochester, New York--were selected for the demonstration project and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
Strauss, Robert P.; Liu, Jinxiang – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to characterize the choice made by retired professional school personnel in Pennsylvania to return to work in public education. This paper builds on earlier studies of the market for teachers and administrators in Pennsylvania. In this paper we describe retiring teachers, administrators and coordinators as…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Retirement, Employment, Public Education
McEachron, D. L.; Bach, C.; Sualp, M. – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine existing learning innovation systems and propose a systematic methodology of delivering educational innovations in the right amount, in the right place and at the right time. Design/methodology/approach: Higher education is not effectively incorporating new discoveries in cognitive science and human…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Research Papers (Students), Educational Innovation, Information Transfer
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2013
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV)" reinforces a longstanding federal commitment to supporting career and technical education (CTE). Although federal contributions account for only a fraction of total state and local spending on CTE, federal policy has had, and continues to have, a large…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Grants
Rovito, Michael; Masucci, Michele – Community Literacy Journal, 2009
We introduce the need for scholars interested in literacy, geography, and cultural studies to examine the role of English language literacy in shaping assimilation experiences of recent immigrant groups. We consider a case study of English language self-efficacy among ethnic Chinese immigrants in the Philadelphia metropolitan area to suggest how…
Descriptors: Migration, Immigrants, Asians, Chinese
Peer reviewedPesek, James G. – Rural Educator, 1993
A survey of 115 rural Pennsylvania principals examined the effectiveness of various recruitment sources for teachers. Substitute teacher lists were the most often used recruiting source. Problems in recruiting for "hard to fill" positions and the effectiveness of various methods for recruiting minorities are discussed. (LP)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Teachers, Rural Schools, School Districts
Bae, Sang Hoon; Gray, Kenneth; Yeager, Georgia – Career and Technical Education Research, 2007
The sometimes poor performance of Career and Technical Education (CTE) concentrators on a state-mandated proficiency test is a major concern of CTE educators. This study examined whether (a) there are performance differences on state-mandated 11th-grade math and reading tests between CTE and non-CTE students with similar proficiency scores in the…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Mathematics Achievement, Reading Tests, Mathematics Tests
Peer reviewedKarnes, Frances A.; Marquardt, Ronald G. – Roeper Review, 1995
Four state court cases are discussed, involving the issue of employing noncertified versus certified teachers in gifted education and teachers with seniority versus gifted education experience. Based on the two West Virginia cases and two Pennsylvania cases, it is concluded that mandatory certification provides greater legal protection for gifted…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Practices, Gifted
Molek, Carol – 1999
A project was conducted to revise the list of assessment instruments that Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE)-funded agencies are permitted to use to report learner gains. Through a mail survey, the project researched 19 standardized assessment instruments used by agencies for reporting learner…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria
Nagel, Elaine – 1999
For seven years, the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) was the primary standardized assessment instrument used by the adult education program of the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV (MIUIV) of the Pennsylvania Department of Education Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education. While reviewing its current assessment procedures, the MIUIV's…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
