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Leadership Roles of Administration under the Common Core Reform
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Mahfouz, Julia; Barkauskas, Nikolaus J.; Sausner, Erica B.; Kornhaber, Mindy L. – Education and Urban Society, 2018
This qualitative study focuses on school administrators' understandings and actions as leaders of the Common Core reform. In interviews with eight school and district leaders from five diverse districts in Pennsylvania, several aspects of Common Core, or PA Core, implementation were consistent across regardless of student population demographics…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Administrator Role, Leadership Role, Common Core State Standards
Evaluation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in Nine Urban Schools: Effective Practices and next Steps
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Black, Sally; Washington, Ericka – ERS Spectrum, 2008
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (BPP) is an internationally recognized school-based bullying prevention program. This project sought to evaluate pilot implementation of the program in one urban district using fidelity of implementation, bullying incident density (BID), student surveys, and serious incident reports as process and outcome…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Bullying, Prevention, At Risk Students
The Administrative Aspects of P.L. 94-142: Dealing with Federal Mandates and Compliances.
Abbruzzese, John A., Jr. – 1980
Although Pennsylvania has long made programming for all handicapped children mandatory, the passage of P.L. 94-142 has necessitated some changes even in this state. The major hurdle in the implementation of such a law is confusion and misinterpretation. Educators fear that the handicapped may be dumped into regular classes in an arbitrary manner.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education