NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Assessments and Surveys
National Assessment of…12
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 80 results Save | Export
Sharon Greenberg; Anthony S. Bryk – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Districts are struggling to accelerate students' learning, support their health and wellness, and close the achievement gap. Labeled "worst" in 1987, by 2017 Chicago Public Schools was among the nation's most improved school systems. Chicago's story embeds many lessons about system change. Sharon Greenberg and Anthony S. Bryk illustrate…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Systems Approach, Capacity Building
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Moore, JaDora Sailes; Phelps, Chavez – Improving Schools, 2021
Despite progress over the past decade in math and reading, proficiency scores of African American boys continue to trail behind those of White, Latino, and Asian male counterparts. African American boys' reading and math disparities have been attributed to the negative portrayal and the pervasive deficit-oriented discourse about these young men.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Academic Achievement, Culturally Relevant Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Shaked, Haim; Schechter, Chen – Journal of School Administration Research and Development, 2019
Systems thinking involves attempts to understand and improve complex systems, examines systems holistically, and focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate. This essay provides examples of how systems thinking can enable principals to demonstrate instructional leadership and nurture learning-focused schools in the current era…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Curriculum Development
Hayes, Susan; Meinders, Dona; Rosborough, Jana – National Center for Systemic Improvement at WestEd, 2018
The Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) aims to increase the number of students with disabilities who achieve positive post-school outcomes and engage in higher education or competitive employment opportunities. Through their State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) and State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG), Alabama is focusing on…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Systems Approach, Change Strategies, Disabilities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bombaugh, Michelle; Miller, Thomas E. – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2019
As performance-based funding models have become the new norm for allocating state funds, universities have begun to focus more on meeting and exceeding persistence and graduation metrics. For those universities that have already made substantial gains in these metrics by implementing changes that address large populations of students, attaining…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, School Holding Power, Public Colleges, Educational Finance
Nanmathi Manian – National Comprehensive Center, 2021
Addressing the surge in mental health and social and emotional needs of students and staff will be critical in the upcoming years. The increased understanding of the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma, and their negative effects on the social, emotional, and academic success of students, has propelled a growing number of…
Descriptors: Trauma, Mental Health, Health Needs, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Milligan, Charles – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Achievement scores drive much of the effort in today's accountability system, however, there is much more that occurs in every school, every day. School Centered Evidence Based Accountability can be used from micro to macro giving School Boards and Administration a process for monitoring the results of the entire school operation effectively and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evidence, School Based Management, Systems Approach
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Crawford, Brittany F.; Snyder, Kate E.; Adelson, Jill L. – High Ability Studies, 2020
For the past several decades, issues such as underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minority students in gifted programming, as well as the widening of the existing achievement gap between specific minority and majority groups have persisted. The majority of gifted education researchers studying underrepresentation in gifted programming focus on…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Gifted, Minority Group Students, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stewart, Vivien – Educational Leadership, 2013
"Great teachers and school leaders hold the key to America's children getting a first-rate education, but we do a spotty job of preparing them." Citing these words of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Vivien Stewart plunges into a fascinating account of how top-performing countries are developing strong school leaders. While…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kelly, Thomas F. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2012
This paper presents a systems approach based on the work of W. Edwards Deming to system wide, high impact staff development. Deming has pointed out the significance of structure in systems. By restructuring the process of staff development we can bring about cost effective improvement of the whole system. We can improve student achievement while…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Organizational Change, Systems Approach, Cost Effectiveness
Frank, Stephen; Hovey, Don – Education Resource Strategies, 2014
Recently, there has been growing interest in adapting Return-on-Investment thinking to education--sometimes called educational productivity, or academic-ROI. Education leaders do not seek a monetary return on their spending, rather greater student learning, or other outcomes like student citizenship, higher graduation rates, or increased lifetime…
Descriptors: Investment, Outcomes of Education, Educational Strategies, Systems Approach
Moore, Carol A.; Wilks, Karrin E. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Driven by external pressure for increased accountability and internal pressure for improved learning outcomes, colleges across the country have been developing and refining assessment systems for several decades. In some cases, assessment results have significant positive impact. In other cases, the results have little impact, are not seen as…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Program Improvement, Educational Assessment, Systems Approach
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Dockery, Donna J. – Journal of School Counseling, 2012
School counselors are expected to develop programs that promote academic success for all students, including those at risk for dropping out of school. Knowledge of key indicators of potential dropouts and current trends in dropout prevention research may assist school counselors in better understanding this complex issue. Implementing recommended…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Counselors, Academic Achievement, Risk
Fairchild, Susan; Carrino, Gerard; Gunton, Brad; Soderquist, Chris; Hsiao, Andrew; Donohue, Beverly; Farrell, Timothy – New Visions for Public Schools, 2012
New Visions for Public Schools has leveraged student-level data to help schools identify at-risk students, designed metrics to capture student progress toward graduation, developed data tools and reports that visualize student progress at different levels of aggregation for different audiences, and implemented real-time data systems for educators.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Data Analysis, Identification, At Risk Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Schmid, Dale – Journal of Dance Education, 2012
This article describes how using raw data and information from reliable assessments can inform teachers' decisions leading to improved instruction. The primary aim is to use a systems approach to provide evidence of what students know and how they demonstrate mastery. Such evidence can empower teachers to reach all students. The pedagogic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Best Practices, Data Analysis
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6