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Curran, Michaela; Bloom, Quinn; Brint, Steven – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2020
For U.S. research universities, cluster hiring has become a popular means to add faculty members in university-defined priority fields. The expectation of advocates is that these faculty members will collaborate on high-impact research. Utilizing a national sample of 168 cluster-hire faculty members from eight U.S. research universities, we find…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Cluster Grouping, College Faculty, Researchers
Froman, Terry – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2013
When comparing overall FCAT performance of the District to the State, the Miami-Dade County Public Schools District comes up a little short in Reading and barely higher in Math. However, when the comparisons to the State are confined within the typical subgroup categories, the District meets or exceeds the State's performance in all subgroups.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Rank (Professional), Performance Based Assessment, Cohort Analysis