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Debbie H. Kim; Kelly Krupa Rifelj – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: Promise programs are a quickly spreading policy tool in the free college movement. Despite their rapid spread, promise programs remain generally untested and there is even less information about how they are implemented. Research Questions: (1) In what ways were The Degree Project's (TDP) theory of change and intents represented in…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Practices, Program Implementation, Incentives
Winter, Marcella – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Considered one of the most influential educators in Brazil's history, Anísio Teixeira is one of the renowned Latin American students who came to Teachers College (TC). Teixeira was a prominent reformer and educator known for advocating free, public, and secular education accessible to all children. His work as an educator and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational History, Educational Policy
Hidden Structures: How Knowledge of New Practices Moves among Educators in One Rural School District
Karnopp, Jennifer R. – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background/Context: Rural districts often struggle to provide organizational structures that support knowledge-building and sharing among educators, contributing to the challenge of change implementation in rural contexts. Although prior scholarship identifies social relationships centered on trust as important for fostering educator learning, we…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Organizational Learning, Educational Change
Ng, Jennifer C.; Stull, Donald D.; Martinez, Rebecca S. – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background/Context: In recent decades, federal policymakers have pushed for education to be a more "scientific" endeavor. While scholars have considered the implications of this orientation for educational researchers, less attention has been given to its impact on educational practitioners. Purpose/Focus of the Study: By focusing on the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Change, Change Agents, Interaction
Cannata, Marisa; Nguyen, Tuan D. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: Substantial research on reform implementation highlights numerous challenges to implementing innovations at scale with depth and sustainability, yet new reforms continue to encounter many of the same challenges. This has led to calls for researchers to work in partnership with practitioners to design, implement, and scale educational…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement, Theory Practice Relationship, Cooperative Planning
Graue, Elizabeth; Ryan, Sharon; Wilinski, Bethany; Northey, Kaitlin; Nocera, Amato – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Early childhood education joined the standards movement in 2002 with the Good Start, Grow Smart initiative (Brown, 2007), with advocates arguing that standards were a tool for creating more continuity and coherence in PreK systems (Bowman, 2006; Kagan 2012). Critics posed concerns about a perceived poor fit between…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Federal Programs, Academic Standards
Siskin, Leslie Santee – Teachers College Record, 2016
Building on an expanded concept of mutual adaptation, this chapter explores a distinctive and successful aspect of International Baccalaureate's effort to scale up, as they moved to expand their programs and support services in Title I schools. Based on a three-year, mixed-methods study, it offers a case where we see not only local adaptations…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Program Improvement, Educational Change, Media Adaptation
Calfee, Robert; Wilson, Kathleen M.; Flannery, Brian; Kapinus, Barbara A. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: As implementation of the Common Core Literacy Standards moves ahead, teachers, students, and schools are discovering that the standards demand a great deal of them in order to achieve the vision of college, career, and citizenship in the global-digital world outlined in the standards. To accomplish the goals and high…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Literacy, State Standards, Models
Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Kao, Jenny C.; Rivera, Nichole M.; Chang, Sandy M. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: Testing accommodations have been widely utilized as a way of increasing the validity of content assessments for English language learner (ELL) students. However, concerns have also arisen regarding the appropriateness of accommodation use, including the accessibility and fairness of accommodations. While many states have…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, English Language Learners, Mathematics Tests, High Stakes Tests
Miretzky, Debra; Stevens, Sharon – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: While there is ample evidence that the K-12 student population is becoming increasingly diverse and the teacher workforce is not, very little literature addresses the specific problems rural teacher education programs may experience attempting to meet the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Teacher Education Programs, Rural Schools, Inclusion
Wood, Diane – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: In an era of high stakes accountability, public school districts struggle to improve teaching and learning for all students. As a result, effective professional development approaches for teachers are a high priority. Recently, teachers' learning communities (LCs) have been recommended because successful LCs foster teacher…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Program Effectiveness, Focus Groups, Teacher Role