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Download full textMary Eddins; Maja Pehrson; Kevin Burgess; Kate Callahan, Contributor; David Lapp, Contributor; DeQuendre Bertrand, Contributor; Brooke Ruoff, Contributor – Research for Action, 2024
District leaders seeking to close schools often frame decisions as "right-sizing" or "modernizing the footprint" of the district. Historical influences such as population and economic shifts and desegregation during the civil rights era, and more recent factors like deteriorating building conditions, school performance…
Descriptors: School Closing, School Districts, Economically Disadvantaged, African American Students
Shaw-Amoah, Anna; Lapp, David; Kim, Dae – Research for Action, 2020
The scarcity of teachers of color (TOCs) in Pennsylvania has been well-documented. In 2018, Research for Action (RFA) reviewed the literature on the benefits of teachers of color for all students and highlighted barriers, strategies, and initiatives in "Patching the Leaky Pipeline: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers of Color in…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Disproportionate Representation, Public School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Eddins, Mary; Pileggi, Molly – Research for Action, 2021
Teacher mobility, or teacher turnover, has long garnered attention as a critical educational equity gap. This attention is warranted as, within schools, teachers have the single greatest impact on student achievement. The unprecedented interruptions to school-based learning and the trials of navigating remote and hybrid instruction due to the…
Descriptors: Counties, School Districts, Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover
Pierce, Jill C.; Shaw-Amoah, Anna; Lapp, David – Research for Action, 2020
Educators are centrally important in the fight for racial justice and access to high-quality education. This has never been more true than in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the public acknowledges the crucial role that our public school teachers play in the well-being of our children and of our society at large. Yet our teacher workforce is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment
Fontana, Jason; Lapp, David – Research for Action, 2018
Recently, the Pennsylvania Department of Education provided new data for 2016-17 that include the race and gender of the 155,854 teachers in Pennsylvania's public schools. Research for Action (RFA) compiled and cleaned the raw data and is providing, for the first time, a public dataset with the race and gender demographics of each public school,…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Demography, Racial Composition
Stohr, Alison; Fontana, Jason; Lapp, David – Research for Action, 2018
Research shows that exposure to teachers of color has a positive impact on students of all races, and particularly on students of color. Despite these positive effects, only 4% of Pennsylvania's teachers are people of color. This percentage is not only one of the lowest in the nation, but it is also starkly disparate from Pennsylvania's own…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Minority Group Students, Teacher Persistence
Jiang, Jennie Y.; Sporte, Susan E. – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2016
In the fall of 2012, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) instituted a sweeping reform of its teacher evaluation system with the introduction of Recognizing Educators Advancing Chicago's Students (REACH). This report finds teachers with the lowest scores on the REACH Students teacher evaluation system are overrepresented in schools serving the most…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Value Added Models, Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics
