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Hyslop, Anne – New America, 2013
After years of contesting that No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was broken and that it forced them to identify too many schools, or the wrong schools, for improvement, over forty states have been granted waivers from the U.S. Department of Education. These waivers give them the flexibility to design new accountability and improvement schemes rather…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Compliance (Legal)
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Noppe, Rene; Yager, Stuart; Webb, Carol; Sheng, Bridget – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the decision-making and problem-solving approaches most frequently used by school superintendents in two mid-western states when confronted with district dilemmas. The research replicated a study conducted by Polka, Litchka, Caizi, Denig and Mete (2011) in five Mid-Atlantic states. The survey used in both…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Administrator Attitudes, Superintendents, School Districts