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Download full textRegional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
The Texas Education Agency offers grants for districts to implement school turnaround strategies at low-performing schools. Districts that receive these grants can implement a school turnaround strategy (referred to as a district-managed restart strategy) that includes replacing principals and teachers at schools that the district identifies as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Change, School Districts, Grants
Hendra, Richard; Dillman, Keri-Nicole; Hamilton, Gayle; Lundquist, Erika; Martinson, Karin; Wavelet, Melissa – MDRC, 2010
Research completed since the 1980s has yielded substantial knowledge about how to help welfare recipients and other low-income individuals prepare for and find jobs. Many participants in these successful job preparation and placement programs, however, ended up in unstable, low-paying jobs, and little was known about how to effectively help them…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Welfare Recipients, Low Income Groups, Unwed Mothers
Glazerman, Steven; Seifullah, Allison – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
In 2007, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) began implementing a schoolwide reform called the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) using funds from the federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) and private foundations. Under the TAP model, teachers can earn extra pay and responsibilities through promotion to mentor or master teacher as well as annual…
Descriptors: Teacher Promotion, Mentors, Academic Achievement, Teacher Motivation
Glazerman, Steven; McKie, Allison; Carey, Nancy – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2009
The Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) was developed in the late 1990s by the Milken Family Foundation as a schoolwide policy to improve schools by raising teacher quality. Under the TAP model, teachers can earn extra pay and responsibilities through promotion to Mentor or Master Teacher and can earn annual performance bonuses based on a…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Promotion, Mentors
Glazerman, Steven; Isenberg, Eric; Dolfin, Sarah; Bleeker, Martha; Johnson, Amy; Grider, Mary; Jacobus, Matthew – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
In 2004, the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct a large-scale evaluation of comprehensive teacher induction. The purpose of the study was to determine whether augmenting the set of services districts usually provide to support beginning teachers with a more…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Randomized Controlled Trials, Beginning Teachers, Program Effectiveness
Martinson, Karin; Hendra, Richard – MDRC, 2006
This report presents an assessment of the implementation and the two-year impacts of a program in Texas that aimed to promote job placement, employment retention, and advancement among applicants and recipients to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The program in Texas is part of the Employment Retention and Advancement…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Labor Market, Job Placement, Human Services
Direct linkSpringer, Matthew G.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Taylor, Lori L.; Lopez, Omar S.; Peng, Art – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
The Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program was federally- and state-funded and provided three-year grants to schools to design and implement performance pay plans from the 2005-06 to 2007-08 school years. GEEG was implemented in 99 high poverty, high performing Texas public schools. This report builds on the previous GEEG evaluation…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, State Aid, Poverty, Teacher Characteristics
Garcia, Federico E.; Joy, Ernest H.; Reese, David L. – 1998
The Navy's Voluntary Education (VOLED) program provides off-duty sailors seeking to enhance their professional and personal growth with educational opportunities integrating various continuing education. VOLED's four major components are tuition assistance, the Program for Afloat College Education (PACE), academic skills learning centers, and…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Cost Effectiveness, Higher Education, Labor Turnover
Minnesota Department of Education, 2005
In compliance with Minnesota Statute 127A.05, Subdivision 6, the Educator Licensing and Teacher Quality Division of the Minnesota Department of Education contacted all public school districts and charter schools in December 2004 and January 2005 in an attempt to determine how school districts and charter schools were succeeding in staffing the…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, School Districts, Charter Schools, Employment Patterns
