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Do Teacher Salaries Make a Difference? Tennessee Teachers' Salaries and Student Achievement in the Year 2000.
Miller-Whitehead, Marie – 2000
The 2000 Tennessee School Systems Report Card data for 138 Tennessee public school systems were examined to identify variables that predict student performance in reading, language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, writing, high school competency examinations, attendance, and graduation. The dependent variable was school system grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Prediction, Public Schools
Surviving the Superintendency: What District and State Education Report Cards Can Tell Us.
Miller-Whitehead, Marie – 2003
This study examined Alabama and Tennessee state education report card data for 1998 through 2003. The purpose of the study was to determine whether there were measurable differences in reported accountability indicators between districts that elected and those that appointed superintendents. The study also examined trends in attrition and hiring…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Indicators, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education
High Performing Alabama School Systems: What Do the Best Have in Common?
Miller-Whitehead, Marie – 2000
The Alabama State Department of Education School System Report Card provides annual data for each of Alabama's city and county public school systems, including student achievement indicators on the Stanford Achievement Test, High School Exit exam, writing tests, ACT test, dropouts, ADA expenditures, free and reduced lunch, system revenues, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Educational Equity in Alabama: What We Learned from Report Card 2000. Research Brief.
Miller-Whitehead, Marie – 2001
This study examined Alabama State Education Report Card indicators for the year 2000 to identify predictors of student academic achievement at both the district and school levels for 128 public city and county school systems and 1,272 Alabama public schools. School district performance grade and school performance grade as provided on the Alabama…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
School District Accountability: Let Me Count the Ways. Monograph Series.
Miller-Whitehead, Marie – TVEE Monitor, 2002
The purpose of this study was to examine the state level, district level, and school level education accountability data that were made available on selected State Department of Education Web sites in 2000-2001. The issues of interest were: (1) differences in reported indicators on the education report cards produced in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Content Analysis, Educational Indicators