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Direct linkJustin Lee Nutter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The role of the school principal is ever expanding in both scope and complexity. School districts must consider how to recruit, develop and retain principals to lead their schools. Principal self-efficacy (PSE) is primal to the leader's overall positive effect on teaching and learning, yet the antecedents of PSE are not fully defined. This…
Descriptors: School Districts, Principals, Administrator Role, Administrator Education
Omoro King – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This mixed-methods study is an evaluation of the Reading Recovery program utilized to support first grade student achievement levels in a small, rural, South Carolina school district. This study utilized both quantitative and qualitative data in order to analyze the perceptions of Reading Recovery teachers, first grade teachers, and principals in…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, School Districts, Rural Areas, Grade 1
Williams, Alfred L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of South Carolina public school superintendents regarding individual and organizational attitudes toward innovation. Specific characteristics of South Carolina public school superintendents and public school districts, including enrollment, poverty level, school report card grades, age,…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Public Schools, Educational Innovation
Download full textCenter for the Study of Education Policy, 2009
Since the days when the country was dotted with one-room schoolhouses, many changes have taken place in school governance and management. In 1940, there were over 117,000 public school districts in the United States. In 2000, there were fewer than 15,000, even though the student population of the country had doubled in that time. While school…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Governance, School Organization, County School Districts
McCormick, Robert; And Others – 1991
This study explores the effects of different methods of selecting school district trustees and the effects of expenditures per pupil on the perceived quality of education. It also examines the success of South Carolina's Education Improvement Act of 1984 (EIA). The dependent variable was the ratio of private school to public school enrollment in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1990
School districts in South Carolina are ranked according to their 1990-91 average daily membership (ADM) from the 15-day attendance and membership report. Ninety-one geographic school districts are represented in addition to Palmetto Unified District, South Carolina Youth Services District, Felton Laboratory School of South Carolina State College,…
Descriptors: Attendance, Average Daily Membership, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
2003
This report examines school district size and organization in South Carolina and their impact on student achievement and fiscal efficiency. A brief overview discusses the history of school district organization since the Civil War, the current distribution of districts across size categories in South Carolina and the nation, variations in school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demography, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Ward-Besser, Gail; Brigman, Sue H. – 1990
Membership projections are presented for South Carolina schools (excluding South Carolina Youth Services, Palmetto Unified, Felton Laboratory School, and South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind) for the period 1991 through 1996. Membership projections are calculated annually using average daily membership (ADM) (enrollment) in conjunction…
Descriptors: Average Daily Membership, Birth Rate, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Waters, Michael S., Ed. – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), Ohio University, 2005
Most of the scholarship and commentary on mathematics education deals with issues of curriculum and instruction; this is understandable in a field logically belonging to the domain of curriculum and instruction. Moreover, issues of teaching and learning are compelling to people who love to learn and teach mathematics. Policy receives shorter…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Policy, Rural Education, Multicultural Education
PDF pending restorationCarruth, Ellen D.; Black, Robert S. – 1987
This guide provides statistical information concerning services to handicapped children provided by the public schools of South Carolina in 1986-87. Statewide data are reported on the number of teachers and students by category of handicapping condition and program model (self-contained, resource room, itinerant, and other). In addition, data for…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Handicap Identification
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1987
This publication is designed to provide users with trends in quantitative facts relevant to public education in South Carolina. Information for the 1985-86 school year is presented along with information beginning with the reference or base year of 1969-70. The reference year may vary due to the availability of data. The data are presented in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedSable, Jennifer; Young, Beth Aronstamm – National Center for Education Statistics, 2003
This publication provides descriptive information about the 100 largest school districts in the United States. Almost one in every four public school students in this nation is served by one of these large districts. They are distinguished from the average district by characteristics, in addition to sheer size, such as pupil-teacher ratios, high…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
