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Special Interest Group Influence in School Districts: Exploring the Impact of Locale
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Michael R. Ford – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
This article explores the research question: How does the nature of interest group influence on school superintendents vary across school district locale/? Utilizing a survey of Wisconsin superintendents, the author tests several hypotheses related to the relationship between school district locale and superintendent perceptions of interest group…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Communities of Practice, Advocacy, Influences
Teacher Evaluation through the Eyes of the Principal: How Individual and School Contexts Shape Perceptions of Practice
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Lavigne, Alyson L.; Olson, Amy M. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
The current study explores how principals (n = 568) experience a new teacher evaluation model under Race to the Top. Findings suggest that principals felt the least confident in their ability to identify teacher behaviors associated with student achievement gains and placed the least value on student achievement data. Evaluation experience…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Selected Factors Contributing to Teacher Job Satisfaction: A Quantitative Investigation Using 2013 TALIS Data
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Wang, Ke; Li, Yeping; Luo, Wen; Zhang, Shuai – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
This study aims to analyze how selected student and school factors may affect teacher job satisfaction, in addition to teacher factors, through multilevel regression and commonality analysis of U.S. data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013. In the overall model of teacher job satisfaction, the factors of low achievers,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Secondary School Teachers, Predictor Variables, Teacher Characteristics
School Improvement and Urban Renewal: The Impact of a Turnaround School's Performance on Real Property Values in Its Surrounding Community
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Jacobson, Stephen L.; Szczesek, Jill – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2013
This study investigates the economic impact of a "turnaround" school on real property values in its surrounding community as related to the argument introduced by Tiebout in 1956 correlating local public goods, in this case school success, to housing-location decision making. Using single-family home sales found on the Multiple Listing System and…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Neighborhoods, Urban Renewal, Educational Improvement
School Security: For Whom and with What Results?
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Servoss, Timothy J.; Finn, Jeremy D. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2014
This study utilized school-level data from several combined national databases to address two questions regarding school security policy: (1) What are the school characteristics related to levels of security? (2) How does security relate to school suspension, dropout, and college attendance rates? Among the predictors of school security, having a…
Descriptors: School Security, School Policy, Institutional Characteristics, College Attendance
Beginning Teachers' Perceptions of Mentoring, Climate, and Leadership: Promoting Retention through a Learning Communities Perspective
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Wynn, Susan R.; Carboni, Lisa Wilson; Patall, Erika A. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2007
Often viewed as a recruitment issue, the teacher shortage is better defined as a retention issue. This three-year study examines teacher retention through a professional learning communities framework. During the first year of data collection, 217 first- and second-year teachers in a small urban school district were surveyed to assess their…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Environment, Mentors, Teacher Persistence