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Schneider, Jack; Jacobsen, Rebecca; White, Rachel S.; Gehlbach, Hunter – Teachers College Record, 2018
Purpose/Objective: Under the reauthorized Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states and districts retain greater discretion over the measures included in school quality report cards. Moreover, ESSA now requires states to expand their measurement efforts to address factors like school climate. This shift toward more comprehensive measures of school…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Stakeholders, Educational Quality
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Hutchison, Amy C.; Woodward, Lindsay – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background: Presently, models of professional development aimed at supporting teachers' technology integration efforts are often short and decontextualized. With many schools across the country utilizing standards that require students to engage with digital tools, a situative model that supports building teachers' knowledge within their…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Faculty Development
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Young, Viki; House, Ann; Sherer, David; Singleton, Corinne; Wang, Haiwen; Klopfenstein, Kristin – Teachers College Record, 2016
This chapter presents a case study of scaling up the T-STEM initiative in Texas. Data come from the four-year longitudinal evaluation of the Texas High School Project (THSP). The evaluation studied the implementation and impact of T-STEM and the other THSP reforms using a mixed-methods design, including qualitative case studies; principal,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Case Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Quasiexperimental Design
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Kaimal, Girija; Jordan, Will J. – Teachers College Record, 2016
Context: Policymakers have increasingly advocated for incentive-based approaches for improving urban schools. Purpose of the study: Few studies have examined the implementation of incentive based approaches in the urban charter school context. This paper presents research findings from a 4-year longitudinal study of the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Incentives, Teacher Competencies
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Smith, Thomas M.; Cannata, Marisa; Haynes, Katherine Taylor – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Mixed methods research conveys multiple advantages to the study of complex phenomena and large organizations or systems. The benefits are derived from drawing on the strengths of qualitative methods to answer questions about how and why a phenomenon occurs and those of quantitative methods to examine how often a phenomenon…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, School Effectiveness, High Schools, Best Practices
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Gehlbach, Hunter; Brinkworth, Maureen E.; Wang, Ming-Te – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: A growing literature describes multiple benefits of social perspective taking--many of which are particularly important for schools. Despite these potential benefits for administrators, counselors, teachers, and students, little is known about social perspective taking as a process. Purpose/Research Question: If educational…
Descriptors: Motivation, Perspective Taking, Social Cognition, Adults