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Download full textMartin, Katherine – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2013
Common sense and recent research make it clear that schools cannot be successful without strong principals. Strong principals help improve student performance in many ways, from shaping a school's mission and culture to hiring, developing, and retaining its teachers. Even so, principals often get short shrift in today's debates about human capital…
Descriptors: Principals, Rural Schools, Human Capital, Instructional Leadership
Uro, Gabriela; Barrio, Alejandra – Council of the Great City Schools, 2013
English Language Learners (ELLs) are among the fastest-growing demographic group in U.S. public schools. There are numerous recent reports documenting this phenomenon. Some reports estimate the numbers of ELLs enrolled in U.S. public schools, and other reports approximate the growth in ELL enrollment over the past five to ten years. Still, there…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Public Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sutton, Leah – Hunt Institute, 2016
As policymakers endeavor to address the teacher shortage as a whole, they should also consider the research around teacher diversity and explore policies that aim to increase the achievement of minority students. This issue of "coNCepts" examines the diversity gap in North Carolina and highlights the need for a strategic solution that…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Diversity (Faculty), Barriers, Teacher Recruitment
Steiner, Lucy – Public Impact, 2010
The United States' education system needs to take its critical next step: fairly and accurately measuring teacher performance. Successful reforms to teacher pay, career advancement, professional development, retention, and other human capital systems that lead to better student outcomes depend on it. Where can the U.S. find the best-practice…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Competence, Measurement
Ladner, Matthew – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2009
Jeb Bush campaigned for Governor on a clear and bracing set of education reforms in 1998. Having won office, he immediately pursued a dual track strategy of education reform: standards and accountability for public schools, choice options for dissatisfied parents. Florida lawmakers followed these reforms with additional measures, including…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Private Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLivingston, Andrea, Ed.; Wirt, John, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2003
This publication contains a sample of the 44 indicators in "The Condition of Education 2003." The indicators in this publication are numbered sequentially, rather than according to their numbers in the complete edition. The Contents page offers a cross reference between the two publications. Since 1870, the federal government has…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Family Characteristics, Poverty
