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Wells, Lauren Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002 emphasized holding schools accountable for student achievement and academic growth. Accountability was a continued focus as President Obama offered states Race to the Top funding if they included, among other changes, a focus on accountability and identifying low achieving schools. One Midwestern state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Accountability, Reputation
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Rodriguez, Vanessa – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2013
The teaching brain is a dynamic system that is in constant interaction with the learning brain. If we fail to explore the teaching brain we will continue to design educational reform policies that ignore the most important lens in the classroom: the teachers'. Master teachers recognize their perspective and leverage their teaching brains to embody…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Teacher Improvement, Systems Approach
Johnson, Jessica; Kendziora, Kimberly; Osher, David – American Institutes for Research, 2012
The Race to the Top-District (RTT-D) competition asks districts to personalize education for all students in their schools, focusing on classrooms and the relationship between educators and students. To reach this bold goal, the competition calls for providing teachers with "the information, tools, and supports that enable them to meet the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competition, School Districts, Total Quality Management
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2012
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Four More Years: Obama Wins Re-election, Plans to Continue Education Reforms Through Race to the Top, NCLB Waivers;…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, State Standards, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Change
Hughes, Sherick A., Ed.; Berry, Theodorea Regina, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Individuals are living, learning, and teaching by questioning how to address race in a society that consistently prefers to see itself as colorblind, a society claiming to seek a "post-racial" existence. This edited volume offers evidence of the evolving significance of race from a diverse group of male and female contributors…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Bias, Social Bias, Critical Theory