To provide a contrast to the work on school improvement and innovation in Singapore, this chapter explores the possibilities and challenges for educational innovation in New York City. In doing so, the chapter draws from research on individual and organizational learning to document the evolution of two organizations that have worked to launch…

Local implementation of science reform efforts in part relies on science teacher leaders (STLs) to improve science instruction in classrooms and beyond. The lack of science-specific professional learning resources drives STLs to act as boundary spanners to locate resources outside their local context to fill that gap. Museums and other informal…

The CORE Districts, a nonprofit formed by large urban districts in California, received a Networks for School Improvement grant from the Gates Foundation to launch a network focused on improving ninth-grade on-track rates. CORE based its approach on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Collaborative model, where a hub identifies…

State and local education agencies continue to make an effort to systematically assess school climate through student surveys. These assessments typically collect data from individual students about their perceptions of different components of the school and their relationship to individuals in the school and aggregate those responses to the…

For at least two decades, several California schools have embraced a community schools model that marries schools and community organizations to seamlessly provide a variety of supports to students and families in communities with the highest needs. But when the pandemic hit, those needs multiplied. Members of the California State Board of…

Background: Online collaborative learning has been broadly applied in the field of higher education. Nevertheless, not all types of collaborative learning can produce the desired learning results. Objectives: To facilitate online collaborative learning, the present study proposed an innovative artificial intelligence-enabled group cognitive…

Though researchers have documented the consequences and causes of chronic absenteeism, there is limited empirical evidence about what schools and districts are actually doing to improve attendance. This study presents evidence about the types of attendance practices that forty-seven high-absenteeism districts in Michigan are planning and…

This research aimed to 1) study composition and indicators, and to study current condition and desirable condition of participatory network administration 2) To develop model of network administration with participation for higher quality in early childhood development center. 3) To study the result of model. This research was divided into 3…

Lower reading and literacy skills are endemic in almost all secondary schools. Reasons for decreased literacy skills are numerous and varied, from changes in elementary literacy instructional focuses (whole language versus phonics), the foundational misunderstanding between reading and literacy, and the emergence and overreliance on social media…

School inspections constitute a common instrument of Performance-Based Accountability (PBA) policies but are rarely studied beyond its effects on practices and results. This paper examines inspection from an affective perspective through a qualitative case study of three low-performing schools in Chile, exploring to what extent the emotions and…

This research analyzes the organizational culture of The Connext ED Foundation, a foundation established to develop Thai educational quality enhancement, and its impact on organizational success. Using qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews and content analysis, the study examines executives, employees, and foundation project…

Limited scholarship has examined school districtwide turnaround reforms beyond the first few years of implementation or efforts to replicate successes in new contexts. We studied Massachusetts, home to a state takeover of the Lawrence school district that led to academic gains in early reform years and where state leaders attempted to replicate…

A National Governors Association report urges governors to make schools engines of economic competitiveness through public dashboards that align education with workforce needs. It defines four "readiness" areas--academic skills, job preparation, civic participation, and well-being--yet frames all through an economic lens, proposing…

In addition to identifying crucial areas of lecturers' digital leadership that can be improved to enhance students' various engagement in language learning, the goal of this study is to investigate the relationships between various dimensions of lecturers' digital leadership and students' behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement in language…

Background: Bullying is a public health issue with long-term effects for victims. This study investigated if there was an association between pedagogical and social school climate and student-reported bullying victimization, which dimensions of pedagogical and social school climate were associated with bullying, and if these associations were…