Over the past 30 years, the charter school movement has become a significant factor in U.S. public education. Charter schools were originally designed to be alternative public schools that would allow for greater experimentation and innovation within the public school system. As the number of charter schools has expanded to more than 7,000…

There is considerable debate and evidence about how governments should regulate contractors and other firms, but little on how government should regulate schools. In the first phase of this study, we focus on the correlation between indices of state charter school policies and measures of charter quantity (market share) and three measures of…

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine effective practices of school administrators. Specifically, what leader practices positively affect the instructional capacity of a school? Through teacher interviews, I identified practices school principals can use to assist teachers and improve instructional capacity in schools. As the leader of a…

Local education agencies encountered obstacles when attempting to support students' academic success without discriminating against them based on their identities. Educational institutions benefited from this research because it encouraged educators to foster cultural self-efficacy among their students. The Culturally Relevant Teacher…

Purpose: Despite the school organizational culture broad literature, there is still a gap on culture and educational management, mainly in the public environment. To fill out this space, this article wants to point out the cultural factors that creates school management change in the Brazilian public school context. Design/methodology/approach:…

There is growing concern that some nonprofit public service providers may be nonprofit in name but not in fact. We consider this concern in the context of nonprofit charter schools, which sometimes subcontract their daily operations to for-profit management organizations. We use unique data from Ohio to study how nonprofit charter schools'…

School districts have long used standardized test scores to measure and report on school quality, but surveys of school climate and student engagement have recently been used to predict long-term gains in students' educational attainment. A new working paper, "Putting School Surveys to the Test," explores the links between school effects…

South African schools in poor communities are facing a crisis of inefficiency and inequality. The failure of the present education schooling system to address the needs of the majority of local communities requires a reimagining of the concept and function of schools. We posit that to adequately address the current education realities in the…

This research focused on the academic year of a preschool teacher in a school that was considered to have a bad management approach. As narrative researchers, we acquired stories about the teacher's experiences by using various narrative approaches such as long-term participant observations at the school, document reviews, and interviews with…

This study examines how ethical leadership influences school effectiveness via the mediating role of affective commitment and job satisfaction. For this purpose, 306 teachers completed measures of ethical leadership, affective commitment, job satisfaction, and school effectiveness. The results supported the hypothesized positive links of ethical…

Despite conditions that would work against a small and rural school in an impoverish rural area of the United States, Fairway Elementary School has managed to excel in its accountability measures. Through interviews with faculty, staff, teachers, students, and parents of children at Fairway Elementary School a model was developed through the lens…

Purpose: Identify some of the most relevant factors that trigger a private school's workforce to foster a sustainable competitive advantage by reinforcing the intrinsic job satisfaction and the levels of teacher self-efficacy, engagement and job performance. Design/methodology/approach: Surveys were applied to private school teachers to assess…

Since the Ronald Reagan era, the conservative K-12 education agenda has centered on two ideas: choice and accountability. The time has come for conservatives to rethink how to put these principles into practice. Initially, "choice" meant school vouchers, and "accountability" meant standards and high-stakes testing. Rather than…

The main aim of efforts to improve teaching is to create conditions that are more supportive of student learning and social development. The most tangible output of teaching activities occurs during the teaching activities conducted in the classroom environment. It is therefore reasonable to focus on what happens in the classroom to improve…

The study results revealed no statistically significant difference in teachers' perceptions of principals' technological leadership and school effectiveness in terms of teachers' gender, seniority, branch, working time at the current school, technological competence, and daily technology use. However, the findings showed a significant difference…