Describes how the Montreal Island School Commission, through its five school boards, with a budget of $124 million over 27 years, has greatly improved school success rates in disadvantaged communities. The Commission acted under the authority of Article 430 of the Public Education Act to ensure that disadvantaged areas receive special attention.…

Reading First, a program under the No Child Left Behind Act, is intended to bring research-based reading instruction to struggling schools through the awarding of grants. In an audit of New York's Reading First plan, investigators concluded that the state erred in awarding grants to eight districts and a charter school that did not meet the…

This article shares findings from an exploratory case study about an advanced school leadership development program designed specifically for practicing principals and administrator-trained teachers. The program was designed to help a high-need rural district transform its principalship from school management into learner-center leadership while…

Over the last three decades 45 states have been confronted with school finance lawsuits. This phenomenon has led to a proliferation of school funding equity studies. However, to date, most studies of the equity of state school finance systems have focused on differences in expenditures between school districts. More recent research has found…

This article examines how the interdistrict transfer of White students from a majority-Latino school to a majority-White school increased school segregation in a small California town. The article argues that White parents' decisions to transfer their children, coupled with the sending school district's decision to allow the transfers, constituted…

This study uses multivariate analysis of a large panel dataset to examine the determinants of principal retention (and, thus, the determinants of attracting a principal away from her current position). The empirical model incorporates measures of a principal's traits and of the organizational structure, culture, and situational context within a…

Urban schools today face numerous challenges. Urban poverty; high mobility in and out of neighborhoods; schools with inadequate funding to cover the educational, social, and health needs of urban children and their families; and high teacher turnover are just a few of the vital issues that call for partnerships with communities, service agencies,…

A shortage of quality teachers in high-risk urban schools has compelled school leaders to examine innovative methods of recruiting and retaining new teachers to hard-to-staff campuses. Principals must work aggressively to attract new teachers to their campuses by forming university partnerships for early recruitment, and initiating on the job…

This study explored the effects of "Reading Mastery Plus" in grades K-2 at a Title 1 school with six students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Two students in each of grades kindergarten, 1, and 2 participated. "Diagnostic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)" spring fluency probes were used…

TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR TEACHING IN URBAN SCHOOLS, 27 SELECTED SENIOR STUDENTS FROM ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE MIDWEST (ACM) SPENT 16 WEEKS (BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER 1964) OBSERVING, TEACHING, AND STUDYING IN CHICAGO. THE FIRST 8 WEEKS WERE SPENT IN AN AVERAGE SOCIOECONOMIC-LEVEL SCHOOL AND THE FINAL 8 WEEKS IN A DISADVANTAGED SCHOOL. THE STUDENTS…

This Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I project was developed in order to provide educationally enriching experiences to New York City elementary school students in disadvantaged non-public schools by means of field trips to places of civic and cultural interest. The 182 schools chosen were in designated poverty areas. Evaluation of…

The framework the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) lays out is that of quantifiably examining school performance and intervening in inverse proportion to success. Discusses five key challenges policymakers and educators must overcome to make the federal law work. (Author/MLF)

Descriptive study a New Millennium High School in Florida, involving the restructuring of the instructional program of a low-performing school through the integration of academics with career education. (Contains 39 references.) (PKP)

Discusses the problem of developing educational programs in a province in which one-third of the population is composed of minority nationalities and whose population is both economically and culturally backward. Describes efforts to develop such programs. Concludes that minority programs are dependent upon producing teachers from local areas. (KO)