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Direct linkGoree, Krystal; Williams, Yolanda; Hamilton, Suzanne; Mathews-Perez, Amy; Talbert, Sandra; Strot, Rick; Barrett, Sara; Bolfing, Darlene; Miller, Sue; Almaguer, Dora; Gilbreath, David; Martinez, Donna; Rubio, Belinda; Ward, Victoria; Edison, Ricky; Henry, Marsha; Mechell, Rebecca; Pritchard, Melissa; Welsh, Kaitlin – School-University Partnerships, 2019
The PDS partnership between Baylor University and Waco Independent School District commenced in 1993 in the context of a national conversation about innovations for improving teacher preparation and practice. During its 25-year history, the partnership has garnered national recognition, with Hillcrest PDS serving as one of 18 representative PDS…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities, School Districts
Odell, Michael R. L.; Kennedy, Teresa J.; Stocks, Eric – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2019
Project/problem-based learning (PBL) can provide an effective model for school reform when implemented with fidelity. In the report, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm," it was recommended that if the U.S. is to remain competitive in the 21st-century economy, there must be a serious effort to "enlarge the pipeline of students who are…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, STEM Education, Educational Change, Models
Ellison, Scott; Aloe, Ariel M. – Educational Policy, 2019
The economic logic of urban school reform holds that giving parents school choice options in an educational marketplace will lead to systemic improvements that will both resolve historical inequalities in American public schooling and will politically empower parents and urban communities. This article explores the economic logic of urban school…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, School Choice, Urban Schools
Carbone, A.; Drew, S.; Ross, B.; Ye, J.; Phelan, L.; Lindsay, K.; Cottman, C. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Challenges to ensuring teaching quality in higher education give ongoing impetus to invest in teaching quality improvement. While a significant body of literature has recognised challenges faced by academics seeking to improve teaching practices, processes for developing constructive responses to identified barriers have attracted less attention.…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, College Faculty
Zawada, Britta – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of a culture of high quality and show how a culture of high or exceptional quality goes beyond the functional apparatus of quality assurance, the so-called props on the stage, to the enactment and ultimately to the shared meaning-making and webs of significance for both the institution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, School Culture, Universities
Strom, Paris S.; Hendon, Kelli L.; Strom, Robert D.; Wang, Chih-Hsuan – School Community Journal, 2019
Improving conditions of learning is a priority for schools, communities, states, and the federal government. Students are the stakeholders with the most to gain or lose and should be consulted about their classroom experiences as a basis for continuous school improvement planning. The population of 461 students from a rural public high school in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, High School Students, Rural Schools, Principals
Lending, Diane; Mitri, Michel; Dillon, Thomas W. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
This paper describes James Madison University's undergraduate major in Computer Information Systems as an example of a high-quality Information Systems (IS) program and discusses our planned evolution in the context of the rapid changes of technological, business, and social factors. We have determined what we consider to be five essential…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Teaching Methods, Integrated Curriculum
Hirsh, Åsa; Segolsson, Mikael – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
The current study reported here is one within a research project aimed at the identification of enabling and constraining factors in a two-year school-development project at a large secondary school in Sweden, where all teaching staff were involved in improving the quality of instruction through collaborative analyses. In this project a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Quality
Hardy, Ian; Reyes, Vincente; Hamid, M. Obaidul – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2019
This paper critiques recent practices in schooling, particularly efforts to enhance student learning outcomes for more performative purposes. Such practices have become increasingly prevalent as part of a broader trend towards results-oriented accountability practices, with concomitant pressures upon teachers and students to achieve particular…
Descriptors: Accountability, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement
Reynolds, Arthur J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Arthur Reynolds describes the significance, development, and effects of preschool to 3rd grade approaches. This school reform strategy integrates services and supports transitions, thereby increasing achievement, sustaining gains, and realistically reducing achievement gaps. Evidence from the Child-Parent Center (CPC) program is reviewed to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Early Childhood Education, Achievement Gap, Instructional Effectiveness
State Responsibilities and Opportunities for School Improvement under the Every Student Succeeds Act
Riley, Derek L.; Meredith, Julie; Butler, Alisha N. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2019
States across the country are urgently building and initiating systems to improve schools, including those identified as low-performing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). With their state ESSA plans approved by the U.S. Department of Education in 2017-2018, state education agencies (SEAs) are moving forward to carry out the vision,…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Government Role, Program Implementation, Educational Improvement
Spillane, James P.; Seelig, Jennifer L.; Blaushild, Naomi; Cohen, David K.; Peurach, Donald – Grantee Submission, 2019
The institutional environment of US school systems has changed considerably over a quarter century as standards and test-based accountability became central ideas in both policy texts and discourses about improving education. We explore how US school systems are managing in this changed environment by focusing on school system leaders'…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Administrator Role, Accountability
Price, Lauren E.; Christian, M.; Stevens, Carla J. – Houston Independent School District, 2019
Since established by an Appropriations Act in 2006, the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) competitive grant program in the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) has supported human capital strategies "to ensure that students attending high-poverty schools have better access to effective teachers and principals, especially in hard-to-staff subject…
Descriptors: Incentive Grants, STEM Education, Program Evaluation, Human Capital
Xiong, Khang Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Through counter-storytelling which is a method of telling the stories of people whose stories are not often told, this qualitative study sought to examine ways in which Hmong youth and their families experience and interpret the use of English in their lives and the ways it affects their use and maintenance of the Hmong language. It also sought to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Sino Tibetan Languages, Language Role, Language Maintenance
Min Sun; Jing Liu; Junmeng Zhu; Zachary LeClair – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
Although program evaluations using rigorous quasi-experimental or experimental designs can inform decisions about whether to continue or terminate a given program, they often have limited ability to reveal the mechanisms by which complex interventions achieve their effects. To illuminate these mechanisms, this paper analyzes novel text data from…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Strategic Planning, Program Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
