Dissertation Abstracts International
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 672
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Keeping Good Teachers
Author: Marge Scherer
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2003-12
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1416601007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers suggestions on how to retain good teachers, from strategies for welcoming new teachers to ideas for how to make veteran teachers feel valued.
American Doctoral Dissertations
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 776
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganizing Schools for Improvement
Author: Anthony S. Bryk
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0226078019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1988, the Chicago public school system decentralized, granting parents and communities significant resources and authority to reform their schools in dramatic ways. To track the effects of this bold experiment, the authors of Organizing Schools for Improvement collected a wealth of data on elementary schools in Chicago. Over a seven-year period they identified one hundred elementary schools that had substantially improved—and one hundred that had not. What did the successful schools do to accelerate student learning? The authors of this illuminating book identify a comprehensive set of practices and conditions that were key factors for improvement, including school leadership, the professional capacity of the faculty and staff, and a student-centered learning climate. In addition, they analyze the impact of social dynamics, including crime, critically examining the inextricable link between schools and their communities. Putting their data onto a more human scale, they also chronicle the stories of two neighboring schools with very different trajectories. The lessons gleaned from this groundbreaking study will be invaluable for anyone involved with urban education.
Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy
Author: Helen F. Ladd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-17
Total Pages: 693
ISBN-13: 1135041067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the first edition have been fully updated and revised to reflect current developments, new policies, and recent research. With new chapters on teacher evaluation, alternatives to traditional public schooling, and cost-benefit analysis, this volume provides a readily available current resource for anyone involved in education finance and policy. The Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy traces the evolution of the field from its initial focus on school inputs and revenue sources used to finance these inputs, to a focus on educational outcomes and the larger policies used to achieve them. Chapters show how decision making in school finance inevitably interacts with decisions about governance, accountability, equity, privatization, and other areas of education policy. Because a full understanding of important contemporary issues requires inputs from a variety of perspectives, the Handbook draws on contributors from a number of disciplines. Although many of the chapters cover complex, state-of-the-art empirical research, the authors explain key concepts in language that non-specialists can understand. This comprehensive, balanced, and accessible resource provides a wealth of factual information, data, and wisdom to help educators improve the quality of education in the United States.
Black Female Teachers
Author: Abiola Farinde-Wu
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2017-07-26
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1787144623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important, timely, and provocative book explores the recruitment and retention of Black female teachers in the United States. There are over 3 million public school teachers in the US, African American teachers only comprise approximately 8 percent of the workforce. Contributions consider the implicit nuances that these teachers experience.
Invitational Education
Author: John M. Novak
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on means of communication used in the classroom by which teachers inform students of their progress and achievement.
Building Models for Marketing Decisions
Author: Peter S.H. Leeflang
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 146154050X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about marketing models and the process of model building. Our primary focus is on models that can be used by managers to support marketing decisions. It has long been known that simple models usually outperform judgments in predicting outcomes in a wide variety of contexts. For example, models of judgments tend to provide better forecasts of the outcomes than the judgments themselves (because the model eliminates the noise in judgments). And since judgments never fully reflect the complexities of the many forces that influence outcomes, it is easy to see why models of actual outcomes should be very attractive to (marketing) decision makers. Thus, appropriately constructed models can provide insights about structural relations between marketing variables. Since models explicate the relations, both the process of model building and the model that ultimately results can improve the quality of marketing decisions. Managers often use rules of thumb for decisions. For example, a brand manager will have defined a specific set of alternative brands as the competitive set within a product category. Usually this set is based on perceived similarities in brand characteristics, advertising messages, etc. If a new marketing initiative occurs for one of the other brands, the brand manager will have a strong inclination to react. The reaction is partly based on the manager's desire to maintain some competitive parity in the mar keting variables.
Teacher Attrition and Mobility
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) is a one-year follow-up of a sample of approximately 8,400 teachers who were originally selected for the teacher component in the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). This report examines the characteristics of teachers who left the teaching profession between the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 school years (leavers), teachers who continued teaching but changed schools (movers), and teachers who continued teaching in the same school in 2000-01 (stayers).
