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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"K-12 public education"”.
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Perceptions of Leader Humility Practice in Managing K-12 Public Education Conflict
… leader humility in managing conflict within a K—12 public school district in New Mexico. The aim was to create an evidence-based solution for identifying how leader humility could be practiced in situations requiring conflict management in a K—12 public school setting. Using a grounded theory …
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Primary influencers of Indiana K-12 public educational decisions and methods of influencing : a Delphi technique
… persons who had primarily influenced selected educational decisions made in Indiana between January 1, 1982 an December 31, 1985 and to develop a composite profile of the personal characteristics of the primary influentials. Further purposes were to identify sources of power and methods …
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The Underrepresentation of Hispanic Female Educational Leaders and Their Perceived Barriers
… 15 Hispanic women who were current or aspiring educational leaders or employed in K-12 public education. This research highlights the underrepresentation of Hispanic female leaders in American K-12 schools compared to that of Hispanic students, the fastest growing minority population in the …
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An Analysis of Early Career Educator Experiences and the Impact of Teacher Recruitment Initiatives, Induction Programs, and Retention Efforts in One School District
<p>The K-12 public education system faces a teacher shortage dilemma of unprecedented proportions. At the onset of the school year, out-of-field teachers, underqualified teachers, or long-term substitutes often fill instructional vacancies, causing many students to begin the school year with …
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Teacher Retention In Brevard County, Florida K-12 Schools
… job satisfaction and retention within the K-12 public education system. The population of the study was 1321 certified teachers from a large Central Florida school district. The researcher developed the survey instrument based on the constructs of teaching known for motivating teachers to …
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Factors affecting teacher retention in a local school district.
… rates of teacher turnover. The position-based K-12 public education system in the United States has a high teacher turnover rate that ranges from eight to 16 percent annually. In America, teacher turnover is greatest in southern urban and suburban K-12 public school districts. Furthermore, …
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Supporting epistemic justice through institutional student agency: district leaders’ conceptions of shared power
… for historically marginalized students in K-12 public education. This study sought to understand the potential for and barriers to enacting district-level policy and practice aimed at supporting epistemic justice through building institutional student agency. The notion of supporting …
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Emerging 21st-Century Educational Challenges and Opportunities: An Appreciative Inquiry of Public Education In The U.S. Virgin Islands
… the critical challenges and opportunities in K–12 public education in the U.S. Virgins Islands (USVI). Specifically, this study sought to understand the USVI education leaders’ experiences in their public education system as a whole, the challenges and opportunities they faced, their perceptions …
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Troubling Settler Education in Ontario: The Challenges of Policy, Curriculum and Teachers
… violence, poverty, and lack of health and education services facing Indigenous peoples in Canada, many Canadians remain deeply ignorant of Canada’s past and present colonial systems. Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders have identified this ignorance as a significant barrier to building …
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A Delayed Birth of Freedom? Public School Graduates' Perceptions of School Choice Viewed through the Pragmatic Lenses of the American Ideal
This study was conducted to identify public school graduates perceptions regarding school choice options and their preparedness for success after high school. This is accomplished by presenting a historical and contextual overview of education as it specifically relates to low socioeconomic and …
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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… with a central theme on Hispanic inflows and public goods provision. The first paper investigates how Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household for …
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Examining The Costs Of Providing An Adequate Education For Michigan's K-12 Public School Students
… <p>EXAMINING THE COSTS OF PROVIDING AN ADEQUATE EDUCATION </p> <p>FOR MICHIGAN'S K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS</p> <p>by</p> <p>SEAN WIGHTMAN</p> <p>February 2014</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Michael F. Addonizio</p> <p>Major: Educational Leadership and Policy Studies</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> …
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Autoethnographic Exploration: A Native Non-Native in the World of Learners with Hidden Visual Impairments
… liminal spaces between family relations, public education, and economic dimensions that shape academic and pedagogic-professional practices. As an able-bodied sighted individual, I can never fully capture all of the personal struggles that people with visual impairments encounter. …
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Surviving and thriving : a qualitative single case study of Black male teachers’ resilience navigating systemic barriers and sustaining commitment to the teaching profession.
… remain significantly underrepresented in K–12 public schools across the United States, comprising only 1.3% of the teaching profession (National Teacher & Principal Survey, 2023, para.5). This underrepresentation reflects persistent systemic barriers that impede both the recruitment and …
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Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education
<p>The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of how faculty view Cloud-based computing, how they perceive issues of privacy, security, and trust when using Cloud-based systems in schools, and what differences, if any, exist between their at home use of Cloud-based computer systems …
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Implementation of Local Control Accountability Plans in a Geographically Diverse Sample of K-12 California Public School Districts: The Impact on the Classroom and Parent Input in the Process
<p>The Local Control Funding Formula, executed in part through the Local Control and Accountability Plans, allows California school districts to allocate funds based on their needs as identified through goals and action items. This research project sheds light on the extent to which the funds have …
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Implementing Change: A Case Study of Adaptive Leadership
… in cohort one of the Arkansas Department of Education Professional Learning Communities Project.</p> <p>The results indicated that when professional learning communities are only partially implemented, the components implemented are typically technical or structural and do not result in …
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Hire and Hope: An exploration of principal turnover
… between principal turnover within K-12 public schools in the State of Texas, and demographic characteristics of school location, principal’s ethnicity, principal’s gender, and principal’s level of post-secondary degree. Data for participating schools was gathered from state-reported …