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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Low-Performing School"”.
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Identifying the Competencies Required to be a Highly Effective Leader in a Low-Performing School
… required to be a highly effective leader in a low-performing school. This is a Fall 2013 project that involved district leaders and school-based administrators in one of the largest school districts in Florida. This project is important because if successful, it can directly affect the 25% …
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Four Year Old Kindergarten Should Not Be Optional, But A Necessary Program For Low Performing School Districts
… Early Education (WEEE) Policy outlines a school readiness funding intitative that can help to close the achievement gap in underperforming school districts. Research has shown that students from lower social economic status do not have the same access to high quality early education …
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Factors Impacting Principals' Career Decision Making
… and <em>Race to the Top </em>(2009) identify school leaders as one of the major catalysts to improving academic achievement. Increasing accountability demands call for replacement of the principal when adequate gains in student achievement are not met, yet research indicates that it takes at …
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The Impact of Reading Intervention on Retained Elementary-Age Students
… high rates of retained students, one low-performing school needed to fix the endless cycle of student failure. After implementation of a close reading program, participating students made growth on the state reading test. My main goal was to examine which key elements of this program …
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ME WITHOUT YOU
… in San Bernardino, California. The stories follow the lives of three students in their year of fourth grade at a low performing school. Narrated from these points of view, the collection amplifies the voices of a community wrought with violence, poverty, and crime while also exploring how …
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A Case Study Of: Leadership Practices of the Turnaround Principal
… clear about the student performance results that schools are expected to achieve, they often do not provide schools with much guidance in terms of how to accomplish these objectives. Schools that fail to meet NCLB accountability standards in Virginia are at risk of a plethora of interventions. One …
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The relationship of socio-cultural contextual factors in schools with academic achievement in adolescents of high ability
This study identified school and district level variables relevant to the relationship among advanced academic achievement, as defined by a score of 3, 4, or 5 on at least one Advanced Placement exam, and high school context, opportunities for social support and advanced academics, and district …
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Complicating choice : nuanced portrayals of parental choice decisions
School choice has become a policy solution for families and children attending persistently low performing schools for the past 40 years. Since 1960, choice programs have been expanded with the principal goal of providing opportunities to families and children to attend schools that better align …
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Which of McRel's 21 Leadership Behaviors Contribute to Successful High Schools in Low SES Areas in New Jersey from the Perception of New Jersey High School Teachers
… that impact the perception of teachers in their schools.</p> <p>The purpose of this research study was to examine which specific McRel's 21 leadership behaviors principals utilized as perceived by the teachers in successful high schools in low SES areas in New Jersey. The research study also …
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Circles of Influence: Rational decision-making, strategic positioning, and the formation of charter school clusters in New Jersey
A major focus of charter school research has been the potential impact of increased school choice on student sorting by race/ethnicity and socio-economic status. Researchers have argued that charter schools may increase segregation by allowing families to separate into more homogeneous school …
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UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF CHARTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
… which study unintended effects of charter school programs. Chapter 1 evaluates the influence of charter schools on housing values. The dynamics between school quality and housing markets contribute to the isolation of disadvantaged students in low performing school districts. Charter …
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The implementation of Chinese quality education in the context of the National College/University entrance examination : a case study of two senior secondary schools in Taiyuani city
… unique selective mechanism for senior secondary school students who are 'qualified' to access higher education institutions, the National College/University Entrance Examination (NCEE) in China has contributed significantly to a one-sided pursuit of examination scores and promotion rates by …