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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Teacher hiring"”.
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Perceptions Of North Dakota Principals Regarding Teacher Hiring Practices
… research-based professional and personal teacher characteristics when hiring teachers. Additionally, this study sought to determine North Dakota public school principals' perceptions regarding teacher hiring practices - the interviewing and teacher selection process.</p> <p>This study …
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The Elementary School Principal's Influence on Teacher Hiring Practice & Decision Making
<p>In the role of a building principal, the hiring process is among the most critical components of the job, particularly hiring the right people for the right positions. Yet, hiring approaches vary from principal to principal, building to building, district to district. This study surveyed and …
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An Analysis For Change Regarding Teacher Hiring Practices Of Urban Districts
… urban and near urban school districts go about hiring teachers in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The concern about why schools are unable to consistently staff schools rests primarily on the basis that teachers leave challenging schools because of higher class sizes, compensation and student …
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Rethinking the Hiring Practices of a Small Suburban Chicago School District
… from the program evaluation centered on the teacher hiring processes in District 1, a small school district in north suburban Chicago. Following extensive interviews with those who do the hiring in District 1 and a review of relevant literature, recommendations were made to improve an already …
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Effective School District Recruitment Strategies of African American Teachers
… in the number of available minority group teachers to supply America's public school for the past six decades. Several factors were noted for this decline which included better opportunities for minority advancement in other professions, low teacher salaries, the low prestige and status of …
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Analysis of the Hiring Process to Ensure that the Best Teacher Candidate is Selected for a Small Southwestern Pennsylvania School District
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine teacher selection through a survey of the top 100 elementary schools in Pennsylvania and analyzing commercially produced screening tools. In order to hire the most effective teachers, districts must pay attention to the characteristics they desire in a …
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Massachusetts School District responses to standards-based reform : issues of implementation and the impact of the MCAS
… education including, educational spending, teacher hiring, curriculum development, and accountability. The most critical and controversial piece of the legislation was the Massachusetts Curriculum Assessment System, a test of student knowledge of curriculum and standards that was …
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The Governor's Commission On Training America's Teachers: Response From Pennsylvania's Secondary School Principals
… principals in Pennsylvania with respect to teacher preparation. A review of recent education literature clearly supports the understanding that there is a national concern regarding student achievement and its importance in assuring that the United States can maintain its current position of …
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Essays on the economics of education
… strategy for measuring the long-run effects of hiring TFA teachers. Randomized evaluations show that TFA teachers outperform colleagues in boosting achievement at hard-to-staff schools. Despite this cross-sectional evidence, TFA's long-run effects remain unknown, a key concern for policymakers. …
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School choice, school quality, and human capital : three essays
… increased instructional time, selective teacher-hiring, and a focus on traditional skills. In the third chapter, I use data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), a nationwide randomized trial of the Head Start program, to study the relationship between site-level treatment effects and …
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Rural remote school district hiring processes and principals’ preferences for teacher characteristics
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Hiring the Most Effective Teachers: An Examination of Policy and Practice in Pennsylvania
<p>Hiring the most effective teachers not only has an impact on America’s children, but on America’s economic future as well. For two decades, much research about the failings of America’s schools has been conducted. Since the advent of No Child Left Behind (2002), never has more focus been applied …