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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Traditional Public Schools"”.
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Factors That Influence Young, Highly-Effective Educators to Leave Traditional Public Schools for Charter Schools
… around the legality and effectiveness of charter schools. Amidst these debates, the number of charter schools has skyrocketed from about one percent of the total percentage of schools to over six percent. This has led to an exodus of young, highly-effective educators from traditional public …
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The Competitive Effect of Vouchers on the Performance of Traditional Public Schools in Hamilton County, Ohio
… of vouchers, is having on the performance of traditional public schools in Hamilton County, Ohio. The threat of losing students to vouchers creates a sense of competition for students, and ultimately the dollars that are attached to them. This competition is relatively new to public education …
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An examination of the effects of school choice on the financial integrity and demographic mix of traditional public schools
… yet expanding use of school choice affects traditional public schools' finances and socioeconomic and racial/ethnic student demographics. This mixed-methods study analyzed traditional public school districts in two Michigan counties in 2009/10 and 2013/14, answering three research questions: …
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Examining Teacher Quality Gaps in the Philadelphia School District
… of teacher quality gaps (TQGs) in charter schools to those present in traditional public schools (TPS) within the Philadelphia School District. No significant difference in TQGs was found to exist when student disadvantage was defined by socioeconomic status and teacher quality was defined …
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A Comparative Analysis of Reading and Math Assessment Scores of Students Attending Three Traditional Elementary Public Schools and Three Elementary Charter Schools In Virginia
Advocates of privatizing education suggest that traditional public schools are not adequately preparing students for college, career readiness, and global citizenship (Lobosco, 2019; Schneider and Berkshire, 2020; Tienken and Mullen, 2016). Charter school supporters believe charter school students …
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The Effects of Centralized School Assignment on Public School Enrollment
… frameworks are especially important today, as traditional public school enrollment as a share of total enrollment has fallen sharply since the pandemic. This paper asks whether and how the design of centralized assignment schemes, such as those used in numerous large urban districts, affects …
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Measuring Educational Gains and Setting Consequences: Charter Schooling and the No Child Left Behind Policy
… and students can opt out of the established public education system. This thesis is an in-depth study of one Pittsburgh charter school within the context of a critique of public education in American history. Empirical data was collected through a triangulated research design, which included …
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PEDAGOGICAL PRAXIS IN AN AGE OF PRIVATIZATION: THE CONTRADICTION OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
… practice in education, specifically in charter schools. The researcher reflects on the historical creation of charter schools to fulfill the needs of struggling students in contrast to a perception of modern charter schools that are more rigorous or specialized.</p> <p>The study includes …
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The Societal Impacts of Private School Choice around the World
… and criminality may be less clear. After all, traditional public schools were created to ensure that children from diverse backgrounds became proper citizens. </p> <p>These three dissertation chapters empirically examine a largely underexplored area: the societal impacts of private school …
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Funneled Into Prison: Race And Behavior Modification At A Mississippi Alternative School
… their white counterparts to be expelled from traditional public schools and sent to an alternative school—an exclusionary disciplinary setting focused on behavior modification. Yet how administrators and faculty supervise students’ behavioral achievement in these settings is seldom examined. …
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Examination of Job Satisfaction for Middle School Teachers in Georgia: Traditional and Charter Schools
… middle school teachers who served in charter and traditional public schools. Based on this research, there was a significant relationship between intrinsic motivation and one other variable (extrinsic motivation). The second research question was designed to determine to what extent extrinsic …
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An Examination of Alternative Educational Leadership
Traditional public-school settings are not meeting the needs of all students. Alternative educational settings have been established for students who struggled in traditional public schools. According to research by Beken et al. (2009); Cotton (2004); and Groves (1998), traditional schools often …
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Leadership and Autonomy: An Examination of the Leadership and Management Practices of Four Charter Schools In Charleston, South Carolina
<p>Charter schools are deregulated institutions that are provided considerable autonomy in order to spur innovation, yet little is known about their governance practices. The studies of charter school governance that do exist, however, typically concern cases of charter school failure. The causes …
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Contradictions and control: Michigan elementary teachers' lived experiences of legislated teacher evaluation
… experiences of Michigan elementary teachers in traditional public schools as they experienced the phenomenon of having their performance evaluated under this state-legislated teacher evaluation policy, to understand the meanings they ascribed to the phenomenon, and to synthesize those meanings …
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Visual Arts Assessment in the Age of Educational Accountability
… art teachers from five districts teaching in traditional public schools at the elementary, middle, and high school levels assess visual art. It demonstrates how they are using information gathered from assessments and whether their philosophies of art education influence their actions. Parents …
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Predictors of practice approaches and activitives of Louisiana school social workers : toward a model of practice
… activities. Findings showed that employment in traditional public schools predicted more use of assessment and evaluation and less use of professional development and supervision, group counseling, classroom groups, and family-based practice. Employment in school-based health clinics predicted …
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Open-enrollment charter school laws and special education: A study of state and local policies in Texas
… practices. It includes a background on charter schools in Texas, a survey report of key special education personnel directly involved with translating policies into practices, and a review of relevant information from the contents of various charter school organizations’ websites. The key …
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A Description of the Influence of NCLB Accountability Mandates on Administrator Job Satisfaction of a Combined Middle-High Principal in Rural Georgia
… and a synopsis of federal involvement in public education. The researcher described research methods utilized in the study providing triangulation to increase trustworthiness. The first three phases created the necessary framework for the researcher to conduct a qualitative study that …
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