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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Underperforming schools"”.
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Leadership practices by school management teams aimed at enhancing academic performance in underperforming schools of Mopani West District
… form part of Senior Management Teams (SMTs) in schools, and they are held responsible for improving student performance, especially in secondary schools. Little, however, is known about how SMTs use their instructional leadership practices to influence learner performance in secondary schools in …
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District Administrator Perceptions Of Response To Intervention Implementation In K-12 Underperforming Public Schools In Connecticut
… school district administrators working at K-12 underperforming schools implementing response to intervention (RTI). Little was known about district administrators working in Connecticut K-12 underperforming schools’ perceptions of RTI implementation. Data was collected via semi-structured …
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Advocating for the Need of a College and Career Readiness Preparation Accountablity Policy
… proposed policy advocates for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to adopt a College and Career Readiness Preparation Accountability Policy wherein CPS sets district-wide criteria and structures for student college and career readiness at every grade level and ensures that resources and supportive …
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Exploring leadership styles and their influence on academic disparities: a comparative study in high and underperforming public secondary schools Lusaka district, Zambia.
The coexistence of underperforming and high-performing public secondary schools raises critical questions about the factors contributing to the persistent academic performance gap, particularly the role of leadership styles in shaping academic outcomes. Despite various interventions by the …
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Exploring leadership styles and their influence on academic disparities: a comparative study in high and underperforming public secondary schools Lusaka district, Zambia.
The coexistence of underperforming and high-performing public secondary schools raises critical questions about the factors contributing to the persistent academic performance gap, particularly the role of leadership styles in shaping academic outcomes. Despite various interventions by the …
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Characteristics of poor performing schools within Tshinane Circuit in Vhembe District
… in the pass rate with seven out of ten secondary schools performing below the provincial norm. Hence, the circuit was declared dysfunctional. The aim of this research was to investigate the characteristics of poor performing schools within Tshinane Circuit in the Vhembe District of Limpopo …
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Conceptual and Procedural Instruction: Mathematical Teaching Approaches And Strategies In An Urban Middle School
… in mathematics in under resourced urban middle schools. The significance of this study is to develop math instructional skills in urban schools that can help bridge the achievement gap between urban underperforming schools and suburban achieving schools. Urban mathematics educators are …
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Choosing success? Inequalities and opportunities in access to school choice in nine United States districts
Bowles and Gintis (Bowles & Gintis, 1976) dubbed schools as both the testing grounds and battlegrounds where society seeks to achieve equality of opportunity. This statement cannot be more appropriate to describe the debate surrounding the school choice movement over the past three decades that is …
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The Impact and Sustainability of a School Improvement Grant on Student Outcomes in an Elementary Setting
… educational leaders and policymakers who support underperforming schools or are seeking to implement and sustain reform efforts. These findings highlight the need for sustained support to maintain long-term improvement.</p>
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The effects of community school partnerships on students and educators in five urban high schools : a view from the field
… education reform models in order to turn around underperforming schools. One of the newer models that is being implemented across the country is a strategy called community schools. Over the last few years, the number of districts that have started to utilize the community school model has …
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Implementation of annual national assessment in the intermediate phase at King Cetshwayo district schools
… approach. In this case, the Intermediate Phase schools were the main target to select a sample of 75 participants. All these randomly selected educators answered a questionnaire with closed and open-ended questions while five Heads of Departments (HoDs) and five educators were purposively …
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"Parent trigger" Legislation in the United States: A Key to Parent Empowerment in the Local Context
… allows parents with students in persistently underperforming schools to force a change in school governance. Since the passage of the first parent trigger law in California in 2010, three parent petition campaigns have forced a turnaround in school governance. The purpose of this study was to …
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School Closure in New York City
… in favor of simply closing low-performing schools. This movement reflects growing frustration among policymakers with the disappointing effects of previous school improvement policies, and the view that some schools may simply lack the capacity to undertake meaningful improvements. This …
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Leading academies: challenge and complexity: an examination and analysis of the nature and dimensions for successful leadership
… of recruitment to senior leadership positions in schools nationally, has led to serious attention being given to the issue.In 2002 the first City Academy opened and with it a new set of senior educational leadership challenges. The central thesis of this research is that of an examination and …