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Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor
Proposes interest-based collective bargaining, as opposed to traditional adversarial negotiations, and empowering teachers, staff, and principals as a way to enable unions to play a critical role in improving education and closing the achievement gap.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Northeastern)-Massachusetts
Community and Economic Development, Education and Literacy, Parenting and Families
Based on focus groups with parents, explores why school turnaround options such as closing failing schools and replacing principals and staff provoke community opposition. Outlines ways for leaders to build trust, address concerns, and engage parents.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy
Outlines discussions about the potential and challenges of competency-based learning in transforming the current time-based system, including issues of accountability, equity, personalization, and aligning policy and practice. Includes case summaries.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy
Examines policy, information, and cultural barriers that minimize the "demand pull" for educational innovation. Calls for encouraging early adopters, bolstering smart adoption, providing better information, and rewarding productivity improvements.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy
Analyzes how teacher and school characteristics - including demographics, quality and qualification, specialty, school type (public, magnet, charter) and size, academic climate, and teacher-student racial match - influence teacher turnover.
August 1970
Geographic Focus:
Education and Literacy
Reviews the implementation of a schoolwide reform model that offers teachers incentives to improve student achievement and classroom performance. Examines its impact on student test scores and on teacher retention within schools.
August 1970
Geographic Focus:
Education and Literacy, Government Reform
Outlines early findings about the the revamped School Improvement Grant program's impact on states and three approaches to evaluating district and school grant applications, including the use of external reviewers and cutoff scores. Makes recommendations.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Illinois, North America-United States (Southern)-Louisiana, North America-United States (Northeastern)-Vermont
Education and Literacy
Analyzes Race to the Top-funded states' plans to help improve teacher quality by adopting stricter accountability mechanisms for teacher education programs and expanding effective programs. Outlines challenges and policy suggestions for maximizing impact.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
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