
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
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Ranks elementary, middle, and high schools -- including public, charter, and private schools -- in the Detroit area by neighborhood, based on reading and math test scores averaged over a three-year period.
August 1970
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Education and Literacy, International Development, Women
Presents adolescent girls' views on the value of education and its impact on their lives, their aspirations, and barriers to long-term change as guidance for targeting interventions to improve self-determination and health, social, and economic outcomes.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: Global

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy, Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Documents the discrimination Roma children face in Czech schools despite a 1997 European Court of Human Rights judgment that the government must redress inequities -- through the plaintiffs' subsequent experiences and those of their children.
August 1970
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Athletics and Sports, Education and Literacy, Health
Based on 2007 California Health Interview Survey data, examines participation in physical education and other physical activity among adolescents ages 12 to 17 by gender and county, and implications for health outcomes. Makes policy recommendations.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California

Analyzes trends in turnover among public school principals in 2001-08 compared with 1987-2001, school-based and personal reasons for the moves, characteristics of their new positions, and the role of school accountability pressures. Examines implications.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Illinois

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy, Health
Summarizes research on the effects of recess, including its benefits as an effective and efficient way to increase the amount of physical activity and enhance academic performance and trends in daily recess by school location and student population.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Designed to help principal preparation programs assess the quality of the training offered, includes "rubrics" (ratings with descriptions of what they mean) on course content and internships as well as a handbook on how to conduct the assessment.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States