Download or read book An Analysis of Perceptions of Parents and Teachers on School Quality Compared to School Performance in Higher and Lower Performing Schools Miami Dade County Public Schools Florida written by Yvonne J. John Daniels and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unequal Access Unequal Results written by Sudipti Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the request of the Urban League of Miami, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) analyzed the distribution of teachers in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. In this paper, the authors examine teacher-level data to determine whether indicators correlated with teacher quality vary across the district based on socioeconomic differences, and recommend ways the district can distribute teachers in a more equitable way. The paper--while specific to Miami-Dade County--examines an issue with which school districts across the country struggle. To that end, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has begun collecting data on student enrollment by race and ethnicity and teacher characteristics. The first summary of these data indicates that (1) black students are more likely to be taught by a first-year teacher than white students; (2) their teachers are more likely to be paid less; and (3) they are more likely to have an uncertified or unlicensed teacher. An appendix, "Research base that supports the five indicators used in the report," is included.
Download or read book Leading Educational Change written by Helen Janc Malone and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You won’t find a better book on whole-system change that covers so much ground in such an accessible form than Leading Educational Change!” —From the Foreword by Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE, University of Toronto “This book tackles critical issues and conundrums about how to create productive educational systems by a group of exceptionally knowledgeable thought leaders from the U.S. and around the world. Both policymakers and practitioners will benefit from these valuable insights.” —Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, author of The Flat World and Education “A well-edited and fascinating anthology with a wide variety of prescriptions, from the powerful to the improbable.” —Sir Michael Barber, Chief Education Advisor, Pearson “This book provides exactly what we need at this moment in the education enterprise: clear-eyed and far-reaching analyses from our brightest minds on the problems and potential solutions to delivering better educators and education amid a vastly changing, globally competitive, and interconnected 21st century.” —Gregory A. Patterson, Managing Editor, Phi Delta Kappan Magazine This collection features original essays from international superstars in the field of educational change. Each “think piece” draws on the latest knowledge from research, policy, and practice to provide important insights for creating systemic, meaningful reform. The authors directly address contemporary challenges, misconceptions, and failed strategies, while also offering solutions, ideas, and guiding questions for examination. Unique in its breadth of ideas and diversity of voices, Leading Educational Change is must-reading for education decision makers on all levels, frontline practitioners, and everyone involved with children and adolescent learning. Together with the online companion Instructor’s Guide, this is also a perfect text for educational leadership and policy courses. Contributors: Mel Ainscow, Stephen E. Anderson, Rukmini Banerji, Gabriel Cámara, Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro, Madhav Chavan, Amanda Datnow, Sherry L. Deckman, Lorna Earl, Patrick Griffin, Silvina Gvirtz, Andy Hargreaves, Alma Harris, Jonathan D. Jansen, Elena Lenskaya, Ann Lieberman, Helen Janc Malone, Barry McGaw, Pak Tee Ng, Pasi Sahlberg, Andreas Schleicher, Dennis Shirley, James P. Spillane, Louise Stoll, Esteban Torre, Yong Zhao Helen Janc Malone, Ed.D., is an educational researcher dedicated to connecting research, policy, and practice in support of student learning and positive development. Her work centers on educational change, whole-system reform, expanded learning, and K–16 pathways.
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parent Involvement in Education written by Melanie R. Scott Stein and published by Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive review of parent involvement examines more than 200 studies to identify what research says about attitudes toward parent involvement, how parent involvement is practiced, and how parent involvement affects student achievement. The review also identifies research-based applications educators can use to implement effective parent involvement practices, discusses how schools can involve special populations of parents, and describes common barriers to involving parents and what schools can do to remove those barriers. Chapter 1 gives a brief history of parent involvement and contends that educators need to know if research provides evidence that parent involvement is an effective educational practice. Chapter 2 presents research indicating that educators, parents, and children agree that parent involvement is important, but do not agree on specific aspects of parent involvement. Chapter 3 notes that there is a moderate, positive relationship between parent involvement and student achievement and that parents' expectations of their children's academic achievement have the strongest positive relationship with children's actual achievement level, a robust finding with implications for school-parent relationships. Chapter 4 describes characteristics of strong parent involvement programs, identifies major obstacles to such programs, and discusses the administrator's role in making changes in parent involvement practices. Chapter 5 discusses several ways teachers can provide mechanisms for parent involvement both at school and at home. Chapter 6 examines parent involvement in the context of special populations, barriers to effective parent involvement, cautions about practicing parent involvement, promises for parent involvement, and guidelines for practicing parent involvement. (Contains 207 references.) (KB)
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Matters written by Charles Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teacher Quality Roadmap written by National Council on Teacher Quality and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the request of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) undertook this analysis of the teacher policies in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). A coalition of civil rights groups were also involved in this project, including Parent Organization Network, Families in Schools, Alliance for a Better Community, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Los Angeles Urban League and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This report seeks to shed light on the policies that can improve the quality of the teaching force in LAUSD. This paper explores these policies both as they are written on paper and as they play out in practice. NCTQ frames this analysis around five standards supported by research and best practices from the field for improving teaching quality: (1) Teacher Assignment. District policies facilitate schools' access to top teacher talent; (2) Evaluations. The evaluation of teacher performance plays a critical role in advancing teacher effectiveness; (3) Tenure. Tenure is a meaningful milestone in a teacher's career and advances the district's goal of building a corps of effective teachers; (4) Compensation. Compensation is strategically targeted to attract and reward high quality teachers, especially in hard-to-staff positions; and (5) Work Schedule. Work schedule and attendance policies maximize instruction. (Contains 38 figures and 30 footnotes.).
Download or read book Developing Demand Parents written by Nikolai P. Vitti and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the Academy's instructors recognize the human capital of parents and use this to facilitate discussions during sessions. Instructors valued the opinions and experiences of parents and attempted to create opportunities for parents to learn from one another. These attempts were acknowledged by parents. However, this is not an explicit strategy of the Academy's and does not occur consistently due to a lack of instructor quality and district monitoring. Relationships were developed between parents of similar backgrounds and between instructors and parents. There were also examples of parents from different backgrounds learning from one another during sessions but this did not result in relationships being formed outside the session. At the same time, some parents developed relationships with those of similar backgrounds. The district could leverage these relationships to accelerate the development of demand parents who could then empower other parents to become a force for social change (Warren, 2001). To develop demand parents with more consistency the district would need to control for instructor quality, expand the menu of courses to include issues of race and power, and develop an internal means to mobilize and train cohorts of parent leaders for collective action.
Download or read book A Comparison of Student Perceived and Parents Actual Evaluations expectations in Low S E S Schools with School Achievement Level and Racial Composition Controlled written by Bradley Everton Niles and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broken Compass written by Keith Robinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems like common sense that children do better when parents are actively involved in their schooling. But how well does the evidence stack up? The Broken Compass puts this question to the test in the most thorough scientific investigation to date of how parents across socioeconomic and ethnic groups contribute to the academic performance of K-12 children. The study's surprising discovery is that no clear connection exists between parental involvement and improved student performance. Keith Robinson and Angel Harris assessed over sixty measures of parental participation, at home and in school. Some of the associations they found between socioeconomic status and educational involvement were consistent with past studies. Yet other results ran contrary to previous research and popular perceptions. It is not the case that Hispanic and African American parents are less concerned with education than other ethnic groups--or that "tiger parenting" among Asian Americans gets the desired results. In fact, many low-income parents across a wide spectrum want to be involved in their children's school lives, but they often receive little support from the school system. And for immigrant families, language barriers only worsen the problem. While Robinson and Harris do not wish to discourage parents' interest, they believe that the time has come to seriously reconsider whether greater parental involvement can make much of a dent in the basic problems facing their children's education today. This provocative study challenges some of our most cherished beliefs about the role of family in educational success.
Download or read book Family Life and School Achievement written by Reginald M. Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, stating that the most important indicators of academic potential are embedded in family culture. To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observations on the quality of home life, noting how family habits and interactions affect school success and what characteristics of family life provide children with "school survival skills," a complex of behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that are the essential elements in academic success. Clark's conclusions lead to exciting implications for educational policy. If school achievement is not dependent on family structure or income, parents can learn to inculcate school survival skills in their children. Clark offers specific suggestions and strategies for use by teachers, parents, school administrators, and social service policy makers, but his work will also find an audience in urban anthropology, family studies, and Black studies.
Download or read book Protocols for Professional Learning written by Lois Brown Easton and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides different protocols for facilitating PLC conversations and activities used to to examine student work, explore instructional practice, address problems, or engage your colleagues in discussion.
Download or read book Exploring Perceptions of School Quality written by Michael J. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study conducted in four secondary schools across three years, provides an example of how stakeholder perceptions about school quality might be obtained and analyzed to aid in setting administrative objectives. The participating schools served predominantly Caucasian students in suburban and rural areas. Approximately 30% of students at these schools received free or reduced lunch. Parents, students and school staff were asked to complete the Indicators of School Quality survey, which includes items regarding parent support, teacher excellence, student commitment, school leadership, instructional quality, resource management, and school safety. An average of 1098 parents, 159 teachers, and 3108 students completed surveys each year across the three years. School staff tended to rate their schools more positively on average than parents. Female students, younger students, and students claiming ethnic majority status all tended to rate their schools higher than other students. These results suggest that administrators could benefit from understanding how stakeholders differ in their perceptions of school quality, particularly as they engage in school improvement efforts. ISQ School Learning Environment Items by Respondent Audience is appended. (Contains 6 tables.).
Download or read book Education and Training Policy No More Failures Ten Steps to Equity in Education written by Field Simon and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No More Failures challenges the assumption that there will always be failures and dropouts, those who can’t or won’t make it in school. It provides ten concrete policy measures for reducing school failure and dropout rates.
Download or read book Creating Demand Parents written by Zenub Kakli and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the parental involvement policies and programs of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), the country's fourth largest school district. Through a holistic case research methodology, it explores the multiple perspectives and practices of district- and school-level employees who are charged with involving families in education. Included in the study are the experiences and opinions of parents who participate in district-level forums. M-DCPS serves as a compelling site in which to conduct research on parental involvement, as it has developed a rhetoric about the role families should play in their children's lives and schools. It has created a parent education program, known as the Parent Academy, which reaches thousands of parents through workshops and family learning events. The district also offers opportunities for parents to engage in education matters through district-level advisory councils.
