School and District Leaders Talk about Teacher Attrition

Active travel to school: policies and attitudes of school and district leaders.

BACKGROUND When promoting active travel to school, it is important to consider school and district policies as well as attitudes of school and district administrators. METHODS School principals and district officials in South Carolina participated in the School Travel Survey. Frequency distributions and Chi-squared tests were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Three hundred fourteen persons ...

Lessons learned about collaborative evaluation using the Capacity for Applying Project Evaluation (CAPE) framework with school and district leaders.

Schools, districts, and state-level educational organizations are experiencing a great shift in the way they do the business of education. This shift focuses on accountability, specifically through the expectation of the effective utilization of evaluative-focused efforts to guide and support decisions about educational program implementation. In as much, education leaders need specific guidanc...

Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

We are grateful to the New York City Department of Education and the New York State Education Department for the data employed in this paper. We appreciate comments on an earlier draft from Tim Sass, Jonah Rockoff and participants at both the Economics of Teacher Quality Conference at the Australian National University and the New York Federal Reserve Education Policy Workshop. The research is ...

Teacher Leaders: Teaching, Learning and Leading

When theories become practice—a metaphorical analysis of adult-education school-leaders’ talk

Marketization has changed the education system. If we say that education is a market, this transforms the understanding of education and influences how people act. In this paper, adult-education school-leaders’ talk is analysed and seven metaphors for education are found: education as administration, market, matching, democracy, policy work, integration and learning. Exploring empirical metapho...