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Christine Cleary – ProQuest LLC, 2024
New teachers are often assigned an experienced teacher who will serve as a mentor that will work with them during the first year of their initial teaching certificate. Although this is a common practice among states, not much guidance exists of what this mentoring should include or what strategies are the most effective. This study was designed to…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Effectiveness, Mentors
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Gayithri Jayathirtha; Deborah Fields; Yasmin Kafai – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Debugging is a challenging yet understudied practice within recent collaborative K-12 physical computing contexts. We examined think-aloud interviews and reflections of seven high school student pairs who debugged researcher-designed buggy electronic textile projects. Objective: We asked: (1) What strategies did student…
Descriptors: High School Students, Problem Solving, Cooperation, Small Group Instruction
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Uttermark, Matthew J.; Mackie, Kenneth R.; Weissert, Carol S.; Artiles, Alexandra – Educational Policy, 2024
For decades, charter schools have been promoted as a panacea for increasing competition in the educational marketplace. Supporters argue that increased choice forces neighboring schools to innovate, while opponents contend that charters "skim" students and funds away from traditional public schools (TPS). We test the two differing views…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Traditional Schools, Competition, Academic Achievement
Shenaille Beckley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted longstanding issues in student achievement in the United States, with only 37% of students from grades 4-12 showing proficiency in math and reading, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The East Coast Charter Authorizer (ECCA), which oversees one of the largest and most diverse…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Charter Schools, Urban Schools
Hanine Mansour-Fakih – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative correlational study explored the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic job factors and overall teacher job satisfaction, focusing on their impact on teacher retention in four California charter schools. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between various intrinsic,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Persistence
Bradlee Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study explores teacher support and persistence in a large virtual charter school in the midwestern part of the United States. Using self-determination theory as a theoretical lens, this study examines how the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness of teachers in a virtual charter school are supported or…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Virtual Schools, Charter Schools, Needs
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Yongmei Ni; Charisse A. Gulosino; Andrea K. Rorrer; Bill Altermatt – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
High school graduation is a meaningful indicator of student achievement and a stronger predictor of long-term quality of life outcomes compared to student test scores. The existing body of research has been limited on whether charter attendance improves high school graduation and whether charter attendance helps narrow the graduation gap among…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Longitudinal Studies
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Amanda Pinkham-Brown – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This narrative study examines a failed attempt to unionise an urban charter school. To investigate why this effort failed, I construct two competing 'stories of the school' -- the discursive narratives each side told about how the school operates, who it serves, and how it fits into a larger battle for educational, racial, and economic justice. I…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Unions, Urban Schools, Neoliberalism
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Brock Hicks; Michael C. Lens – Education and Urban Society, 2025
The meteoric rise in charter schools has several implications for traditional public schools and their students. One understudied implication is the geographic competition for students. Given traditional public school boundaries are often fixed while charter school boundaries are more flexible, charter schools can draw students away from existing…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Competition
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Douglas N. Harris; Matthew F. Larsen – Education Next, 2024
In this article, the authors study family preferences in one of the most competitive school markets ever developed in the United States: New Orleans, where virtually all district students attend a charter school. The vast majority provide transportation from anywhere in the city, and none can charge tuition. Admission is based on parental…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Family Income
Jodene Jensen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the incidence of autism on the rise, it is imperative to identify factors that contribute to education. Despite the accessibility and low cost of public institutions, many parents choose to educate their autistic children in private and charter school settings. This study examined the difference in beliefs among public, private, and charter…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Public Schools, Private Schools
Stephanie Mann Harvard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The integration of educational technology in elementary classrooms has the potential to enhance teaching and learning experiences, provide targeted instruction, and support higher order thinking and differentiation. However, teachers' perceptions and beliefs about technology play a crucial role in determining its successful adoption and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Technology, Student Needs
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Center for Learner Equity, 2024
Collected Biannually since 1968, the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) represents the U.S. Department of Education's most substantial effort to understand data related to students' educational opportunities throughout K-12 schooling, particularly for historically marginalized student populations. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Charter Schools
Allison Galvin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Even with the increase in virtual learning, there remains a stigma that virtual schools are not successfully supporting students based on traditionally lower graduate rates and state assessment data. The problem is statewide educational decision-makers lacked an understanding of the prior academic performance, specifically credit attainment, among…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Public Schools, Charter Schools, High School Students
Rachel L. Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Current research provides little insight into educators' attitudes toward multiracial learners. This lack of insight may impede the unique needs of multiracial learners, universal planning, and professional attitudes of educators. This survey design study addressed that problem by analyzing educators' attitudes in Michigan charter schools. Rooted…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multiracial Persons, Student Characteristics, Charter Schools
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