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Joycelyn M. Wesley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In many educational systems across the world, teacher attrition has become a major problem. As the student population in America continues to grow, one problem plaguing policymakers and school districts is staffing schools with quality educators. This national shortage of educators has been plaguing the United States for almost a decade. It brings…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Motivation
Kathryn N. Rusnak – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study focuses on the impact of neoliberal education reform on an urban charter school serving students of Color. This study has two main objectives: to examine how neoliberal reform influences the goal-oriented actions of data meetings (DMs) in an urban elementary school and engages in a formative intervention methodology to…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Charter Schools
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Sarah Baker-Cano – English in Texas, 2024
Professional learning should be designed in a way that is responsive to the needs of teachers and intentionally planned with adult learning principles in mind. This article outlines one practitioner's professional journey to redefine how professional learning is designed with best practices in adult learning in mind. Strategies utilized during…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Empowerment, Best Practices, Adult Learning
David Lapp; Anna Shaw-Amoah – Research for Action, 2024
This PACER brief provides RFA's updated analysis of data on students experiencing homelessness in Pennsylvania, highlighting prevalence, challenges with identification, disparities in educational opportunities, and impact on academic outcomes. Our main findings include that: (1) Roughly 2% of students in Pennsylvania were identified as…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Incidence, Access to Education, Barriers
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Elizabeth K. Jeffers; Adrienne D. Dixson – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
Education research has often overlooked how the long durée of resistance for Black education has shaped current educational policy. We complicate notions of Black public school closures in two case studies from extensive ethnographic research in post-Katrina New Orleans through our reading of the plantation. Findings suggest these institutions…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, Minority Serving Institutions, African Americans
Curtis F. Lawrence Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative action research study was conducted within a multi-state Title I, K-12 public charter school organization with the purpose of identifying challenges and potential solutions for expansion of The Network into states beyond the state of origin and to determine the impact of a leadership development course on leaders within The…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Federal Programs, Low Income
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Feng Chen; Douglas N. Harris; Mary Penn – Grantee Submission, 2024
Research on charter schools tends to focus on direct and immediate effects on student outcomes. However, there may be unintended indirect effects on, for example, the teacher labor market. Charter schools tend to hire teachers with fewer traditional teaching credentials, which may reduce the equilibrium quantity of teachers who have traditional…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Charter Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Universities
Elizabeth Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative action research study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an organization-wide book study in the K-12 environment. A growing charter school network was working towards an improved organizational culture to meet its mission. This study examined whether an organization-wide book study can make a difference in…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Books, Group Activities, Work Environment
Heather Jacobi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Historically marginalized students, especially urban students attending under-resourced schools, experience lower levels of belongingness than their white peers in suburban, well-resourced schools. Much research highlights that student belongingness increases student outcomes such as on-time graduation, standardized test achievement, and lifetime…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Middle School Students, Grade 5, Restorative Practices
Jennifer Beckwith; Ashley Royal – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The lack of intentional professional development for STEM stakeholders and culturally relevant STEM spaces that are inclusive of Black girls' identities in the K-12 educational system contributes to the continual widening gap of the lack of Black girls' retention and interest in science and math spaces. If this systemic problem is to be reformed,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, African American Students, Females, Elementary Secondary Education
Ashley Royal; Jennifer Beckwith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The lack of intentional professional development for STEM stakeholders and culturally relevant STEM spaces that are inclusive of Black girls' identities in the K-12 educational system contributes to the continual widening gap of the lack of Black girls' retention and interest in science and math spaces. If this systemic problem is to be reformed,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, African American Students, Females, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stephane Lavertu; Long Tran – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2025
There is growing concern that some public service providers may be nonprofit in name but not in fact. We consider this issue in the context of nonprofit charter schools, which sometimes subcontract their daily operations to for-profit management organizations. We use unique data from Ohio to study how nonprofit charters' reliance on for-profit…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, Nonprofit Organizations, Educational Administration
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Kari Dalane; Dave E. Marcotte – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
The share of students attending charter schools has been rising. There is evidence that charter school growth has increased socioeconomic segregation of students between schools. In this paper, we assess whether charter school growth affects how students are organized within nearby traditional public schools (TPS). We use administrative data from…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Segregation, Public Schools, Traditional Schools
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Nicole Patterson; Aubrey H. Wang – School Leadership & Management, 2024
This case study illustrates how leadership for learning and cultural competence could be used as theories of action during times of disruption to lead and transform urban teachers' sense of self, sense of others, and motivation for change. The case study focuses on educators from a large urban charter school whose response to the pandemic and the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Education, Charter Schools, COVID-19
Leilani Lafaurie – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Using Charmaz's constructivist approach to grounded theory, this study presents a substantive theory about the ways that equitable leadership practices developed in principals within charter management organizations during a time of deep social transformation. This study was designed to understand the mindsets, beliefs, and values of principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Beliefs, Values
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