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Stewart, Kathy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
With the national focus in education turning to increasing student achievement and closing achievement gaps between demographic groups, federal and state policy has extended responsibility and high stakes accountability for student growth and achievement. Overall, student achievement status and elimination of achievement gaps between…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Teacher Attitudes, Accountability, Academic Achievement
Fuller, Edward J.; Young, Michelle D.; Richardson, M. Scott; Pendola, Andrew; Winn, Kathleen M. – National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), 2018
Principals historically have needed to adapt to dramatic shifts that impact their schools, including significant policy changes at the state and federal levels. For example, the 2008 study recorded principals' reactions to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), signed into law in early 2002. NCLB substantially altered the landscape of education across the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Schools
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Eberts, Randall W. – Future of Children, 2007
Randall Eberts explores the role of teachers unions in public education. He focuses particularly on how collective bargaining agreements shape the delivery of educational services, how unions affect both student achievement and the cost of providing quality education, and how they support educational reform efforts. Eberts's synthesis of the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Collective Bargaining, Educational Quality, Unions
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Hooghart, Anne M. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The 2002 restructuring of the national curriculum in all Japanese public elementary and secondary schools includes a reduction and reallocation of instructional hours, and the addition of a new "integrated studies" course, with an emphasis on more individualized, cross-curricular thematic projects. This reform comes at a time when a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Public Schools