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Virtual Schools Report 2016: Directory and Performance Review
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Gary Miron; Charisse Gulosino – National Education Policy Center, 2016
This 2016 report is the fourth in an annual series of National Education Policy Center (NEPC) reports on the fast-growing U.S virtual school sector. This year's report provides a comprehensive directory of the nation's full-time virtual and blended learning school providers. It also pulls together and assesses the available evidence on the…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Blended Learning, Public Schools, Traditional Schools
Principals' Approaches to Hiring, Assigning, Evaluating, and Developing Teachers
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Donaldson, Morgaen L. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
This article provides key findings from a study of 30 principals working in charter and conventional schools in two northeastern states. It aims to inform policy makers regarding how principals could more positively influence teacher quality. It focuses on the following questions: (1) What influenced how principals hired, assigned, evaluated, and…
Descriptors: Principals, Charter Schools, Traditional Schools, Context Effect
The Transformation of a School System: Principal, Teacher, and Parent Perceptions of Charter and Traditional Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Technical Report
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Steele, Jennifer L.; Vernez, Georges; Gottfried, Michael A.; Schwam-Baird, Michael – RAND Corporation, 2011
Hurricane Katrina set the stage for a transformation of public education in New Orleans, replacing the city's existing school system with a decentralized choice-based system of both charter and district-run schools. Using principal, teacher, and parent surveys administered three years after Katrina, this study examined schools' governance and…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, School Choice, School Personnel
Educational Opportunity and Alternative Certification: New Evidence and New Questions. Policy Brief Number 1
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Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2009
Recent findings from a Mathematica study comparing the performance of teachers prepared via alternative and traditional routes have been interpreted to suggest that policymakers and practitioners should expand the use of fast-entry alternative routes and seek teachers trained through such programs, as they presumably perform as well in the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Traditional Schools, Educational Opportunities, Alternative Teacher Certification