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The Challenge of Teacher Retention in Urban Schools: Evidence of Variation from a Cross-Site Analysis
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Papay, John P.; Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Page, Lindsay C.; Marinell, William H. – Educational Researcher, 2017
Substantial teacher turnover poses a challenge to staffing public schools with effective teachers. The scope of the teacher retention challenge across school districts, however, remains poorly defined. Applying consistent data practices and analytical techniques to administrative data sets from 16 urban districts, we document substantial…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Urban Schools, Educational Policy, Urban Teaching
Finding the Perfect Fit
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O'Donovan, Eamonn – District Administration, 2012
From the outset, President Obama placed teacher quality at the center of his Education Plan. The president and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have focused on teacher evaluation as the means of securing the best teachers for American students. This is evident from the push to use student achievement data in teacher evaluation in Race to the Top…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Selection, Best Practices, Alignment (Education)
"Becoming" Teachers of Inner-City Students: Identification Creativity and Curriculum Wisdom of Committed White Male Teachers
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Jupp, James C.; Slattery, G. Patrick, Jr. – Urban Education, 2012
Broadly speaking, this reflection approaches the on-going concern of capacitating an overwhelmingly White teaching profession for effectively teaching inner-city students attending "de facto" segregated schools. Using professional identifications, this reflection presents narrativized understanding of respondents' "becoming"…
Descriptors: Creativity, Urban Schools, Whites, Professional Identity
Measuring Urban Teachers' Beliefs about African American Students: A Psychometric Analysis
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Natesan, Prathiba; Kieftenbeld, Vincent – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
Understanding urban teachers' beliefs about African American students has become important because (a) many teachers are reluctant to teach students from other cultures, and (b) most teachers are European American. To construct a psychometrically sound measure of teacher beliefs, the authors investigate the measurement properties of a teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, African American Students, Teachers
Profile of an Effective Urban Music Educator
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Baker, Vicki D. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to develop a profile of an effective urban music educator in an effort to provide strategies for university teacher training programs to prepare students to teach in urban schools. The study examined urban music teachers' (N = 158) educational background, effective and ineffective characteristics, perceived…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Caring, Teacher Education, Music
Urban K12 School-University Teacher Preparation Partnerships: An Initiative of the Great Cities' Universities
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Ilmer, Steven; Kirby, Peggy C. – Online Submission, 2007
The 21 urban research universities that are members of the Great Cities' Universities (GCU) annually enroll approximately 20 percent of the students in the United States who are preparing to teach in K12 urban schools. This study examined the experiences of GCU-sponsored, school-university teacher preparation partnerships in Atlanta, Houston,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Research Universities