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"Confidence" Problems and Literacy Coaching: How a Suburban Kindergarten Divided "Good" and "Bad" Teachers in the Accountability Shove-Down
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Sherfinski, Melissa – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
This paper explores the context of a Kindergarten team in a suburban P-3 school in Wisconsin developing literacy coaching support. Facing recent neoliberal accountability reforms that have greatly expanded teacher competition, dismantled teachers' unions, and added the role of the coach to the school, "confidence" is an issue that the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Coaching (Performance), Literacy, Self Esteem
The Cost-Effectiveness of Public and Private Schools of Choice in Wisconsin
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DeAngelis, Corey A. – Journal of School Choice, 2021
I calculate the cost-effectiveness of private schools participating in school voucher programs, independent charter schools, and district-authorized charter schools, compared to traditional public schools in Wisconsin for the 2017-18 school year. I calculate cost-effectiveness by dividing the Accountability Report Card score for each school by the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Accountability, School Choice
The Multiple Meanings of (In)Equity: Remaking School District Tracking Policy in an Era of Budget Cuts and Accountability
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Turner, Erica O.; Spain, Angeline K. – Urban Education, 2020
How do school district administrators make sense of educational equity as they undertake reform? This study examines tracking policymaking in two urban school districts. Using case studies and an interpretive approach, the study highlights school district leaders' shifting ways of making sense of tracking and (in)equity while facing achievement…
Descriptors: Budgets, Retrenchment, Track System (Education), Gifted
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Descriptive Report on Participating Schools, 2009-2010. SCDP Miwaukee Evaluation. Report #27
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Kisida, Brian; Jensen, Laura I.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2011
This report is the fourth in a series of annual reports produced by the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP) that provides descriptive information about the schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). A total of 115 schools participated in the MPCP for the entire 2009-10 academic year, with 20,899 students enrolled…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education