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Sarah Guthery; Lauren P. Bailes – AERA Open, 2023
Texas reduced new teacher preparation requirements in 2001 to allow more alternate paths to licensure. Within 5 years, this policy change resulted in more than half of the state's new teachers being alternatively licensed. Using a series of first difference models, this study examines the relationship between the increased supply of new teachers…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Salaries, School Districts, Teacher Supply and Demand
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Donaldson, Morgaen L.; Mavrogordato, Madeline; Youngs, Peter; Dougherty, Shaun; Al Ghanem, Reem – AERA Open, 2021
Almost every state in the United States has revamped its principal evaluation policies since 2009, yet we know little about how they are implemented. Based on interviews and document analysis in 21 small- and medium-sized school districts, we found that superintendents' sensemaking shaped their implementation of policy. Drawing on their beliefs…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Evaluation, State Policy
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Hopkins, Megan; Weddle, Hayley; Bjorklund, Peter, Jr.; Umansky, Ilana M.; Blanca Dabach, Dafney – AERA Open, 2021
Literature examining the context of reception reveals how various structural and cultural factors shape newcomers' experiences, and thus their opportunities for integration. Fewer studies explore how school districts are situated in this broader context of reception, or how district policies and practices for newcomers are enabled or constrained…
Descriptors: School Districts, Immigrants, Refugees, Social Networks
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Gillani, Nabeel; Chu, Eric; Beeferman, Doug; Eynon, Rebecca; Roy, Deb – AERA Open, 2021
Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments of quality made by other parents, which are increasingly becoming available through written reviews on school ratings websites. To identify relationships between review content and school quality, we apply recent advances in natural language processing to nearly half a million…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Parent Attitudes, Web Sites, Educational Quality
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Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette – AERA Open, 2020
A distinguishing feature of English learners (ELs) centers on coming from homes in which a language other than or in addition to English is used, but bilingualism itself is not a risk factor for low academic achievement. Yet in the United States, ELs' reading achievement continues to lag behind that of their English-proficient peers. In this…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
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Patrick, Susan Kemper; Grissom, Jason A.; Woods, S. Colby; Newsome, UrLeaka W. – AERA Open, 2021
We conceptualize students' opportunities to learn remotely during the initial school closures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. We then examine variation in remote instruction using an original statewide survey of teachers in Tennessee, deployed just a few weeks into the closures. Using three-level logistic regression models, we explore…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Opportunities, COVID-19, Pandemics