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Download full textPeurach, Donald J.; Foster, Anna T.; Lyle, Angela M.; Seeber, Emily R. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2021
The aim of this essay is to advance understandings of current efforts to democratize disciplined approaches to educational innovation and improvement in the US and other countries, with a specific focus on the macro-level policy contexts of improvement research in education. In the US, earlier analyses examined these policy contexts from a…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Direct linkLawson, Hal A.; Durand, Francesca T.; Wilcox, Kristen Campbell; Gregory, Karen M.; Schiller, Kathryn S.; Zuckerman, Sarah J. – Journal of School Leadership, 2017
This mixed-method multiple case study investigated nine elementary schools. Six "odds-beating schools," which serve relatively high numbers of economically disadvantaged children, achieved higher than predicted performance on state assessments when compared with three typically performing schools. The overarching research question…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged
LaVenia, Mark; Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Lang, Laura B. – American Journal of Education, 2015
Today, with states' near-universal adoption of the Common Core State Standards, the political system has achieved that which was not possible less than 2 decades ago. Just why this is so remains unanswered. Some observers have attributed states' embrace of the standards to the substantial financial incentives that the federal government embedded…
Descriptors: State Standards, Adoption (Ideas), Politics of Education, Educational Policy
Gratz, Donald B. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2011
The primary goal of performance pay for the past decade has been higher test scores, and the most prominent strategy has been to increase teacher performance through financial incentives. If teachers are rewarded for success, according to this logic, they will try harder. If they try harder, more children will achieve higher test scores. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Evidence, Incentives
Grossman, Pam; Loeb, Susanna; Cohen, Julie; Wyckoff, James – American Journal of Education, 2013
Over the past 2 years, educational policy makers have focused much of their
attention on issues related to teacher effectiveness. The Obama Administration has made teacher evaluation and teacher quality a central feature of many of its educational policies, including Race to the Top (RTTT), Investing in Innovation (i3), and the Teacher Incentive…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Innovation, Incentives
Alvord, Sarah – Grantmakers for Education, 2012
It was 8:45 a.m. on Monday, March 29, 2010, when Paul Herdman got the stunning news. Just two states had won first-round grants in the Race to the Top competition, the largest federal competition of its kind in American history, out of 40 state applicants. Herdman joined the Rodel Foundation of Delaware (Rodel) as President and CEO in 2004. The…
Descriptors: Persistence, Competition, Educational Change, Public Education
