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Direct linkReinhorn, Stefanie K.; Johnson, Susan Moore; Simon, Nicole S. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
We studied how six high-performing, high-poverty schools in one large Massachusetts city implemented the state's new teacher evaluation policy. The sample includes traditional, turnaround, restart, and charter schools, each of which had received the state's highest accountability rating. We sought to learn how these successful schools approached…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, State Policy, High Achievement, Poverty Areas
Hesel, Richard A.; Strauss, David W.; Edwards, Benjamin G. – Trusteeship, 2009
The counterintuitive approach of the world's greatest value investor, Warren Buffett, may be the best hope for colleges and universities during this recession. Buffett's time-tested philosophy of seeking value and investing for the long term remains a sound approach, even if his short-term returns have declined along with those of the rest of the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Innovation, Change Strategies, Public Colleges
Compact, 1971
A task force of Massachusetts corporation executives and managers evaluates and comments on business practices in that State's public school system. (JF)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Coordination, Governance
Martin, Shanetta; Pittman, Karen; Ferber, Thaddeus, McMahon, Ada – Forum for Youth Investment, 2007
The guide is designed to help states and localities create or strengthen their own youth councils. It is a synthesis of theory and practice that provides a general framework for thinking about youth councils, explaining the principles for youth action and the importance of youth engagement. It also incorporates advice and lessons from people in…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Guidance Programs, Participative Decision Making, Theory Practice Relationship
Forsstrom, Jan; Ham, Gary – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2007
Five years ago, North Shore Community College (NSCC) encountered rising enrollments in the face of lagging state funding. The addition of two new campuses stretched NSCC thin as it attempted to provide administrative and academic services across five (more recently consolidated to four) locations. Its students increasingly struggled to balance the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Multicampus Colleges, Information Technology, Web Sites
Massachusetts State Board of Education, Boston. – 1978
After presenting the legal principles regarding Massachusetts school integration policy, this document outlines the policy guidleines that State has established for meeting these principles. Footnotes include reviews of court decisions on school segregation in various states which have contributed to various aspects of Massachusetts desegregation…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2004
Three decades of mounting academic and testing requirements are snagging growing numbers of students in the 9th grade. "The bulge" is the name education researchers give to the percentage increase in students in the 9th grade over the same period. This article reports on factors that might explain the growing 9th grade bottleneck and…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Graduation Rate, Secondary Schools, Grade 10
Agosta, John M.; Howard, Anne – 1986
The report describes activities and findings of an 18-month project which surveyed day and other non-residential services provided to persons with mental retardation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. An introductory section describes project purposes, followed by a description of project methods (sampling plan, questionnaire development,…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Adults, Agency Role, Community Involvement
Archer, Jeff – Education Week, 2005
Lots of districts like to think they have close-knit leadership teams. But few school leaders can say they've ironed their clothes together, which became a morning ritual for a group from San Francisco that spent a week at the Harvard Business School in Boston. Joined by similar teams from seven other large districts, they camped out in dorm-like…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Leadership, Public Education, Organizational Change
