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Download full textRamirez, Heidi A.; Schofield, Lynne Steuerle; Black, Melissa – Urban Education Collaborative, 2008
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), like many other urban school districts, struggles to increase its hiring and retention of experienced and highly qualified teachers in its low-performing/high-need schools. Excluding its charter schools, SDP serves approximately 165,000 students, largely from high-poverty (76%) and minority (85%)…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Teacher Recruitment, Academic Achievement
Smeaton, Patricia; Waters, Faith – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2008
The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation was designed to strengthen the achievement of K-12 students across the United States. To help schools improve, their progress must be ascertained and then initiatives implemented that will support improvement efforts. This study, which was conducted in 2005-2006, provides a comprehensive,…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational Change, Politics of Education, Urban Schools
Education Resource Strategies, 2008
In the fall of 2007, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) was invited by Philadelphia's School Reform Commission to conduct a Strategic Professional Development Review for the School District of Philadelphia (SDP). ERS is a nonprofit organization that is nationally recognized for its extensive work in partnering with urban school districts to make…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Strategic Planning, School Districts
Neild, Ruth Curran; Useem, Elizabeth; Travers, Eva F.; Lesnick, Joy – Research for Action, 2003
This report examines the current status of teacher quality in the city and what the School District of Philadelphia is now doing to ensure that all classrooms have highly trained, motivated, and knowledgeable teachers ready to boost the achievement of the district's 188,000 students.The report shows that teacher quality in Philadelphia has not…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence, Collective Bargaining, Faculty Mobility
Direct linkKemp, Cassandra Richardson – Principal Leadership, 2005
Like most states, Pennsylvania has a state accountability system that is aligned with the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and requires that students reach adequate yearly progress (AYP) goals on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) in reading and mathematics at the end of grades 3, 5, 8, and 11 in…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Reading Programs, Public Schools, Graduation Requirements
