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Thornton, Zoë Mercedes; Friedel, Janice Nahra – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Performance-based funding (PBF) models intend to increase efficiency and productivity of the institution, thereby influencing organizational change. This change may be structural, programmatic, or procedural, and it may affect institutional practice and/or policy. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand the organizational…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, State Policy, Rural Schools, Small Schools
Gutierrez, Veronica – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Rural schools are struggling to fill their classrooms with highly qualified teachers. Although the criteria, as per the federal government, for identifying a teacher as highly qualified is quite simple the criteria in the perspective of rural administrators is rather complex. The challenge of identifying teachers as highly qualified to teach in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Rural Education, Teacher Selection, Selection Criteria
Parsons, Earl H. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Organization leaders manage change through projects to realize specific expected benefits. Under Expectation-Confirmation theory, expected benefits can be used to judge the ongoing viability and final success of the project. Organization leaders often develop management controls to ensure that the expected benefits are defined to allow their use…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Audits (Verification), Failure, Expectation
Shipman, Cheri Deann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study examined the perceptions of faculty members who use technology in undergraduate higher education traditional classrooms in research-focused regional universities in South Texas. Faculty members at research-focused regional universities are expected to divide time judiciously into three major areas: research, service, and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Undergraduate Study
Whitacre, Michael – International Journal of Instruction, 2015
The central focus of this study was to determine the overall perceptions of school administrators, and the district bilingual coordinator on transferring theory to classroom practice, implementation, as viewed by those involved in the implementation process of the Gómez and Gómez Model of Dual Language Education. Responses were solicited from…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Spanish, Theory Practice Relationship, Models
Morton, Tabitha S. M. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2015
This article seeks to determine whether 2 common management strategies, representative bureaucracy and personnel stability, can be used in combination with each other in order to improve educational policy outcomes for Latinos. Using data from Texas school districts from 1994 to 2010 and a cross-sectional longitudinal research design, I find that…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy
Neely, Jeffrey C. – Youth & Society, 2015
Many of today's youth feel disconnected from their local communities. At the same time, most of them are regularly connected to the Internet and other digital media to gather information and communicate with their peers. This study conducts a qualitative textual analysis of 14 scholastic and nonscholastic youth media websites to derive five…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Youth, Adolescents, Internet
Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle; Sulè, V. Thandi; Maramba, Dina C. – Educational Policy, 2014
What happens to race in public discussions about "race-neutral" college admissions policies? This article shows how race disappeared from elite political debate during hearings on Texas Senate Bill 175 (2009), the Top Ten Percent Plan (the Plan), which guaranteed college admissions to high school graduates from the top 10% of their…
Descriptors: College Admission, Race, Hearings, State Legislation
Salerno, April S.; Heny, Natasha A. – Cogent Education, 2016
Though teacher educators nationwide are considering ways to provide urban placements for pre-service teachers (PSTs), little research has examined how PSTs experience placements in schools operated by charter management organizations (CMOs). This study considers CMOs--which often hold particular instructional and classroom management…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English Teachers, Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research
Olivier, Dianne F.; Huffman, Jane B. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016
As the Professional Learning Community (PLC) process becomes embedded within schools, the level of district support has a direct impact on whether schools have the ability to re-culture and sustain highly effective collaborative practices. The purpose of this article is to share a professional learning community conceptual framework from the US,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, School Districts, Participative Decision Making, Instructional Leadership
Mitchell, Claire E.; Alozie, Nonye M.; Wathington, Heather D. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This study examines whether community college developmental summer bridge programs (DSBPs) can help students acquire the academic and college knowledge needed to attend and succeed at a four-year higher education institution. In-depth interviews with 14 participants at nine four-year institutions in Texas were conducted two years after their…
Descriptors: Investigations, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Developmental Studies Programs
Flower, Andrea; McKenna, John William; Haring, Christa D.; Pazey, Barbara – Preventing School Failure, 2015
Seven high school students with emotional disturbance were interviewed regarding their perceptions of their school experiences in preparation for transition. Students received support services from a behavior intervention program but spent the majority of the school day in general education classes. Interview data were collectively coded and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Modification, High School Students, Emotional Disturbances
McPherson, Rebecca; Wang, Jia – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to investigate the embedded process that enables or constrains low-income low-qualified employees' access to workplace learning in small organizations. Design/methodology/approach: Informed by the sociomaterial approach and cultural historical activity theory, this study adopted a qualitative cross-case study…
Descriptors: Semiskilled Workers, Low Income Groups, Access to Education, Workplace Learning
Azano, Amy Price; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Missett, Tracy C.; Brunner, Marguerite – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2014
Approximately one quarter of American students attend rural schools; however, the needs of these students are often overlooked in education policy despite well-documented limited financial resources and pervasive poverty. Relatively little is known about the experiences of gifted students in rural areas and even less about the teachers serving…
Descriptors: Gifted, Special Education Teachers, Teaching Experience, Rural Schools
Berkowitz, Sally Greenberg – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore ways in which third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers reported they successfully improved the reading achievement of students with LD as documented by an increase in test scores on standardized tests in reading. Moreover, this study is an examination of productive ways in which elementary classroom…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction