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Cruz, Andrea; Brown, Michelle S. – Research in the Schools, 2010
The impact of the accountability system on perceptions and practices of elementary teachers in South Texas was examined. A mixed methods approach was utilized in this descriptive study. Participants were randomly selected and included 192 educators from 12 campuses, from various districts. Teachers stated that they experienced a great deal of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Heilig, Julian Vasquez; Cole, Heather; Aguilar, Angelica – Arts Education Policy Review, 2010
This historical narrative tracks the evolution and devolution of visual arts education from Dewey's progressive era pedagogy and the theory of the arts as experience through the modern accountability movement. Archival material, state curricular documents, and conversations with policymakers show an increasing focus on core subject areas of…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, High Stakes Tests, Accountability
Cobos, Irma; Lewallen, Joy – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
Open concept schools were a popular architectural design in the 70s. They were built to provide large areas of flexible space for team teaching with small enclosed areas for restrooms, science labs, and special needs classrooms. Because there are no barriers and no closed doors, an attitude of inclusiveness is created merely by the building's…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Building Design, Team Teaching, Open Plan Schools
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
The state's Race to the Top (RTT) application requires changes to the state's evaluation/accountability system. It requires a teacher effectiveness measure, district effectiveness measure, leader effectiveness measure. Regarding the teacher effectiveness measure, RTT requires linking the data of individual students to individual teachers as part…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Teacher Effectiveness, Accountability, Evidence
Schneider, Mark – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2011
With the tenth anniversary of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) fast approaching, that law's legacy continues to be fiercely contested. This new analysis of National Assessment of Educational Progress scores--focusing on Texas and on the entire nation--by former National Center for Education Statistics commissioner Mark Schneider finds that solid gains…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, National Competency Tests, Accountability, Principals
Richardson, Jed Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
My dissertation investigates the effects of education policy on academic achievement. I focus on state and federal policies that seek to influence how teachers and school administrators educate their students, and I evaluate those policies' effects on academic achievement. Chapter 1 examines the effects of a compositional shift in a school's…
Descriptors: Evidence, Race, Teacher Effectiveness, Testing
Christenson, Barbara Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Public education in the United States is currently enveloped in an era of intense accountability. At the national level the "No Child Left Behind Act," demands accountability in any district or school receiving federal funds One of the goals of the No Child Left Behind legislation had its roots in the Texas education accountability…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Grade 8, Grade 5, Grade 4
White, Melissa Eiler; Makkonen, Reino; Stewart, Kari Becker – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2010
This review of teaching standards in six states updates a 2009 review (White, Makkonen, and Stewart 2009) by incorporating California's recently adopted teaching standards alongside those from Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. The previous review was developed at the request of key education agencies in California to inform the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Employment Level
Castillo, Criselda I. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to collect data to determine if assistant principal experience predicts student achievement as measured by the outcome measures of (1) school overall accountability rating, (2) Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) reading/English language arts score, (3) TAKS mathematics score, and (4) campus attendance rate…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Language Arts, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Tresslar, Christopher Adrian – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The focus of this study was to examine the relationship between principal ethnicity and other chosen demographics (community type of the school, average years of teacher experience, and percent of students qualifying as economically disadvantaged) and student achievement as measured by the Texas Education Agency's (TEA's) accountability rating…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, High Schools, Ethnicity, Personnel Selection
Domina, Thurston; Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie; Tienda, Marta – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act requires states to publish high school graduation rates for public schools; the U.S. Department of Education is currently considering a mandate to standardize high school graduation rate reporting. However, no consensus exists among researchers or policymakers about how to measure high school graduation rates. We use…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Longitudinal Studies
Fitzhugh, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The major purpose for the study was to determine if a relationship existed between district ratings, as assigned by the Texas Education Agency, and population groups, funding, and class size. The variables utilized for this study included the following number of student ethnicity/race (African American, Hispanic, and White) utilized in a district…
Descriptors: Accountability, School Districts, Educational Indicators, Economically Disadvantaged
Center on Education Policy, 2011
This individual profile provides information on Texas' high school exit exam standards and policies. Some of the categories presented include: (1) State exit exam policy; (2) Type of Test; (3) Purpose; (4) Major changes in exit exam policy since the 2009-10 school year for financial reasons; (5) Subjects tested on exam; (6) Grade exam first…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Alignment (Education)
Rodriguez, Joe; Slate, John R. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
In this study, the researchers examined ways in which Texas school districts spent their monies over the past three years. Specifically, we analyzed over three years of data to ascertain the extent to which differences were present in percent expenditures (i.e., central administration, instructional leadership, school leadership,…
Descriptors: Accountability, School Districts, Expenditures, Educational Finance
Baker, Sara J. Sanders – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine if significant changes have occurred in the instructional placement and state assessment participation rates of special education students in the state of Texas since the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Data analyzed included the instructional placement data for the years of 2002…
Descriptors: Evidence, Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Special Education