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A Proposal to Select, Place, and Keep, the Best Teachers in the Neediest Schools. A Kansas State Dept. of Education White Paper
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Moss, Tony – Kansas State Department of Education, 2011
Teacher selection, retention, and evaluation form a contentious policy knot. This paper: (1) reviews the recent history of teacher labor markets; (2) describes the teacher selection, preparation and retention policies of three countries that successfully reformed their systems; (3) proposes a different theoretical guide; and (4) reviews key…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Teacher Selection, Teacher Persistence, Cross Cultural Studies
Teachers' Perceptions of Looping in Elementary Schools in Relation to Select Academic and Classroom Environment Variables
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Ford, D. Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine whether looping, a multi-year teaching arrangement where the teacher remains with the same group of students for two or more years is a practicable alternative, as assessed by teacher opinion, to the typical one year grouping of students. Because the teacher is the pivotal figure within the classroom and…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Looping (Teachers), Teaching Experience, Classroom Environment
The Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP): Synthesis of Findings and Policy Implications. inForum
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Parrish, Thomas; Esra, Phil – Project Forum, 2006
Reflecting the need for updated, comprehensive and accurate information, the Special Education Expenditure Project was included in a series of studies mandated by Congress in 1997 to measure and evaluate the impact of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). SEEP was the first comprehensive, nationally representative study…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Disabilities, Related Services (Special Education), Special Education