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Eadens, Daniel W.; Davidson, Frank D.; Eadens, Danielle M. – Education Leadership Review, 2020
The last three decades of board research has embarked on various aspects of school boards (Alsbury, 2008b; Delagardelle, 2008; Resnick & Bryant, 2010; Strauss, 2018) including characteristics of effective boards (Alsbury & Gore, 2015; Dervarics & O'Brien, 2016), importance of targeted school board trainings (Cook, 2014; Gann, 2015;…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Governing Boards, Leadership Training, Educational Benefits
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Kronholz, June – Education Next, 2014
While U.S. schools struggled to reach even an average score on a key international exam for 15-year-olds in 2012, BASIS Tucson North, an economically modest, ethnically diverse charter school in Arizona, outperformed every country in the world, and left even Shanghai, China's academic gem in the dust. With the U.S. frantic about its place in the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Student Diversity, Scores, Achievement Rating