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Forrest, Colin; Hill, Ron; James, Chris – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
The members of the governing boards of schools, colleges which provide vocational education and training, and universities in the UK have traditionally been volunteers. In some contexts, however, for example, colleges in Northern Ireland, governors are now paid. Whether volunteer governors in other or all settings should be remunerated is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compensation (Remuneration), Volunteers, Governing Boards
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Kazim, Emre; Koshiyama, Adriano Soares; Hilliard, Airlie; Polle, Roseline – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
Business psychologists study and assess relevant individual differences, such as intelligence and personality, in the context of work. Such studies have informed the development of artificial intelligence systems (AI) designed to measure individual differences. This has been capitalized on by companies who have developed AI-driven recruitment…
Descriptors: Psychology, Individual Differences, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence
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Cucchiara, Maia – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
A generation ago, billboards, flyers, or radio spots advertising a public school would have been unusual and surprising. Now they are an increasingly regular feature of the educational landscape. As schools compete for students and resources in the new educational marketplace, they increasingly look to market themselves to prospective parents (and…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Student Recruitment, Public Education, Advertising
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Connolly, Mark; Milton, Emmajane; Davies, Andrew James; Barrance, Rhian – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
This article considers the professional work, identity and recruitment of head teachers (HTs) in Wales. Drawing on the sociology of professions, the article illustrates how intensive educational policy reform post-2011 has restricted HTs' professional agency and re-orientated the head teacher role towards organisational professionalism. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Persistence, Instructional Leadership
Houston Independent School District, 2023
The Board of Education's mission is to equitably educate the whole child so that every student graduates with the tools to reach their full potential (Houston Independent School District (HISD), 2019). To succeed in their mission, the board participates in Lone Star Governance, whose intent is to provide a continuous improvement model for…
Descriptors: School Districts, Boards of Education, Board of Education Policy, Educational Policy
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Jakubowski, Casey; Kulka, Lisa – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2016
Since 1958, the New York State Education Department has officially promoted the policy of consolidating small, rural schools. This policy is delineated in the Master Plan for School Reorganization, and while the centralization of most one-room rural schools has been successful, the state has been less successful in the consolidation of smaller,…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Rural Schools, School Districts, Centralization
Goss, Adrienne C. – Online Submission, 2020
The Rhode Island Education Policy Primer provides an overview of how public education operates in Rhode Island. The Introduction offers context on the inequitable origins of Rhode Island's public school system, as well as the role that activism has played in expanding educational opportunities. The At a Glance section provides a quick look at…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Public Education, Equal Education
Higher Education Funding Council for England, 2015
This report provides an overview of the financial health of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)-funded higher education sector in England. The analysis covers financial results for the academic year 2013-14, as submitted to HEFCE in December 2014, as well as the outcomes from the sector's Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
Yatsko, Sarah – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2012
In November 2010, Baltimore's Fund for Education Excellence and the Annie E. Casey Foundation approached the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and requested a case study of the implementation of Baltimore City Public Schools' (City Schools) portfolio strategy. These local foundations were interested in understanding how the district…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Administration
Aldeman, Chad; Chuong, Carolyn – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
This report examines the ongoing effort to revamp teacher evaluations. After collecting and synthesizing data from 17 states and the District of Columbia, it provides five major lessons for policymakers. New evaluation systems are just one part of sweeping changes in American schools. Because the number and extent of these changes are daunting,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2015
The nation's teacher education programs are not producing the quantity or quality of teachers needed, particularly in needed subjects. The only way to ensure a strong enough pipeline of effective teachers to ensure equitable access is to dramatically increase how states are preparing prospective educators. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Recruitment
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2014
The value of American higher education faces multiple risks, and changes in governance are needed to address them. At risk are accessibility and degree attainment for current and future students, institutional fiscal sustainability, educational quality, economic development and social equity, service to communities, and knowledge creation. Higher…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Governance, Leadership Effectiveness, Institutional Mission
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2014
The "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" presents the most detailed analysis available of each state's performance against, and progress toward, a set of specific, research-based teacher policy goals aimed at helping states build a comprehensive policy framework in support of teacher effectiveness. In this seventh installment of the…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
Houston Independent School District, 2017
Houston Independent School District (HISD) District and School Profiles provides parents, staff, community members, and other interested parties summary information regarding student performance and outcomes, demographics, and school programs for each HISD school. These profiles are divided by instructional level: elementary, middle, high,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Profiles, Elementary Secondary Education, School Administration
Houston Independent School District, 2018
Houston Independent School District (HISD) District and School Profiles provides parents, staff, community members, and other interested parties summary information regarding student performance and outcomes, demographics, and school programs for each HISD school covering the last five years. These profiles are divided by instructional level:…
Descriptors: School Districts, Profiles, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary Schools
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