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Flowers, Anthony A., Jr. – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that impact the job satisfaction and retention of teachers at a rural high school in South Carolina. An electronic survey was given to 22 teachers in order to collect information on job satisfaction and teacher retention. Several factors were identified that impact job satisfaction and teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Teacher Persistence, High School Teachers, Rural Schools
Culclasure, Brooke T.; Fleming, David J.; Riga, Ginny – Online Submission, 2018
With support from the Self Family Foundation and the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee, the Riley Institute has completed a multi-year study of Montessori education in South Carolina's public schools, the most comprehensive evaluation of public Montessori ever conducted in the United States. Between 2011 and 2016, this mixed-method…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Public Schools
Knoeppel, Robert C.; Brewer, Curtis A.; Lindle, Jane Clark; First, Patricia F. – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study is to expand the definition of adequacy by adding soft skills as a measure of school productivity. The singular focus on academic standards inherent in education policy has prevented scholars from seeing the concept of adequacy through myriad perspectives and has contributed to a resegregation of schools. Education policy…
Descriptors: Productivity, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Educational Policy