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Rotberg, Iris C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
School leaders juggle the often-inconsistent goals of maintaining support of middle- and upper-income families for public education and, at the same time, implementing policies to strengthen equity for low-income students. Author Iris C. Rotberg describes how these tradeoffs play out in different communities, the role of concentrated poverty and…
Descriptors: Public Education, Equal Education, Low Income Students, Poverty
Henry, Wesley L. C.; VanGronigen, Bryan A.; Wronowski, Meredith L.; Olive, James L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
While the demands of teaching continue to escalate, teacher development has changed relatively little over time, leaving many of today's teachers feeling underprepared, overwhelmed, or demoralized with few opportunities to make real change. Teacher leadership holds promise for both addressing challenges within schools and empowering teachers.…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Educational Improvement, Faculty Development, Urban Schools
Eslinger, James C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Ohio's Columbus City Schools developed a new urban grow-your-own principal pipeline. This pipeline emphasizes the cultivation of equity-centered principals who can address educational and social disparities in transformative and sustainable ways. Drawing from research and professional literature and from district and stakeholder engagements,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Principals, Equal Education, Transformational Leadership
White, Rachel S.; Evans, Michael P.; Malin, Joel R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Media reports have shown suburban school officials being threatened and school board meetings erupting into chaos. Rachel S. White, Michael P. Evans, and Joel R. Malin examine whether these politically contentious experiences are occurring everywhere, or if there is something distinct about the contentiousness suburban superintendents face.…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Suburbs, Political Attitudes, Superintendents
Miller, Samuel; Stallings, Sarah; Massey, Dixie; Metzger, Salem R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
While endorsed as critical for promoting learning, students' interest in a topic has had minimal, if any, influence on curriculum development. Teachers thus are challenged to promote students' interest within an established curriculum. After students demonstrated misunderstandings after reading an article about bacteria, Sarah Stallings and Samuel…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Student Participation, Student Centered Learning, Grade 4
Kim, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
No Child Left Behind and the Every Student Succeeds Act have made accountability central to conversations about education policy. But neither statute articulates a clear vision of what constitutes "quality" or "equity" in education, nor do they include a mechanism to ensure that schools have sufficient resources to pursue that…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Accountability
McDonald, Joseph P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Joseph P. McDonald reports findings from a study of nine poverty-impacted schools in New York City striving to more effectively use student performance data in teaching. The study was one of 13 studies of data use at the classroom level across the United States funded by the Spencer Foundation -- an effort intended to fill a serious gap in…
Descriptors: Data, Information Utilization, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement
Collins, Jonathan E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
The voices of students of color often are left out of discussions of urban school reform conversations when they should be central to reform efforts. Jonathan Collins suggests looking at democratic reform as an avenue to bring those voices forward. Participatory budgeting, for example, introduces students to the idea that they could decide how…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Change, School Districts, Urban Schools
Ben-Porath, Sigal – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Historically, debates about educational choice have wrestled with big, unresolved tensions that lie at the heart of American life, having to do with individual rights, community obligations, public and private interests, religious freedoms, and more. But in recent years, school reformers have tended to talk about choice as though it referred only…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Charter Schools, Private Schools
Ilic, Gorana; Rosenbaum, James E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
While many high schools reproduce social inequalities in college access, little is known about the schools that successfully reduce them. To this end, Gorana Ilic and James E. Rosenbaum studied an urban high school that expressed a strong commitment to supporting all students' college applications. In this article, they describe the organizational…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Students, College Bound Students, College Applicants
Cohen, Abbie – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Recent headlines describing the national drop in public school enrollment suggest that this is a shocking crisis brought on or worsened by the pandemic. However, Abbie Cohen argues that the current enrollment decline should not be a surprise. The underlying causes have festered for decades. Among these causes is the tension between the different…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Enrollment, Social Mobility, Trust (Psychology)
Glazer, Jeremy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
One way to identify good schools is to look for the schools where teachers want to work. Jeremy Glazer interviewed teachers in one large urban school district who moved from hard-to-staff schools to some of the district's most desirable schools, asking what motivated their moves and why the schools they sought out were attractive to them. These…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Urban Schools, Teacher Motivation, Teaching Conditions
Potter, Daniel; Baumgartner, Erin; Turley, Ruth N. López – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Although researchers have done effective work at describing the inequities that plague schools, they have been less successful at making headway in addressing them, largely because their work remains disconnected from the schools that have to try to use the research. Through research-practice partnerships, researchers are able to stay in touch…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Equal Education, Urban Schools
Heller, Rafael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Kappan's editor-in-chief talks with renowned scholar Susan Moore Johnson about her extensive research into the professional lives of public school teachers. For decades, studies have shown that teaching tends to be isolating work, with few opportunities for teachers to collaborate with and learn from each other or to play meaningful roles in…
Descriptors: Interviews, School Organization, Public School Teachers, Urban Schools
Salisbury, Kurt; Nichols, T. Philip – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Recently, makerspaces have captured the imaginations of educators as resources for transforming school-based learning. Aligning informal making practices with the formal aims of the school curriculum, however, can present challenges. In this article, Philip Nichols and Kurt Salisbury show how educators in two very different contexts -- a suburban…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, Secondary Schools
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