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All Odds against Them: The Superintendent's Leadership in Rapid and Sustained System Improvement in Small, Rural, Impoverished, School Districts
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Labs, Bruce C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This research is an examination of the instructional leadership practices of effective rural superintendents who oversee school districts in small, rural school districts in the most northern New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The study looked at the successful leadership practices of school district superintendents who have…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Instructional Leadership, Poverty, Disadvantaged Schools
A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Vouchers. Second Edition
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Forster, Greg – Foundation for Educational Choice, 2011
This report collects the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools. Contrary to the widespread claim that vouchers do not benefit participants and hurt…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Competition, Program Effectiveness
Do National and State Assessments Converge for Educational Accountability? A Meta-Analytic Synthesis of Multiple Measures in Maine and Kentucky
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Lee, Jaekyung – Applied Measurement in Education, 2007
Given the policy imperative of using multiple measures for state education accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), this study examines similarities and discrepancies between the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the states' own math assessment results in Kentucky and Maine, with a focus on 3 major academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Federal Legislation, Achievement Gains, National Competency Tests
The Relationship of Class Size to Student Achievement: What the Research Says. Occasional Paper Series No. 3.
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McIntyre, Walter G.; Marion, Scott F. – 1989
The relationship between class size and scholastic outcomes is addressed in this paper. A literature review focuses on the research of Glass and Smith (1978) and Larkin and Keeves (1984). Contradictory and inconclusive research findings about teacher effectiveness in relation to class size indicate that emphasis should be placed on training…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Class Size, Classroom Environment