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Walker, Lisa; Tozer, Steve – Center for Urban Education Leadership, 2021
The aim of this brief is to describe a key contributor to the persistent disparities found in student learning outcomes in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and to show how this knowledge can help identify specific sources of inequities in CPS, particularly for schools with predominantly Black student enrollments. The authors present a data-based…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Attendance
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Walker, Lisa J.; Tozer, Steven E. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership (CUEL) brief is an analysis that examines schools that have historically struggled to improve within the context of the Chicago Public Schools SQRP Accountability System. In this research brief, CUEL researchers advance the term 'high churn" to describe a school type that has proven particularly…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Schools, Public Schools, Institutional Characteristics
EdChoice, 2024
This poll was conducted between September 20-25, 2024 among a sample of 1,034 Teachers. The interviews were conducted online. Results based on the full survey have a measure of precision of plus or minus 3.60 percentage points. This report highlights: (1) views on K-12 education; (2) teaching profession and experiences; (3) school choice policies;…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Experience
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2017
Over the course of developing Consolidated State Plans, states have spent time evaluating their accountability systems. Many of the accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, such as the inclusion of academic measures of students' proficiency on annual assessments, graduation rates, and English learners' progress toward…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, School Effectiveness, Accountability, Academic Achievement
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Roberts, Daniel M.; Brown, Alisha M. B.; Edwards, Laura – Educational Action Research, 2015
Access to primary and secondary education in Tanzania has drastically expanded in the past two decades. In response to this success, its ministry is now targeting improvements in educational quality through additional reform. Yet teacher absenteeism, physical abuse, overcrowding, lecture-based pedagogy and a system of accountability based…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Teaching Methods, After School Programs
Mathers, Judith K. – School Business Affairs, 1999
Complete performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) have four components: standards and assessments, multiple indicators, rewards, and sanctions. A Colorado survey revealed that teachers felt significantly more accountable in their classrooms than in their buildings for learning climate; curriculum; standards; student behavior, achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Attendance, Classroom Environment
Zimet, Melvin – 1973
This study examines the effects of the 1969 Decentralization Law on a community school district. The central question to which the book addresses itself is: What has been the effect of decentralization on school effectiveness? To reach a conclusion, a comparison was made of the following data before and after decentralization: reading scores,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Attendance, Attendance Records