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Does Implicit Bias Matter at the Administrative Level? A Study of Principal Implicit Bias and the Racial Discipline Severity Gap
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Gullo, Gina Laura; Beachum, Floyd D. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Implicit bias, or stereotypes and attitudes that may or may not reflect known positions, has been implicated in teachers' disciplinary interactions with students; however not all of the differences in discipline severity by race are accounted for by teachers. School administrators have received little attention concerning…
Descriptors: Principals, Assistant Principals, Discipline, Student Behavior
Principals' Hiring of Teachers in Philadelphia Schools: A Research Report on Improving Teacher Quality
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Ramirez, Heidi A.; Schofield, Lynne Steuerle; Black, Melissa – Urban Education Collaborative, 2009
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), like many other urban school districts, struggles to increase its hiring and retention of experienced and highly qualified teachers in its low-performing/high-need schools. Toward the goal of improving teacher quality and the experience balance, particularly in hard-to-staff schools, the Philadelphia…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Selection, Urban Schools, School Districts
From Testing to Teaching: The Use of Interim Assessments in Classroom Instruction. CPRE Research Report # RR-65
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Goertz, Margaret E.; Olah, Leslie Nabors; Riggan, Matthew – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2009
The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the use of interim assessments and the policy supports that promote use to improve instruction, focusing on elementary school mathematics. The authors use the term "interim assessments" to refer to assessments that a) evaluate student knowledge and skills, typically within a limited…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Formative Evaluation, Data Analysis, Elementary School Teachers
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Meixsell, Susanne H.; Zirkel, Perry A. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2007
Madeline Smith, a new elementary principal in northeastern Pennsylvania, wrestles with how to handle a dilemma involving one of her special education teachers who is wearing a head wrap while working. Wearing the head wrap is a violation of district policy, and if the head wrap is a religious symbol, then the employee is also violating the state…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, School Policy, Elementary Schools, Principals
A Research Brief: "Principals' Hiring of Teachers in Philadelphia"
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Ramirez, Heidi A.; Schofield, Lynne Steuerle; Black, Melissa – Urban Education Collaborative, 2008
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), like many other urban school districts, struggles to increase its hiring and retention of experienced and highly qualified teachers in its low-performing/high-need schools. Excluding its charter schools, SDP serves approximately 165,000 students, largely from high-poverty (76%) and minority (85%)…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Teacher Recruitment, Academic Achievement
The Perceptions of Pennsylvania Principals and Counselors on the Issue of Student Rights.
Schwab, James D. – 1979
The purpose of this research study was to determine the opinions of school principals and school counselors in Pennsylvania on the issue of student rights. A 30-statement opinion questionnaire was constructed and mailed to 171 counselors and 154 principals in 48 public school districts widely distributed throughout Pennsylvania. The response rate…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Corporal Punishment, Counselors, Court Litigation