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Tackling Gaps in Access to Strong Teachers: What State Leaders Can Do
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Metz, Rachel; Socol, Allison Rose – Education Trust, 2017
Of the many inequities in the education system, gaps in access to strong teaching have proven to be among the most stubborn. That is not to say that there are not excellent teachers in high-poverty schools. Research shows an indisputable and wide-spread pattern in schools and districts across the country: Low-income children and children of color…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Teacher Effectiveness, Equal Education, Minority Group Students
External Pressures for Reform and Strategy Formation at the District Level: Superintendents' Interpretations of State Demands.
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Wills, Frances G.; Peterson, Kent D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
Strategies that school superintendents use to develop and implement school improvement plans in response to state mandates were studied through interviews with 30 Maine superintendents and assistant superintendents. Results indicate that imposition of state standards may ignore superintendents' interpretations that shape the approach to meeting…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Effects of Structural Complexity on Administrative Role Demands.
Carr, John C. – 1987
This report of a 1986 survey conducted in Maine addresses the relationship between stated time use demands on principals and superintendents and the structural complexity of the organizations in which they work. Researchers, comparing single with multiple schools and districts of supervisory responsibility, mailed the Maine Administrative…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education