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Amanda Slaten Frasier – AERA Open, 2024
Prohibited concept laws have a chilling effect on teaching, resulting in the erasure of social justice topics; however, the extent to which district-level actors support such laws or the role they play in perpetuating the effect is unclear. I offer a framework for understanding how district-level policy messaging contributes to the chilling effect…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Superintendents
Max, Jeffrey; Koppich, Julia E. – Center for Educator Compensation Reform, 2009
A growing number of states and school districts are experimenting with new approaches to paying teachers. These efforts to reform teacher pay can involve a range of state and local actors, including governors, state education officials, superintendents, local school boards, teacher unions, private foundations, community organizations, and local…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Unions, Educational Change, Stakeholders
Dixon, Asenith – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
In elementary and secondary education governance, the need to build an effective system of public education is the driving force behind the selection of a state's key education leaders. This paper provides a snapshot of what state K-12 governance looks like in SREB states. (Contains 7 tables.)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Public Education, Counties
Husen, Peter M. – Tennessee Education, 1973
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Selection, Board of Education Role, School District Autonomy
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Lamkin, Marcia L. – Rural Educator, 2006
This research study was designed to build grounded theory about the challenges faced by rural superintendents. Participating rural superintendents identified five areas that presented a challenge but that also applied to superintendents in other settings: school law, finance, personnel, government mandates, and district or board policies. Further,…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Focus Groups, School Law, Instructional Leadership
UBBEN, GERALD C.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS 274 BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND PERIODICALS ON COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATION PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1956 AND 1967. MOST OF THE SELECTIONS ARE MORE RECENT THAN 1963. PERIODICALS MAKE UP MORE THAN FIVE-SIXTHS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY. ALSO INCLUDED ARE SEVERAL RECOMMENDED GENERAL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING TEXTS AND A FEW SELECTED ENTRIES…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining
EGERTON, JOHN; LEESON, JIM – 1967
THE BIGGEST CHANGE WHICH RESULTED FROM THE CONSOLIDATION OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, INTO ONE GOVERNMENTAL UNIT WAS THE CREATION OF A UNIFIED SCHOOL SYSTEM. NOW, ALL BUT ONE MEMBER OF THE NEW METRO BOARD OF EDUCATION ARE NEW APPOINTEES, AS IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. UNDER THIS NEW LEADERSHIP BROAD CHANGES IN THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role
Little, Ann M.; And Others – 1986
With the objectives of assisting state educators in designing school leadership programs, school administrators in Tennessee were surveyed to determine levels of training and perceived training needs. Questionnaires were administered in 1986 to school board members, principals, and superintendents. Part 1 of the questionnaire dealt with…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrators, Boards of Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
In April, 1919, at the request of the Board of Education of Memphis, Tennessee, the United States Commissioner of Education submitted the conditions on which the Bureau of Education would make a survey of the public school system of that city. This study of the Memphis schools is intended to be a study of policies and practices; not of persons.…
Descriptors: School Organization, Educational Facilities, Public Schools, Educational Change