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"Why Does the Public Hate Us?"
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Lynch, Deborah – Educational Leadership, 2014
"It's demoralizing to see your life's work pilloried almost daily in the news." This comment is typical of the anger and disappointment expressed by many of the more than 2,300 Chicago teachers surveyed by Deborah Lynch in 2011-2012. Lynch set out to explore how the accountability policies pursued by Chicago's board of…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Accountability, School Closing, School Turnaround
The Diminishing Barrier: A Report on School Desegregation in Nine Communities.
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Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1972
The main purpose of this study is to present documented facts concerning the operation of school desegregation in communities which are engaged in the process. The purpose of the Commission on Civil Rights is to identify problems which recur in school districts undergoing desegregation, and to describe how they have been met. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Development of Procedures for Assessing the Impact of Vocational Education Research and Development on Vocational Education (Project IMPACT). Volume 7--Case Studies of Two Illinois School Districts with Innovative Vocational Education Programs.
Braun, Kurt; And Others – 1980
As part of Project IMPACT's efforts to identify and develop procedures for complying with the impact requirements of Public Law 94-482, a case study was made of two Illinois communities and the vocational education programs in those communities. The study examined the relationship between the "good" vocational education programs in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Educational Assessment