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Shaw, Ryan D.; Auletto, Amy – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2022
Access to music education in American schools is not guaranteed. Although national studies have demonstrated disparities based on poverty, race, and other markers, these studies miss a necessary level of local detail in describing access. Additionally, studies that exist are based on self-report surveys and prone to nonresponse bias. The purpose…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Educational Policy, Access to Education
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Wright, Mary – Journal of Higher Education, 2005
In this study, the author explores research university departments in which there is instructional congruence, or a culture in which individuals perceive that their beliefs about teaching align with their institution because department members have constructed shared understandings of effective teaching and of the value they place on instruction.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Departments, Qualitative Research
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Bleecher, Harvey – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1976
Reveals that Michigan teachers do not regard the state department's communications on accountability as authoritative and predicts that the teachers will withhold their cooperation from the program. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Accountability, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education, Information Theory
BACHMAN, JERALD G. – 1966
THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS ON THE PERFORMANCE AND ATTITUDES OF COLLEGE FACULTY MEMBERS WERE STUDIED. CAUSES FOR FACULTY SATISFACTION WITH THEIR CHAIRMAN, GENERAL JOB SATISFACTION, AND LOYALTY TO THE COLLEGE WERE SOUGHT. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE RECEIVED FROM 444 FACULTY MEMBERS IN 12 LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, College Faculty, Department Heads
Wilson, Suzanne M.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
A longitudinal investigation of the ways policymakers and practitioners in California, Michigan, and South Carolina view curricular reform in elementary mathematics and literacy instruction shows the complexities involved in "updating" teachers' professional development. Curriculum standards and frameworks are no substitute for the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Learning, Literacy Education