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Cobb, Casey – National Coalition on School Diversity, 2022
In general, controlled school choice policies that aim to integrate schools along the lines of race or ethnicity and socioeconomic status are most often successful in achieving that goal. Unregulated systems of school choice, however, tend to exacerbate school segregation (Cobb & Glass, 2009). This research brief summarizes research about…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Social Class, Race
Alexandra Hay – Journal of Education Policy, 2025
In this article, I present a new conceptual framework constructed using sensemaking theory and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to demonstrate layers of policy enactment. The framework reimagines policy enactment as a sociomaterial ethico-political activity by considering the factors that mediate policy enactment and the assemblages facilitating the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Social Theories, Charter Schools, Theory Practice Relationship
Brady L. Nash – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2024
The emergence of post-truth culture and the spread of dis/misinformation has received a great deal of attention from researchers. Existing approaches to digital information literacy highlight new skills and strategies needed in digital spaces. However, challenges remain, including disconnects between school curricula and out-of-school experiences,…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Middle School Teachers, Literacy Education, Professional Development
Christine Cleary – ProQuest LLC, 2024
New teachers are often assigned an experienced teacher who will serve as a mentor that will work with them during the first year of their initial teaching certificate. Although this is a common practice among states, not much guidance exists of what this mentoring should include or what strategies are the most effective. This study was designed to…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Effectiveness, Mentors
Gayithri Jayathirtha; Deborah Fields; Yasmin Kafai – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Debugging is a challenging yet understudied practice within recent collaborative K-12 physical computing contexts. We examined think-aloud interviews and reflections of seven high school student pairs who debugged researcher-designed buggy electronic textile projects. Objective: We asked: (1) What strategies did student…
Descriptors: High School Students, Problem Solving, Cooperation, Small Group Instruction
Uttermark, Matthew J.; Mackie, Kenneth R.; Weissert, Carol S.; Artiles, Alexandra – Educational Policy, 2024
For decades, charter schools have been promoted as a panacea for increasing competition in the educational marketplace. Supporters argue that increased choice forces neighboring schools to innovate, while opponents contend that charters "skim" students and funds away from traditional public schools (TPS). We test the two differing views…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Traditional Schools, Competition, Academic Achievement
Shenaille Beckley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted longstanding issues in student achievement in the United States, with only 37% of students from grades 4-12 showing proficiency in math and reading, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The East Coast Charter Authorizer (ECCA), which oversees one of the largest and most diverse…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Charter Schools, Urban Schools
Hanine Mansour-Fakih – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative correlational study explored the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic job factors and overall teacher job satisfaction, focusing on their impact on teacher retention in four California charter schools. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between various intrinsic,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Persistence
Bradlee Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study explores teacher support and persistence in a large virtual charter school in the midwestern part of the United States. Using self-determination theory as a theoretical lens, this study examines how the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness of teachers in a virtual charter school are supported or…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Virtual Schools, Charter Schools, Needs
Yongmei Ni; Charisse A. Gulosino; Andrea K. Rorrer; Bill Altermatt – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
High school graduation is a meaningful indicator of student achievement and a stronger predictor of long-term quality of life outcomes compared to student test scores. The existing body of research has been limited on whether charter attendance improves high school graduation and whether charter attendance helps narrow the graduation gap among…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Longitudinal Studies
Karen Francisco; Carol Burris – Network for Public Education, 2023
This investigation focused on two types of charter schools. The first is classical charter schools. These schools identify and market themselves as such, often including the word "classical" in the school's name. The second type of school offers a "back to basics" curriculum without necessarily identifying the curriculum as…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Support, Politics of Education, Christianity
Allison Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed-methods research study explores the barriers preventing parent involvement at a charter school located in the midwestern United States. Parent involvement is a critical component linked to student achievement and success, thus making it an important facet of each student's educational career. However, many parents face obstacles that…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Charter Schools, Barriers, Parent School Relationship
Greaves, Ellen; Wilson, Deborah; Nairn, Agnes – Review of Educational Research, 2023
School-choice programs may increase schools' incentives for marketing rather than improving their educational offering. This article systematically reviews the literature on the marketing activities of primary and secondary schools worldwide. The 81 articles reviewed show that schools' marketing has yet to be tackled by marketing academics or…
Descriptors: Marketing, School Choice, Literature Reviews, Elementary Secondary Education
Badillo-Diaz, Marina Angela – Children & Schools, 2022
Since the establishment of the first charter school in 1991, over 7,000 charter schools have opened across the United States. Charter schools are publicly funded schools that are exempt from some of the local or state regulation and serve as alternatives to the more traditional public and private schools for many children and families. As charter…
Descriptors: School Social Workers, Social Work, Charter Schools, Educational Trends
Leipart, Walter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Successful and high achieving schools have leaders that establish clarity within the school and know they "have a hand in shaping events" and results they want to achieve (Bandura, 2012, p. 11). Successful and high achieving schools not only implement specific research-based practices that help all students succeed, but they also…
Descriptors: Leadership, Behavior, Beliefs, Self Efficacy