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50 Years of ERIC
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Keaton, Patrick – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The Common Core of Data (CCD) is an annual collection of public elementary and secondary education data by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. The data presented in this report are selected from the three nonfiscal components of the Common Core of Data…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Statistical Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Agencies
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Krücken, Georg; Blümel, Albrecht; Kloke, Katharina – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2013
The managerial turn in academia is currently broadly discussed. Based on empirical data gathered from a sample that includes all German universities, we can give a broad and fine-grained account of this turn. What we can clearly see is that whole new categories of administrative management positions have been created over the last years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Administration, Administrative Organization
Corso, Aileen; Franck, Valerie; Kelliher, Kate; McCorry, Betsy – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
This study looks at the policies and practices shaping teacher quality in the Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD). It is part of a series of analyses by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) in school districts across the nation. Framing this analysis are five policy goals for improving teacher quality: (1) Staffing. Teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Tenure, State Legislation, Academic Achievement
Garcia, Martha; Benitez, Alma – Online Submission, 2011
This article reports on the results of research, the objective of which was to document and analyze the manner in which students relate different representations when solving problems. A total of 20 students attending their first year of university studies took part in the study. In order to design the problem, the underlying information in each…
Descriptors: Personnel Data, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Higher Education
Chambers, Jay G.; Levin, Jesse; Brodziak, Iliana; Chan, Derek – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2010
As a starting point for their analysis of equity, the authors begin their work here with an examination of the relationship between student performance, as measured by the California Academic Performance Index (API), and student needs, as measured by the percentage of students from low-income families (i.e., the percent of students eligible for…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Personnel Data
Chambers, Jay G.; Levin, Jesse; Brodziak, Iliana; Chan, Derek – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2010
Using fiscal data provided by the finance office of the school district, and personnel data obtained from the California Basic Education Data System maintained by the California Department of Education (CDE), the authors present analyses to provide a foundation for local policymakers that may be used to assess whether there are inequities in the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Personnel Data
Chambers, Jay G.; Levin, Jesse; Brodziak, Iliana; Chan, Derek – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2010
Using fiscal data provided by the finance office of the school district, and personnel data obtained from the California Basic Education Data System (maintained by the California Department of Education, or CDE), the authors present analyses to provide a foundation for local policymakers that may be used to assess whether there are inequities in…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Research Reports
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
At the request of the Education Reform Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, the National Council on Teacher Quality undertook an analysis of the teacher policies in the Baltimore City Public Schools. Its analysis looks at the teachers' contract, school board rules and state laws. It also collected personnel data from the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Public Schools, Educational Policy, Content Analysis
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
Staffing each classroom with an effective teacher is the most important function of a school district. Doing so requires strategic personnel policies and smart practices. The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), working with its local partner, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, undertook an analysis of the Boston Public…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Public Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Ingersoll, Richard M.; May, Henry – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2010
This study examines the magnitude, destinations, and determinants of the departures of mathematics and science teachers from public schools. The data are from the National Center for Education Statistics' nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and its longitudinal supplement, the Teacher Follow-up Survey. Our analyses show that…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Science Teachers
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Hewitt, Kimberly Kappler; Chopin, Scarlet Lilian – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2015
Focused on the use of teacher evaluation data, this case was designed for use in two principal licensure courses, one on data literacy and the other on supervision and personnel. The principal of Baker Middle School has been instructed by the superintendent to use data from the state's new teacher evaluation system to determine which teachers…
Descriptors: Personnel Data, Personnel Management, Management Information Systems, Principals
Glazner, Steve, Ed. – APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (NJ3), 2006
The purpose of "Facilities Performance Indicators" is to provide a representative set of statistics about facilities in educational institutions. The second iteration of the web-based Facilities Core Data Survey was posted and available to facilities professionals at more than 3,000 institutions in the Fall of 2005. The website offered a printed…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Costs, Expenditures, School Buildings
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Lochmiller, Chad R. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
In this paper, I use Levin and McEwan's (2001) cost feasibility approach and personnel data obtained from the Superintendent of Public Instruction to estimate the cost of providing coaching support to every newly hired principal in Washington State. Based on this descriptive analysis, I estimate that the cost to provide leadership coaching to…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Coaching (Performance), State Surveys, Personnel Data
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Dow, Mirah J.; McMahon-Lakin, Jacqueline – School Library Research, 2012
To address the presence or absence of school librarians in Kansas public schools, a study using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was designed to investigate staffing levels for library media specialists (LMSs), the label used for school librarians in licensed-personnel data in Kansas, and student achievement at the school level. Five subject areas…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Personnel Data, Academic Achievement
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Engel, Rozlyn C.; Gallagher, Luke B.; Lyle, David S. – Economics of Education Review, 2010
Household disruptions--such as divorce, relocation, and parental absence--have long concerned researchers interested in the educational attainment of children. Here, we consider a plausible source of exogenous variation in work-related parental absences--military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2002-2005 period. Combining the…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Family Work Relationship, Children, Academic Achievement
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