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Kaimal, Girija; Jordan, Will J. – Teachers College Record, 2016
Context: Policymakers have increasingly advocated for incentive-based approaches for improving urban schools. Purpose of the study: Few studies have examined the implementation of incentive based approaches in the urban charter school context. This paper presents research findings from a 4-year longitudinal study of the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Incentives, Teacher Competencies
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Jordan, Will J. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
Defining equity within the context of a diverse, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural society, and one where social class strongly influences one's life chances is problematic. This chapter reexamines equity in an attempt to advance the discourse beyond the debate about strategies to close the achievement gap between White…
Descriptors: Social Class, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement