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Download full textHagelskamp, Carolin; DiStasi, Christopher – Public Agenda, 2012
Why do some schools in high-poverty communities produce remarkable stories of success while others fail? This study, conducted by Public Agenda and sponsored by the Ohio Business Roundtable, the Ohio Department of Education and The Ohio State University, attempts to shed light on this fundamentally important question by talking directly to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Poverty, Effective Schools Research
Public Agenda, 2012
This is a report on how community stakeholders, including parents, teachers, community leaders and advocates, think about current efforts by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to "turn around" Chicago's lowest-performing schools, and their expectations for future school reform actions. It was prepared by Public Agenda, with support from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Stakeholders, Parents, Public School Teachers
Public Agenda, 2010
This report builds on and extends Public Agenda's ongoing research on the attitudes of various stakeholder groups toward higher education reform. It explores the purpose and promise of more effective engagement of those stakeholders who--at first blush, at least--appear to express the deepest resistance to the productivity agenda: faculty. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Focus Groups, Collective Bargaining, Educational Change
Public Agenda, 2008
In summer and fall of 2007, Public Agenda completed five focus groups with principals in high-needs districts and sixteen one-on-one interviews with superintendents and other high-ranking education officials including a state superintendent of education. Interviews followed a systematic interview guide revolving around two broad questions: (1)…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Focus Groups, Leadership Effectiveness, Instructional Leadership
Johnson, Jean – Public Agenda, 2007
Transforming failing schools presents special leadership challenges. What do successful "turnaround" principals actually do? What skills do they need? Where should we be looking for such leaders and what support do they need? For answers, the Wallace Foundation asked Public Agenda to interview principals currently working in high-needs schools as…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Change, Leadership, Principals
Immerwahr, John; Friedman, Will – Public Agenda, 2005
In an effort to gauge receptiveness to Achieving the Dream, a major initiative to close achievement gaps at the nation's community colleges, the authors chose three participating colleges for an exploratory study. In each of the three communities, they conducted focus groups with relatively understudied stakeholders: full-time and adjunct faculty…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Needs, Community Colleges, Focus Groups
