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Jaumont, Fabrice – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This discussion encompasses the specifics of a partnership between leading U.S. foundations---the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation. This analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Philanthropic Foundations, Educational Development, Higher Education
Wallace, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative critical multi-case study examines the nature of resistance as it emerges within the work of two urban secondary teachers acting as teacher educators, each teaching a secondary teacher preparation course within their own respective school context. Both research sites are discursively and functionally similar in terms of their…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Educators
Kindred, Donna Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The 21st-century job description for school principals requires greater areas of leadership and accountability utilizing student data to improve instruction as mandated by state legislative reforms. The Principal's accountability is measured using the principal evaluation system. The general problem is that many principal evaluation systems are…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Change
Moreno, Carlos Ivan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores and explains the organizational responses of Mexican public state universities to an ambitious incentive-based policy created by the federal government in 2001: "The Integral Program for Institutional Strengthening" ("PIFI"). Drawing upon literature on organizational-environmental relationships and on…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Governance, Observation, Interviews
Stoltzfus, Kimberly Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The problem of information sharing and coordination was made starkly evident by the September 11th attacks. September 11th illuminated the problems that justice agencies had in sharing information in a timely and collaborative nature without an interoperable data-sharing system. A number of government audits and justice agency leaders have sought…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Information Processing, Information Management, Information Security
Davies, Todd Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the prevailing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandate as an effective platform to improve schools. The data compiled for use in this study represented 426 high schools in Pennsylvania and were retrieved from publicly accessible, state-sponsored sources. The statistical methodologies from the Pennsylvania Value-Added…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Accountability, Program Effectiveness, Federal Programs