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Catania, Roger P. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2021
School district business practices are rarely examined for their impact on the school's educational mission. However, institutional purchasing brings school districts into direct contact with corporate partners whose employment practices contradict the school's mission for equity, mobility, and social equality. Too often districts fail to question…
Descriptors: School Districts, Expenditures, Purchasing, Social Justice
Stark Education Partnership, 2018
Within the context of this paper, a balanced, or year-round, school year calendar is not one that necessarily increases either the length or number of school days. It is one that provides for "more continuous learning" by dividing up the traditional summer break into shorter intersessions during the year. It might seem to be a…
Descriptors: Year Round Schools, Extended School Year, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Kowal, Julie; Ableidinger, Joe – Public Impact, 2011
In recent years, national policymakers have placed new emphasis on "school turnarounds" as a strategy for rapid, dramatic improvement in chronically failing schools, calling on education leaders to turn around performance in the 5,000 lowest-achieving schools nationwide. This goal may seem daunting, given the dismal success rates of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Evidence, Business, Nonprofit Organizations
Calkins, Andrew; Guenther, William; Belfiore, Grace; Lash, Dave – Mass Insight Education (NJ1), 2007
Despite steadily increasing urgency about the nation's lowest-performing schools--those in the bottom five percent--efforts to turn these schools around have largely failed. Marginal change has led to marginal (or no) improvement. These schools, the systems supporting them, and the management of the change process require fundamental rethinking,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Partnerships in Education, Educational Improvement, Accountability
Allen, Lili; Steinberg, Adria – Jobs for the Future, 2004
A growing number of school districts around the country are using small school development as a central strategy for improving high schools and overhauling the way the district itself does business. Driven by an increasing sense of urgency and frustration with reforms that fail to fundamentally change the quality of instruction or the nature of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Change, School Restructuring, Small Schools