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Schueler, Beth E.; Asher, Catherine Armstrong; Larned, Katherine E.; Mehrotra, Sarah; Pollard, Cynthia – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
The public narrative surrounding efforts to improve low-performing K-12 schools in the United States has been notably gloomy. But what is known empirically about whether school improvement works, which policies are most effective, which contexts respond best to intervention, and how long it takes? We meta-analyze 141 estimates from 67 studies of…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Booher-Jennings, Jennifer – American Educational Research Journal, 2005
This article uses two dominant traditions in the organizational study of schools--the neoinstitutional and faculty workplace approaches--to explain an urban elementary school's response to the Texas Accountability System. The findings indicate that teachers, guided by an institutional logic, sought to create the appearance of test score…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Environment, Decision Making, Educational Change