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A Third Way: The Politics of School District Takeover and Turnaround in Lawrence, Massachusetts
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Schueler, Beth E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2019
Purpose: School district superintendents say politics is the number one factor limiting their performance, yet research provides limited guidance on navigating the political dynamics of district improvement. State takeovers and district-wide turnaround efforts tend to involve particularly heated and polarized debates. Massachusetts' 2012 takeover…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, School Districts, Politics of Education, Educational Improvement
Leadership for Democracy in Challenging Times: Historical Case Studies in the United States and Canada
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Johnson, Lauri; Pak, Yoon – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2018
Purpose: This article focuses on the role of school and district leadership in the development and implementation of reform aimed at increasing racial and religious tolerance. It chronicles the rise of intercultural and democratic citizenship curriculum in three North American sites--Springfield, Massachusetts, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, and San…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries
Educating Amid Uncertainty: The Organizational Supports Teachers Need to Serve Students in High-Poverty, Urban Schools
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Kraft, Matthew A.; Papay, John P.; Johnson, Susan Moore; Charner-Laird, Megin; Ng, Monica; Reinhorn, Stefanie – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2015
Purpose: We examine how uncertainty, both about students and the context in which they are taught, remains a persistent condition of teachers' work in high-poverty, urban schools. We describe six schools' organizational responses to these uncertainties, analyze how these responses reflect open- versus closed-system approaches, and examine how this…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Low Income Students, School Administration
New Teachers' Experiences of Hiring: Late, Rushed, and Information-Poor
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Liu, Edward; Johnson, Susan Moore – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Purpose: Teacher hiring decisions have far-reaching consequences for a school, its students, and faculty. This article examines how new teachers in four states are hired and explores whether the process leads to good matches between these individuals and their schools. The authors conceive of hiring as a two-way process and examine the extent to…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Item Analysis, Teacher Selection
Perceived Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity, and Teacher Burnout.
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Schwab, Richard L.; Iwanicki, Edward F. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1982
A questionnaire survey of a statewide sample of 469 Massachusetts teachers found that role conflict was significantly related to two aspects of teacher burnout, those of emotional exhaustion and negative attitudes toward students, and that role ambiguity was significantly connected to a third aspect, that of feelings of lack of personal…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Problems, Failure, Fatigue (Biology)
Counting on Colleagues: New Teachers Encounter the Professional Cultures of Their Schools.
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Kardos, Susan M.; Johnson, Susan Moore; Peske, Heather G.; Kauffman, David; Liu, Edward – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2001
Investigates second-year Massachusetts teachers' experiences with three professional cultures of their schools: veteran-oriented, novice-oriented, and integrated. Finds, for example, that integrated professional cultures, unlike either veteran- or novice-oriented cultures, provided new teachers with sustained support and collegial exchange…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals
The Regulatory Styles of Statewide Charter School Authorizers: Arizona, Massachusetts, and Michigan.
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Vergari, Sandra – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2000
Charter schools must answer to public entities (bureaucratic accountability) and to participating parents, students, and teachers (market accountability). This study examines bureaucratic accountability, highlighting regulatory approaches of statewide charter-school authorizers in Arizona, Massachusetts, and Michigan. CSA's favor a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Compliance (Legal), Elementary Secondary Education