A comprehensive, practical guide to using data effectively for school improvement! This hands-on guidebook explains essential statistical and assessment information to help principals make critical and sustainable choices to promote student learning. Broad-based strategies include collecting and analyzing various types of data about student achievement, professional development, allocation of resources, family involvement, and community standards. Part of theLeadership for Learning series, this resource:  Supports school leaders in developing and sustaining continuous improvement  Links data-based decision making with issues of accountability and shared mission and goals  Includes numerous examples and cases, a glossary, school improvement template, sample forms, and data tools

Leading With Data: Pathways to Improve Your School (Leadership for Learning Series)

Education & Teaching

Goldring, Ellen B.

Berends, Mark

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

This hands-on guidebook helps principals collect, analyze, and use data to make meaningful instructional decisions to impact learning, school improvement goals, and accountability issues.

Teacher supply and demand issues are of critical importance as our society enters the 21st century. Over the next decade, about two million new teachers will be needed largely because of a dramatic increase in enrollments and high attrition rates as an aging teacher workforce becomes eligible for retirement. It is important to understand where these teachers will come from and where they will teach. This is especially important for high-poverty districts that tend to have large numbers of students at risk of educational failure. These districts, which also tend to be disproportionately minority, are already facing difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified teachers. Given this, it is important to ask whether we will be able to staff high-risk and high-minority districts. National data show that these districts are staffed predominantly by minority teachers. Thus, the answer to the question of who will staff these districts revolves around whether we will have enough

Staffing At-Risk Districts in Texas: Problems and Prospects

Kirby, Sheila Nataraj

Naftel, Scott

Reference

RAND Corporation

New American Schools (NAS) was established in July 1991, as a private, non-profit corporation funding school reform at the elementary and secondary levels. RAND, in its ongoing role as evaluator of the NAS initiative, has conducted a wide range of studies in an effort to better understand the effects of NAS reform efforts on student outcomes. This book provides a detailed analysis of school and district progress toward adopting NAS designs, including demographic descriptors, survey results and performance outcomes.

Implementation and Performance in New American Schools: Three Years into Scale Up

Politics & Social Sciences

McKelvey, Christopher

Social Sciences

A decade ago, New American Schools (NAS) launched an ambitious effort for wholeschool reform to address the perceived lagging achievement of American students and the lackluster school reform attempts that have produced so few meaningful changes. Rand assessed the effects of NAS designs on classroom practice and student achievement in a sample of schools in a highpoverty district. It found that while highstakes tests may motivate these schools to increase performance, they may also provide disincentives to adopt richer, more indepth curricula that could improve students' learning opportunities.

Challenges of Conflicting School Reforms: Effects of New American Schools in a High-Poverty District 2002

Examines several nationally representative senior high school student cohorts between the early 1970s and to early 1990's to understand trends in the mathematics scores of these different reacialethnic groups.

Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial Ethic Groups

History

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Leading With Data: Pathways to Improve Your School (Leadership for Learning Series)

Leading With Data: Pathways to Improve Your School (Leadership for Learning Series)

Staffing At-Risk Districts in Texas: Problems and Prospects

Implementation and Performance in New American Schools: Three Years into Scale Up

Challenges of Conflicting School Reforms: Effects of New American Schools in a High-Poverty District 2002

Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial Ethic Groups