If We Put Students First, Bad Teachers Are First to Go
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: With state and local budgets under the gun and teacher layoffs on the table, old ways of making personnel decisions should give way to procedures based on a truer understanding of what actually happens in...
Unemployment Statistics on Older Americans : Updated 8/6
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: The recession has increased joblessness among older Americans. These graphs and tables report unemployment rates and how they have varied by age, sex, race, and education since 2007. Read more from this post....
Estimating Principal Effectiveness
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: This paper presents preliminary estimates of key elements of the market for school principals, employing rich panel data on principals from Texas State. The consideration of teacher movements across schools suggests that principals follow patterns...
Triangulating Principal Effectiveness: How Perspectives of Parents, Teachers, and Assistant Principals Identify the Central Importance of Managerial Skills
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: While the importance of effective principals is undisputed, few studies have addressed what specific skills principals need to promote school success. This study draws on unique data combining survey responses from principals, assistant principals, teachers...
Principal Preferences and the Unequal Distribution of Principals across Schools
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: This study uses longitudinal data from one large school district - Miami-Dade County Public Schools, to investigate the distribution of principals across schools. Schools serving many low-income, non-white, and low-achieving students have principals with less...
Principal Time-Use and School Effectiveness
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: To better understand the work lives of principals, this study uses observational time-use data for all high school principals in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Authors examine the relationship between the time principals spent on different...
 
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