THE ORION PROJECT: CONNECTING A COMMUNITY by Richard M. Rhodes, Barbara Walker

“…El Paso Community College, in collaboration with El Paso Independent School District and the University of Texas at El Paso, have begun work to bring together all of El Paso’s independent networks into a single high-speed community network that provides online access and delivery of K-Gray education. …”
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The “Good” Schools: Academic Performance Data, School Choice, and Segregation by David M. Houston, Jeffrey R. Henig

“…Participants choose between three randomly sampled elementary schools drawn from the same school district. The provision of status information guides participants toward schools with higher achievement status and fewer Black, Hispanic, and economically disadvantaged students. …”
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Coaching for Better Teaching: A Study on Student-Centered Instructional Coaching by Serpil TEKIR

“…The study employed a qualitative phenomenological research design to investigate the student-centered coaching practice of a school district in Northern USA. Qualitative data collected from seven teachers and three coaches who were conveniently available to participate in the study through semi-structured interviews were subjected to content analysis. …”
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Factors that influence public school principals’ professional discretion: Perspectives of South African public-school principals by René Beyers, André Du Plessis

“…Even though public-school principals within a particular school district operate under the same set of policies, it is evident that some principals are more inclined to apply professional discretion than others. …”
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The efficacy of exergames for social relatedness in online physical education by Brian J. Kooiman, Dwayne P. Sheehan

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Factors that influence public school principals’ professional discretion: Perspectives of South African public-school principals by René Beyers, André Du Plessis

“…Even though public-school principals within a particular school district operate under the same set of policies, it is evident that some principals are more inclined to apply professional discretion than others. …”
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Premature celebrations: The persistence of inter-district funding disparities by Bruce Baker, Kevin G. Welner

“…Two interlocking claims are being increasing made around school finance: that states have largely met their obligations to resolve disparities between local public school districts and that the bulk of remaining disparities are those that persist within school districts. …”
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From Sharks to "The Big Ugly" by Kristin Rearden, Joy Bertling

“…These sessions focused specifically on PBE within the discipline of art for K-12 art educators in a geographically-large southeastern school district. Through surveys, observations, interviews, and document analysis of curricular materials, the researchers investigated the teacher’s experiences with PBE as she taught art in a rural area of the district. …”
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Establishing a common vocabulary of key concepts for the effective ımplementation of applied behavior analysis by Traci M Cihon, Joseph H Cihon, Guy M. Bedient

“…The present paper provides a case example of the development of a shared vocabulary, using plain English when possible, among supervisors and supervisees at a large public school district in which behavior analytic services were provided for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. …”
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Professional Development on a Sustainable Shoestring: Propagating Place-Based Art Education in Fertile Soil by Bertling Joy, Rearden Kristin

“…In this study, a bottom-up approach for expanding the reach of place-based art education (PBAE) was implemented with teachers (n=11) from a school district in the southeastern United States through two sequential professional development workshops. …”
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Welcome to the Hive! Honey Bee 4-H Project Book by Megan Hammond, Amy T. Vu, Mary Bammer, Emily Helton, Karen Henry, Jessica Sullivan, James D. Ellis

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Assessment of Language and Literacy in Children Who Are d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing by Lianna Pizzo, Amanda Chilvers

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Beyond schooling: Push and pull strategies to integrate immigrants in the community by Fernando Naiditch

“…This article describes a project in a school district in New Jersey that focuses on integrating immigrant families in the community. …”
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Health, gender and the household: children's growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston, MA and the Ashford School, London, UK by Schneider, EB

“…The data is drawn from two government schools, the Marcella Street Home (MSH) in Boston, MA (1889-1898) and the Ashford School of the West London School District (1908- 1917). The paper provides an extensive discussion of the two schools including the characteristics of the children, their representativeness, selection bias and the conditions in each school. …”

Implementation of staff development program for Malaysian schools by Ab Samad, R.S., Shahdan, A.

“…According to the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (1996), staff development programs can be defined as ongoing learning opportunities made available to teachers through their school or school district. Notably, the staff development program is one of the effective ways to achieve world-class education. …”
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The Impact of Early Robotics Education on Students’ Understanding of Coding, Robotics Design, and Interest in Computing Careers by Gisele Ragusa, Lilian Leung

“…It represents a seven-year study of students ages seven through ten years in a large urban school district. The study engaged a pre–post program comparison of the robotics and coding intervention that focused on children’s improved understanding of robotics in addition to their career aspirations. …”
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What promotes adolescents’ sense of school belonging? Students and teachers’ convergent and divergent views by Wafaa El Zaatari, Ali Ibrahim

“…Quantitative data from 443 male and female 11th graders and 264 of their teachers and qualitative data from 16 students and eight of their teachers in Al Ain public school district were collected. The findings revealed that adolescents perceived parental involvement, classroom practices, teacher-student relationships, safety and school social practices, and peer relationships in novel and different ways to their teachers. …”
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Bridging the Gap Between Farmers and Food Service Directors: The Social Challenges in Farm to School Purchasing by Brandi Janssen

“…This reflective essay provides a case study of local food purchasing at one medium-sized Midwestern public school district. Ethnographic examination of this process shows that local food farmers and school food service buyers have vastly different approaches to food production and handling. …”
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Reform stall: An ecological analysis of the efficacy of an urban school reform initiative to improve students’ reading and mathematics achievement by Marlon C. James, William H. Rupley, Kristin Kistner Hall, Janet Alys Nichols, Timothy V. Rasinski, Willie C. Harmon

“…This article examines the efficacy of the implementation of a program titled Consensus Initiative [pseudonym] in an urban school district that served 20,000 linguistically, economically, and racially diverse students situated in the northeast region of the United States. …”
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Finding Resources to Reduce Class-size by Allan Odden, Sarah Archibald

“…This article discusses how a medium-sized school district in Wisconsin was able to reallocate resources to reduce class sizes in grades K-5 without spending more money or increasing its tax rate. …”
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