COVID-19-associated school closures and related efforts to sustain education and subsidized meal programs, United States, February 18-June 30, 2020. by Nicole Zviedrite, Jeffrey D Hodis, Ferdous Jahan, Hongjiang Gao, Amra Uzicanin

“…By March 30, 2020, all but one US public school districts were closed, representing the first-ever nearly synchronous nationwide closure of public K-12 schools in the US. …”
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Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) to Education by Joseph M. Woodside, Shahram Amiri

“…Similarly, many school districts are beginning to implement BYOT policies and programs to improve educational learning opportunities for students who have a wide variety of technology devices. …”
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WORKFLOW AUTOMATION WITH POSTGIS TOPOLOGY by Anders Møller Jacobsen

“…This paper presents the findings of creating this setup with the case of school districts, and creates a foundation for an automated editing process to be integrated with a webGIS application.…”
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Modélisation de répartition d’élèves et délimitation de secteurs scolaires en milieu urbain by Théophile Emmanouilidis

“…It addresses the issue of school transportation and describes the approach used to design new school districts. To carry out this task a regularized version of the optimal transportation problem was developed to model students-to-school closest assignment. …”
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Relationships between District Size, Socioeconomics, Expenditures, and Student Achievement in Washington by Vince Diaz

“…The convenient sample was 82 Washington State 2nd-Class school districts with enrollments between 500-2,000 students. …”
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Why We Can’t Wait: A Guide for Black Student Achievement Programs by Gilman W. Whiting, Julia L. Nyberg

“…Educators can play a vital role in the efforts to build and sustain BSAPs at their school sites and school districts.…”
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An Analysis of the 2013 Program Evaluation Proposals for the School Leadership Preparation Program by Karen Sanzo

“…SLP projects provide a unique opportunity for participants in the field to explore innovative leadership preparation and development and their impact on program participants, schools, school districts, and students. The article begins with an overview of the SLP, the changing field of leadership preparation, and current research in the field. …”
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Implementing new technologies in a middle school curriculum: a rural perspective by Tandra L. Tyler-Wood, Deborah Cockerham, Karen R. Johnson

“…The study involved teachers and seventh grade students in two Title I rural Texas school districts and was framed through a constructivist lens using a project-based approach. …”
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Measuring Competition: Inconsistent definitions, inconsistent results. by Matthew Allen Linick

“…There is a developing literature examining how charter schools, through the effects of competition, impact performance in public school districts and district-run public schools, also known as the second-level effects of competition. …”
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Multiple Points of Contact: Promoting Rural Postsecondary Preparation through School-Community Partnerships by Nathan F. Alleman, Neal L. Holly

“…In this analysis of six small rural school districts in Virginia we show how the broad participation of community groups and individuals supports academic achievement as well as preparation and aspirations for postsecondary education. …”
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Schools at the center of a public health emergency: leveraging schools for pediatric COVID-19 vaccination by Sara Bode, Mary Kay Irwin, Hannah Palme', Daniel Skinner

“…This collaboration resulted in a significant increase in vaccine access carried out through on-site vaccination clinics established in 20 local public and private school districts. Key strategies identified through the process included collaboration with school districts, local hospitals, and the public health department; calibrating program size to each site and number of vaccines needed; and coordination of team member roles. …”
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Multiple perspectives accountability systems: A perspective from Vermont by Amy Fowler

“…In response to Bae’s (2018) Redesigning systems of school accountability: A multiple measures approach to accountability and support, this commentary expands on some key considerations for states and school districts as they seek different ways to support school improvement while also addressing the competing demands of educators, policymakers, and the public. …”
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An implementation analysis of a Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) teacher professional development program by Amanda M. Tazaz, Robert C. Schoen, Robert C. Schoen

“…The present study provides an evaluation of the implementation of a Cognitively Guided Instruction mathematics teacher professional development as part of a large scale randomized controlled trial with teachers in first- and second- grade in eleven elementary schools in two adjacent school districts. We developed a measure of fidelity of implementation and used it during the in-person training sessions to determine the extent to which the training program was implemented as intended. …”
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The Balanced Curriculum Model by David A. Squires

“…The Balanced Curriculum is a web-based tool that school districts use to create, align, assess, and manage their curriculum development and implementation. …”
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A sense of belonging: The role of higher education in retaining quality STEM teachers. by Meena M Balgopal, Andrea E Weinberg, Laura B Sample McMeeking, Danielle E Lin Hunter, Diane S Wright

“…At three points during the pandemic, we surveyed early career teachers who were supported by the National Science Foundation as they began teaching in high-needs school districts. Teachers who felt connected to their professional and academic communities reported intentions to remain in the profession, while those who felt isolated reported intentions of leaving. …”
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The derailing impact of content standards–an equity focused district held back by narrow mathematics by Tanya LaMar, Miriam Leshin, Jo Boaler

“…Many school districts strive to achieve high mathematics achievement and equitable outcomes. …”
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The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity by Jessica Drescher, Anne Podolsky, Sean F. Reardon, Gabrielle Torrance

“…We use nearly 430 million standardized test scores, including test scores from more than 6,500 rural school districts, to describe educational opportunity in rural America. …”

Creating Highly Qualified Teachers by Dawn L. Mollenkopf

“…The “highly qualified teacher” requirement of No Child Left Behind has put pressure on rural school districts to recruit and retain highly qualified regular and special education teachers. …”
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An Examination of Resiliency in Rural Special Education by Gregory C. Zost

“…Retention of rural special education teachers is a dilemma for many school districts. Districts in rural areas suffer from a lack of qualified special educaiton teachers. …”
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Considerations for mitigating COVID-19 related risks in schools by Amy Gimma, Sham Lal

“…As the new school year begins in the United States, school districts will be tasked with providing in-person teaching while keeping children and school staff safe, an increasingly difficult goal in the presence of the COVID-19 delta variant. …”
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