“Taking Care of Your Own”: Parochialism, Pride of Place, and the Drive to Diversify Teaching by James Noonan, Travis J. Bristol

“…As the student population in U.S. public schools becomes increasingly ethnoracially diverse, many school districts and hiring personnel have taken proactive approaches to recruiting teachers of color. …”
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Does Education Cause Spiritual Belief Change? by Donald Thomas Markle

“…Despite this fact, decisions on educational policy, parental home schooling, and even whether to bring legal actions against school districts, often rest on the assumption that education can induce spiritual belief change.  …”
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Effects of a State Mandated Policy (Site-Based Councils) and of Potential Role Incumbents on Teacher Screening Decisions in High and Low Performing Schools. by I. Phillip Young, Kimberly Miller-Smith

“…Although screening decisions were found to be the same for participants affiliated with both low- and high-performing school districts, teachers were more appreciative of candidate’s credentials than either principals or parents.…”
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Processes of reforming: The case of the Norwegian state school inspection policy frameworks by Jeffrey Brooks Hall

“…State school inspection in Norway has undergone multiple reform initiatives from the state level, a system predominantly aimed at controlling legal compliance of school districts and individual schools. Rather than focusing on policy reform, this article draws attention to how enactment of state inspection policy has taken place through institutional and dynamic processes of reforming, within and across hierarchical levels in organisations. …”
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Reports from CITE "Educational Technologies Evaluation in India" by Osterweil, Scot, Shah, Prateek, Allen, Stacey, Groff, Jennifer, Kodidala, Sai Priya, Schoenfeld, Ilana

“…Educational technologies of all types are quickly gaining popularity across the developing world. Governments, school districts, and teachers have made investments in these technologies in hopes that they will aid learning and achievement. …”
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A system approach to the optimal health-care districting by Pezzella, F, Bonanno, R, Nicoletti, B

“…Although developed within the context of health-care services, the approach is general enough to be applicable also to the partition in a given region of other social services, i.e. school districts. © 1981.…”

Universal School Meals and Associations with Student Participation, Attendance, Academic Performance, Diet Quality, Food Security, and Body Mass Index: A Systematic Review by Juliana F. W. Cohen, Amelie A. Hecht, Gabriella M. McLoughlin, Lindsey Turner, Marlene B. Schwartz

“…Research examining the impact of universal free meals on school finances was limited, but suggest that lower-income school districts in the U.S. may have positive financial outcomes from participation in universal free school meal provisions. …”
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125 Galveston County Youth Risk Survey: A Glimpse into Our Children’s Health and Wellbeing by Krista Bohn, Sharon Croisant, Chantele Singleton, John Prochaska, Lance Hallberg

“…METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: While the survey is based on the CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), there was community need for an expanded survey and thus a workgroup was formed to create the Galveston Youth Risk Survey, including members from UTMBs Institute for Translational Sciences, a number of other UTMB departments and Centers, the Research, Education, and Community Health (REACH) Coalition, several school districts, Teen Health Clinic, and a variety of other community health organizations with vested interest. …”
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Making Sense, Making Do: Local District Implementation of a New State Induction Policy by Chad D. Ellis

“…This study examined how local school districts implemented TEAM and identified factors that affected implementation. …”
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Strategies for Recruitment and Retention of Secondary Teachers in Central U.S. Rural Schools by Andrea D. Beesley, Kim Atwill, Pamela Blair, Zoe A. Barley

“…However, when the successful and unsuccessful school districts were compared on the strategies and benefits included in the SASS, the only difference was with signing bonuses, which were offered significantly more often in the unsuccessful group than the successful group. …”
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The influence of social relationships on outcomes in mathematics when using peer tutoring in elementary school by Allen Thurston, Cary Roseth, Tien-Hui Chiang, Victoria Burns, Keith J. Topping

“…Reciprocal peer tutoring in mathematics was conducted with 487, ten to twelve year-old students from 20 elementary schools in three different school districts. The peer tutoring technique, a form of paired mathematics, placed specific emphasis on mediation through strategic metacognition between tutor and tutee. …”
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A Light in Students’ Lives: K-12 Teachers’ Experiences (Re)Building Caring Relationships During Remote Learning by Karyn E. Miller

“…The article concludes with implications for practice and areas for future research as schools, districts, states, and countries consider the “new normal” in K-12 schooling.  …”
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A Study of 5th grade primary school students misconceptions about heat and temperature by Ābed Badriān, Ashraf-alsādāt Shekarbāghāni, Rāmin Pureskandari

“…A sample including 136 primary school students who were studying at the 5th grade in 4 educational school districts of 6th region of Tehran were selected and participated in the study. …”
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Supporting Gifted Education in Rural Schools by Amy Price Azano, Carolyn Callahan, Erika Bass, Michelle Rasheed

“…In this “promising practices” piece, we draw from lessons learned from a larger research study exploring how alternative identification processes and curricular interventions might influence gifted education programming for students in rural school districts. In the larger study we sought to (a) increase the number of rural students identified for gifted education services and (b) provide support for those programs in the form of a place-based language arts curriculum. …”
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An analysis of 15 years of trends in children’s connection with nature and its relationship with residential environment by Haruka Imai, Tohru Nakashizuka, Ryo Kohsaka

“…We used data from a survey conducted in 63 junior high school districts in the city of Sendai in Japan. In these surveys, children were asked whether they had seen 12 species groups within the past year. …”
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Finding Rigor Within a Large-Scale Expansion of Preschool to Test Impacts of a Professional Development Program by Natalia M. Rojas, Pamela Morris, Amudha Balaraman

“…This study aims to examine the impact of investments in PD within the context of an expansion of universal preschool in one of the nation’s largest school districts. We leverage the opportunity provided by a “natural experiment” to estimate PD’s effects that embeds an evidence-based math curriculum in interdisciplinary units of study with coaching support on teacher math practices. …”
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The Influence of the CSU Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program on Undergraduates' Teaching Plans by Cindy Ticknor, Deborah Gober, Tim Howard, Kimberly Shaw, Leigh Mathis

“…In return, students commit to teaching in high-need K-12 school districts. The Noyce Program has had uneven results in increasing the number of teachers in high needs schools. …”
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Panel Data Models for School Evaluation: The Case of High Schools’ Results in University Entrance Examinations by Manuel Salas-Velasco

“…People sometimes make the argument that grades are “inflated”, but many school districts only use outcome-based descriptive methods for school evaluation. …”
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How School and District Leaders Access, Perceive, and Use Research by William R. Penuel, Derek C. Briggs, Kristen L. Davidson, Corinne Herlihy, David Sherer, Heather C. Hill, Caitlin Farrell, Anna-Ruth Allen

“…From a representative sample of school districts across the United States, we surveyed 733 school and district leaders as part of an effort to develop understanding of the prevalence of research use, the nature of leaders’ attitudes toward research, and individual and organizational correlates of research use. …”
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Strengthening Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Culturally Responsive Classrooms Through Exposure, Immersion, and Dialogue by Christina L. Wilcoxen, Amanda L. Steiner, Julie Bell

“…Partnerships between urban school districts, communities, and universities are necessary to strengthen preservice teachers’ application of culturally responsive teaching practices. …”
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