Varieties of Knowledge and Skill-Based Pay Design by Anthony Milanowski

“…This article describes the design of knowledge and skill-based pay systems for K-12 teachers in six U.S. school districts and one charter school. Based on a theory of action that relates knowledge and skill- based pay systems to improvements in instruction, and the expectancy theory of motivation, seven dimensions for comparison are identified and the systems are compared based on these dimensions. …”
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Are Big Schools Bad Schools?: Measuring the Effects of the Number and Size of Schools on District Costs and Student Achievement by Jamie Steiner

“…As state governments shrink their budgets, more school districts are debating consolidation. In considering school consolidation, governments must evaluate costs per pupil and student achievement. …”
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The association between the end of court-ordered school desegregation and preterm births among Black women. by Menghan Shen

“…Using multiple difference-in-differences framework that exploits variation in exposure to schools that declared unitary status, it finds that school districts' release from court oversight is associated with a 0.8 percentage point increase in preterm births among Black mothers. …”
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A Struggle to Bridge the Gap: Promoting African American Males in Teacher Education by Vance Vaughn

“…One can find those who are teaching in urban school districts (Lynn, 2002). Sports and entertainment fans inspect the performance of many of the “brothers” on the college and professional levels. …”
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A Panel Data Analysis of the Impacts of Institutional Differences on Local Governments’ Budgetary Decisions by Kim, Soojin, Eom, Tae Ho

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An examination of the bidirectional relationship between federal civil rights guidance and research by Maria M. Lewis, Sarah Kern

“…Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issues policy guidance to help ensure that school districts and universities understand their legal obligations. …”
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2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations To Reduce Transmission by Leslie Dietz, Patrick F. Horve, David A. Coil, Mark Fretz, Jonathan A. Eisen, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg

“…ABSTRACT With the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that results in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), corporate entities, federal, state, county, and city governments, universities, school districts, places of worship, prisons, health care facilities, assisted living organizations, daycares, homeowners, and other building owners and occupants have an opportunity to reduce the potential for transmission through built environment (BE)-mediated pathways. …”
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An Analysis of Principals’ Perceptions of the Primary Teaching Evaluation System Used in Eight U.S. States by Richard L. Dodson

“…Some states’ principals wanted to return control over teacher evaluation systems to local school districts. Most respondents agreed that their version of FfT has improved their school’s instructional program, and they prefer the new instrument over their previous evaluation instrument.…”
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Use of Authentic Materials in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms: Challenges, Reasons, Types and Frequency by Ghuson Orooq, Anwar Hussein Abdel Razeq

“…The participants of the study consisted of all 63 grade ten English as a foreign language teachers in one of the school districts in Palestine. The researches collected both qualitative and quantitative data. …”
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Learning to be a math teacher: What knowledge is essential? by Mary Reid, Steven Reid

“…Research aimed to investigate the development of TCs’ math capacities for effective teaching is important to teachers, school districts, universities, professional learning associations, and policy makers. …”
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Learning to be a Math Teacher: What Knowledge is Essential? by Mary REID, Steven REID

“…Research aimed to investigate the development of TCs’ math capacities for effective teaching is important to teachers, school districts, universities, professional learning associations, and policy makers. …”
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Assessing Community Support for Comprehensive Sexual Health Education in High-risk Florida Schools by Kimberly K. Walker, Ellen J. Schafer, Karen Maziarz, Michael Binder, Danielle Quichocho

“…Descriptive and bivariate statistics were used to analyze 314 survey phone interviews with adults, and thematic analysis was used to analyze eight focus groups with 104 youth living in the high-risk school districts. Survey results showed strong community support for comprehensive SHE with human anatomy and reproduction and HIV and sexually transmitted disease as the most supported contents for both middle (93%, 98%) and high school (93%, 97%). …”
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Exploring the influence of collaborative data-based decision making among teachers in professional learning communities on teaching practice by Blair O’Connor, Mihwa Park

“…Therefore, teachers have been expected to use student assessment data to make informed curricular decisions and adjustments in teaching practice. This has led school districts to turn to data-based decision-making (DBDM) to create an effective process of student assessment data analysis, and reflection during professional learning communities (PLCs). …”
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Identifying protective factors for gender diverse adolescents’ mental health by Melissa K. Holt, Katharine B. Parodi, Frank J. Elgar, Abra Vigna, L. B. Moore, Brian Koenig

“…Here we report findings from a secondary data analysis, in which we address this gap by analyzing cross-sectional survey data (N = 11,264 in the final analytic sample) from a population-based survey of youth in participating school districts in a large Midwestern U.S. county. Relative to cisgender youth with gender conforming expression, transgender youth and cisgender youth with nonconforming gender expression are more likely to experience victimization and severe mental health concerns. …”
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A comparative history from below? by Johannes Westberg

“…In this article, this notion indicates an analysis that does not take national or supranational entities as the point of departure, but instead promotes a comparative history based on the local level (school districts, municipalities, townships). Consequently, the focus of investigations will shift from national politics, transnational circulation of educational ideas, and international conferences, to the mundane history of schooling, covering issues such as local funding, local school politics, and the practical, and often non-event-worthy, realities of schooling. …”
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Діяльність національної мережі партнерства шкіл щодо запровадження співпраці школи, сім'ї та громади (досвід США)... by Наталія Голубкова

“…Partnership of school, family and community is viewed as an educational reform strategy aimed at improving student achievements and provides technical assistance to schools, districts and states that realize the importance of partnership relations between school, family and community…”
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An examination of cross-cultural experiences on developing culturally responsive teacher candidates [version 1; peer review: 3 approved] by Stephanie Jones-Fosu, Brian K. Williams, Tyrette Carter, Nakeshia N. Williams

“…This paper aims at supporting school districts’ need of culturally competent new teachers who have the content knowledge and pedagogy to teach and support culturally and linguistically diverse children. …”
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The challenges of home-based learning in Covid-19 season: An overview of rural school in Sabah, Malaysia by Gurumoorthy Poobalan, Junaidi Asman, Roslee Talip, Rosna Padan, Zulhairul Ramlee, Sukuneswari Kaliappan

“…We expect that the findings of this study will serve as a guide for teachers, schools, district education office management, the State Education Department, and the Ministry of Education Malaysia in developing policies and coordinating the implementation of home-based learning programs in the future.…”
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Impact of the Program in Communities Committed to Abstinence Education by Lisa Lieberman, Haiyan Su

“…Choosing the Best (CTB), a classroom-based abstinence education curriculum, has been implemented in 75 Georgia school districts since 1995. CTB Inc., sought to determine if this popular program had an impact on abstinence attitudes, intentions, and behavior. …”
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Local School Boards and LGBTQ Policy Decisions: A Qualitative Case Study by A. Scott Henderson

“…On 7 September 2022, the Miami-Dade School Board (MDSB), the governing body of one of the largest school districts in the U.S., rejected a resolution requiring the MDSB to observe October 2022 as LGBTQ History Month and directing the district’s superintendent to investigate the feasibility of providing “information and resources” about landmark LGBTQ Supreme Court cases for optional use in high school government classes. …”
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