For over 30 years, proponents of district effectiveness have promoted a fairly consistent set of key practices to enable district-wide improvement; yet, the state of district effectiveness has changed very little. This paper examined three decades of research on district practices associated with school performance and student achievement to gain a better understanding of the utility of this research-base in fostering district improvement. This study used a sample of 98 peer reviewed journal articles, reports, books and book chapters, and working papers to explore (1) patterns in the research design by categorizing research types and reporting sampling methods, such as sample size and sample type; (2) patterns of district characteristics in...
One requirement put forth by national and state-level policy (e.g., Every Student Succeeds Act) is t...
Effective school research focuses school improvement on the variables that are within the control of...
Current policies place unprecedented demands on districts to use evidence to guide their educational...
District effectiveness research (DER) is an emerging field concerned with identifying the organizati...
School districts in the United States are an active area of study in education research as findings ...
The purpose of this study is to apply hierarchical linear growth modelling to district demographic a...
Expectations for the role of research in educational improvement are high. Meeting these expectation...
Are changing conditions affecting the capacity of districts to provide focus, to coordinate support,...
High stakes accountability (HSA) reforms were enacted in state after state and federally through the...
Those who seek to reform our public schools often argue that school performance would improve if onl...
For a variety of reasons described in the paper, improving the performance of urban school districts...
As a local education agency, school districts play an important role in providing instructional supp...
The purpose of this study was to examine the efforts of school districts in developing and sustainin...
Introduction: Across the globe, many national, state, and district level governments are increasingl...
The purpose of this study was to determine what size district (or range of sizes) better fosters an ...
One requirement put forth by national and state-level policy (e.g., Every Student Succeeds Act) is t...
Effective school research focuses school improvement on the variables that are within the control of...
Current policies place unprecedented demands on districts to use evidence to guide their educational...
District effectiveness research (DER) is an emerging field concerned with identifying the organizati...
School districts in the United States are an active area of study in education research as findings ...
The purpose of this study is to apply hierarchical linear growth modelling to district demographic a...
Expectations for the role of research in educational improvement are high. Meeting these expectation...
Are changing conditions affecting the capacity of districts to provide focus, to coordinate support,...
High stakes accountability (HSA) reforms were enacted in state after state and federally through the...
Those who seek to reform our public schools often argue that school performance would improve if onl...
For a variety of reasons described in the paper, improving the performance of urban school districts...
As a local education agency, school districts play an important role in providing instructional supp...
The purpose of this study was to examine the efforts of school districts in developing and sustainin...
Introduction: Across the globe, many national, state, and district level governments are increasingl...
The purpose of this study was to determine what size district (or range of sizes) better fosters an ...
One requirement put forth by national and state-level policy (e.g., Every Student Succeeds Act) is t...
Effective school research focuses school improvement on the variables that are within the control of...
Current policies place unprecedented demands on districts to use evidence to guide their educational...