The proposed framework could provide guidance for policymakers considering new efforts at improving schools through the production and dissemination of educational data.
Education
Despite decades of traditional policy approaches to closing the achievement gap, disparities in educational attainment still exist by race and socioeconomic economic circumstances. The Price Center conducts research to develop, scale, and diffuse new models and processes to improve educational attainment across all grade levels, including postsecondary education.
Evaluating Teachers in the Big Easy: How Organizational Context Shapes Policy Responses in New Orleans
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Year: 2017
Although multiple-measure teacher evaluation systems have gained popularity in the United States, few studies have examined their implementation or how they are shaped by organizational context. New Orleans provides a strategic case to examine the enactment of a state teacher … Continue reading
Building Organizations to Change Communities: Educational Entrepreneurs in Poor Urban Areas
In K. Golden-Biddle and J. Dutton (eds.), Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations.
Year: 2012
This chapter focuses on charter schools in poor urban areas. Charter schools are an organizational form that emerged in the early 1990s as one potential solution to failing public schools. Rather than address the performance of charter schools relative to … Continue reading