The controversy over what is an appropriate early childhood curriculum has created a need for research instruments designed to measure classroom practices.
For many years, researchers have searched for the factors affecting the use of computers in the classroom.
This paper focuses on school- and classroom-level responses to performance-based accountability.
The primary purpose of this study was to determine if participation in the North Carolina Quality Enhancement Initiative (NC QEI) improved the overall quality of the 26 participating school-age child care pr
Many struggling readers in middle school are disengaged from reading. In addition to low achievement, these students can have low motivation for reading.
A quasi-experimental, treatment-control group investigation was designed to test the effects of introducing research findings from effective teaching and school leadership into ongoing school settings.
In this article I report 5 teachers' understandings of how teacher participation in school decision making has affected school and classroom activity.
This paper presents the findings of a longitudinal, causal comparative investigation of an elementary school cluster grouping program. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies were used.
Some children who transfer into new schools are high-risk candidates for school and later-life difficulties.
We studied the outcome of a professional development opportunity that consisted of 2-week-long resident institutes for teams consisting of a secondary science teacher and two students.