When the Walls Come Down: Evidence on Charter Schools’ Ability to Keep Their Best Teachers Without Unions and Certification Rules

When the walls come tumbling down.

This is a first-person narrative of a dentist's slow slide into alcohol and drug abuse, his denial in the face of a professional intervention, and his eventual acceptance of personal responsibility and recovery. There is also a discussion of the dentist diversion program in Minnesota.

Evidence on Massachusetts’ Charter Schools

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

Do Disadvantaged Urban Schools Lose Their Best Teachers?

Recent research documents substantial variation in teacher quality as measured by value added to student achievement, much of which is not captured by characteristics typically used in the hiring and salary determination processes including post-graduate schooling and experience. Consequently an understanding of the impact of teacher transitions on school quality cannot focus simply on such obs...

the effect of efl teachers beliefs about teaching reading strategies on their students success and motivation in reading comprehension

previous studies regarding teachers’ beliefs have revealed that teachers’ beliefs have influence on their classroom practices. the current study aimed to investigate the effect of teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading strategies on students’ motivation and success in reading comprehension in the context of english teaching as a foreign language in high schools of mazandaran, iran. data were ...