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Campo-Contreras, Susana – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of the study was to develop a better understanding of the allocation of resources used to improve student learning outcomes in three middle schools within a Charter Management Organization (CMO). The three middle schools that participated in the study have similar demographics and serve students in low socio-economic areas of Los…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Charter Schools, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement
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Smeyers, Paul – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2008
This paper attempts to take seriously the claim that we can look for causes in order to understand the reality we live (in), and focuses therefore primarily on "the natural world". It will be argued that even if we were to fully endorse the programme of looking for antecedents, a dominant driver for many educational researchers, this would still…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Policy, Epistemology, Educational Environment