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Gordon, Molly F.; Louis, Karen Seashore – American Journal of Education, 2009
Expanding the sources of leadership in schools has been a reform theme since the mid 1980s. Using exploratory factor analysis and regression, we examine the following questions: (1) How does leadership style affect principals' openness to community involvement? (2) Is a principal's openness to community involvement related to student achievement?…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, Leadership Styles
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2006
Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty is that neighbourhoods measured in available data…
Descriptors: Proximity, Foreign Countries, Neighborhoods, Outcomes of Education