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Juan Alberto Martinez Acevedo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
City Colleges of Chicago undergo policy changes. In 2010, a reform sought to install accountability and transition City Colleges of Chicago into compliance with government funding requests through Reinvention. Reinvention, in the public view, was hailed as a necessity for a system that could not sustain on its own. It used a shock-system…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Faculty Advisers, Student Mobility, Programs
George R. Duncan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative phenomenological study in the Midwestern United States examined if twenty educators experienced work stress due to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. Additionally, the study inquired if participants experienced work stress with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) legislation. Based on the No Child Left…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Work Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, School Culture
Krzemienski, Joyce – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In today's era of high stakes testing and accountability, school principals are confronted with many difficult challenges in addition to those traditionally experienced by principals given the advent of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the many mandates each school principal must report on annually. With mandated curriculum standards and widespread…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Principals, Stress Variables, Coping
West, Deborah Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This is a qualitative dissertation study about the daily work lives of 21 school principals from 10 states across the nation. The study tells the story of the principals' work lives by featuring their voices. Since the inception of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the principalship has become a position with increased responsibilities and restricted…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Principals, Administrator Role
Mason, Janet Harmon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of high-stakes testing and accountability on teachers' perceptions of their professional identities. Teachers' instructional practice, work environments, and personal factors are now immersed in the context of high-stakes testing and accountability. This context colors the decisions teachers make…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Teacher Effectiveness, Testing, High Stakes Tests
Davis, Cove Johnstone – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many urban schools struggle to retain their best teachers because of challenging work environments, poor salaries, and ineffective school leadership. The additional requirements of the No Child Left Behind legislation for teachers to be highly qualified and the increased academic requirements of raising students to a proficient level in reading…
Descriptors: Evidence, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Federal Legislation