UNION CONTRACTS AND TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Union Contracts and Teacher Professional Development

In this article, I report the results of an investigation that examined the impact of teacher union contracts on the development of professional learning communities in schools.There are three primary sources of data used in the study: 1) 100 written teacher union contract documents; 2) structured interview data from 21 educators (school superinten

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Seeking Racial and Ethnic Parity in Preschool Outcomes

Montessori pedagogy is a century-old, whole-school system increasingly used in the public sector.In the United States, public Montessori schools are typically Title I schools that mostly serve children of color.The present secondary, exploratory data analysis examined outcomes of 134 children who entered a lottery for admission to public Montessori

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