scholarly journals AN EXAMINATION OF ONE FACTOR IN SCHOOL REFORM: INCREASED TEACHER ACCOUNTABILITY IN TWO URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (27) ◽  
pp. 329-344
Author(s):  
Nadine Bonda
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
School Districts ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Standardized Testing ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban School Districts ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach

Beginning in 2009, and with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, school districts across the United States began to be held to higher standards and their progress publicly reported.  Student achievement began to be measured by standardized testing and great efforts were being made to reduce the achievement gap. This paper is based on a five-year study of teacher evaluation in two urban districts in Massachusetts where improving teacher practice was seen as an important factor in raising student achievement. This research studied efforts to address those teachers who were identified as underperforming and were supported through individual improvement plans.  This paper used a case study approach to show what the practices of a sampling of these teachers looked like, teachers’ reactions to being rated unsatisfactory, and teachers’ reactions to the improvement planning process.

Cybercitizens at Schools

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-117
Author(s):  
Irene Linlin Chen ◽  
Libi Shen
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach

In recent decades, cyberethics, cybersecurity, and cybersafety have been the center of interest at schools. This chapter uses a case study approach to describe the issue of cyberethics, cybersafety, and cybersecurity (3Cs) as well as how problems of these three Cs are intermingled to become general cyberethics issues for the society. The chapter also promotes good cybercitizens at schools because it is of great importance for the school districts to take some measures to improve students' knowledge and awareness of cyberethics, cybersafety, and cybersecurity, to enhance the safety and security of school infrastructure, to avoid cyberbullying, to ensure students are good cybercitizens, and to help train teachers to be cyber professionals.

scholarly journals An Empirical And Qualitative Study Of The Strategic Planning Process Of A Higher Education Institution

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Aleong
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Physical Assets

This paper discusses whether there are differences in performance based on differences in strategy. First, an attempt was made to determine whether the institution had a strategy, and if so, did it follow a particular model. Major models of strategy are the industry analysis approach, the resource based view or the RBV model and the more recent, relational model. The next step was determining whether the institution actually implemented the strategy by allocating resources. Finally an attempt was made to find out whether any of the models influenced the performance of one higher education institution and whether one model resulted in greater performance than another. Performance was defined as improvements in enrollment, operating surpluses, investments in physical assets and capital structure. The research design was the case study approach. The methods of analysis were qualitative, using content analysis, as well as quantitative. The results showed that there were significant differences in performance between the institution with the well-defined and implemented strategy and other institutions in the same religious and geographic classification. This research should add to the knowledge base in seeking to improve Higher Education.

BARTER EXCHANGES AND SMALL BUSINESS: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE TRANSFERABILITY OF THE US MODEL TO EUROPE

1999 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 313-330
Author(s):  
CAROL A. FORBES ◽  
NIGEL M. HEALEY
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Small Business ◽  
The United States ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Us ◽  
Successful Transfer

This paper explores the phenomenon of barter exchanges, which have become widespread in the United States and provide small retailers and service companies with a means of trading goods or services directly with each other. Using a case study approach in the United States, the papers examines the mechanics of barter exchanges and the advantages and disadvantages to its users in the small business sector. It then considers the spread of barter exchanges to Europe and, using a questionnaire survey, identifies a range of obstacles to the successful transfer of this US model.

scholarly journals Strategi Produk Pemasaran Produk Pertahanan dan Keamanan PT Pindad (Persero)

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210
Author(s):  
Jalesita Putri Pramitha ◽  
Mohamad Syahriar Sugandi ◽  
Asaas Putra
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
Corporate Communication ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

Pindad is an only defense industry that produces weaponry in Indonesia, strives to achieve the autonomy of Indonesia’s primary weaponry defense system. In achieving those objectives, Pindad implemented a marketing communication strategy to carry out about introduction and sales activities for the product, spreading the message nationality, and corporate communication activities. The purpose of this research to see how the process of the communications strategy marketing conducted by Pindad. This research used qualitative methods with a case study approach, and data collection was carried through in-depth interviews and observation. The research showed how the planning process, organizing, actuating, and evaluation by Pindad. Marketing Communication by Pindad departs on the segmentation of different audiences, Pindad divides the company’s focus on the Marketing Departement for the special segment and the Corporate Communication Department for the general segment. In build marketing communication messages, Pindad includes nationality messages to cultivate the product user and society. The marketing communications is also used the communication business cooperation with the other government, company, and marketing sales directly to the intended segment.

Government on the Silver Screen: Contemporary American Cinema's Depiction of Bureaucrats, Police Officers, and Soldiers

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (03) ◽  
pp. 569-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Pautz ◽  
Megan K. Warnement
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Popular Films ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The Government

AbstractMovies continue to be the most accessible art form to Americans and that reach allows films to have a tremendous effect on moviegoers. With more than a billion movie tickets sold annually in the United States, the ability of movies to influence the perceptions of moviegoers is pronounced. Frequently, the government is part of those depictions. Although film is routinely studied in a host of disciplines, a focus on the portrayal of government generally and government officials more specifically, remains elusive. Instead of using a case-study approach, we examine recent, popular films to investigate how government is portrayed generally and how individual governmental characters are depicted. For our sample, we use the top-10 box office grossing films from 2000 to 2009 to assess how government is depicted in the films most likely seen by the majority of movie-watching Americans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that films generally have a mixed view of government with more negative depictions than positive. However, in examining bureaucrats, police officers, soldiers, and politicians, we found a much more positive depiction of these individual government characters. Americans may view government negatively, but in film they see positive depictions of individual civil servants.

The Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity at Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Irene L. Chen ◽  
Libi Shen
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
Teenage Girl ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Cyber Threats ◽  
E Mail ◽  
National Infrastructure ◽  
Shed Light

The 2006 Megan Meier case, where a teenage girl who was bullied on the Internet through e-mail and Myspace which was said to ultimately lead to her suicide, shed light on the cyber bullying issue in schools. This article uses a case study approach to describe how a number of school institutes were grappling with the loss of confidential information and protecting students on the WWW, each through a unique set of circumstances. It will reveal potential reactions of the institutions and possible ways to deal with the cyber threats. With experiences, school districts take measures to offer value education by improving students' knowledge and awareness of Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity (C3) concepts to provide them with the means to protect themselves, and to enhance the safety and security of national infrastructure.

scholarly journals We will be great again: Historical victimhood in populist discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942098585
Author(s):  
Omar Al-Ghazzi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People

This article explores historical victimhood as a feature of contemporary populist discourse. It is about how populist leaders invoke meta-history to make self-victimising claims as a means for consolidating power. I argue that historical victimhood propagates a forked historical consciousness – a view of history as a series of junctures where good fought evil – that enables the projection of alleged victimhood into the past and the future, while the present is portrayed as a regenerating fateful choice between humiliation and a promised golden age. I focus on the cases of the United States and Turkey and examine two key speeches delivered by presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2017. My case-study approach aims to show how the same narrative form of historical victimhood, with its temporal logic and imaginary, latches on widely different contexts and political cultures with the effect of conflating the leader with the people, solidifying divisions in society, and threatening opponents.

Creating New Sport Opportunities for Girls: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization Across Competitive Environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Marlene A. Dixon ◽  
B. Christine Green ◽  
Arden Anderson ◽  
Peter Evans
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Sport Programs

Adolescent sport participants, particularly girls, continue to drop out of sport at alarmingly high rates, which presents an opportunity for new sport programs to enter the marketplace to better cater to those participants. Starting new sport programs, however, presents significant challenges, including acquiring and mobilizing resources in innovative ways. Using theory in sport development and the resource-based view, the authors examined six emergent sport programs for girls within the United States and United Kingdom to identify the resources obtained and mobilized to create new and distinctive sport opportunities in a crowded marketplace. Following a case study approach, data from site visits and interviews with 137 individuals were analyzed using within- and across-case analysis. The findings reveal the resources needed to grow the programs, the ways in which those resources are attained, and strategies to mobilize resource bundles to maximize sport opportunities by differentiating programs from traditional, mainstream sport opportunities. The findings also highlight the distinctive opportunities and challenges for sport organizers in both top-down and bottom-up sport development systems. This study informs theory in sport development and provides insight for creatively designing and delivering sport opportunities that expand overall sport participation for adolescent girls.

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