When is Tenure Long Enough? A Historical Analysis of Superintendent Turnover and Tenure in Urban School Districts

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 615-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Yee ◽  
Larry Cuban
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Urban School Districts ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Superintendent Turnover ◽  
Urban Superintendents ◽  
The Press ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The short tenure and frequent turnover of urban superintendents has been attributed to the growing unmanageability of urban school districts. This instability at the top is said to limit the prospects for sustained reform. In this article, we calculate the average tenure of urban superintendents since the turn of the century. Our research suggests that the tenure of superintendents has been decreasing, but not in a linear fashion and not as precipitously as is often reported in the press. We believe that a complex mix of environmental, local, and professional factors may help explain changes in tenure, but the causal and interactive relationships between them remains a mystery. Nevertheless, our findings suggest the longer-than-anticipated tenures raise questions about the relationship of "short tenures" and the problems facing urban school districts.

scholarly journals The School Climate - Student Achievement Connection

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Shindler ◽  
Albert Jones ◽  
A. Dee Williams ◽  
Clint Taylor ◽  
Hermenia Cardenas
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
School Climate ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Predictive Factor ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Theoretical Implication ◽  
Urban School Districts ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between school climate and student achievement rat- ings in urban school districts in five states (N =230). Many educators view school climate and student achievement as separate considerations. However the results of this study suggest that climate and student achievement were highly related. In fact, the quality of the climate appears to be the single most predictive factor in any school’s capacity to promote student achievement. The findings of the study suggest a se- ries of general and theoretical implication for the field of education. It appears that the use of practices that promote a “psychology of success” lead to greater achievement and higher quality climate, and those that promote a “psychology of failure” lead to under- performance.

scholarly journals Salones darianos: fotografía, arte y literatura en la crónica modernista

(an)ecdótica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-100
Author(s):  
Luis Alberto Salas Klocker ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Photographic Image ◽  
The Press ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Based on what it has been called the salones darianos, that is, the chronicles that Darío wrote about several art exhibitions that he visited, this work aims to reflect on the role that the image played in the cultural project of modernismo. At the turn of the century, the image’s technological reproducibility broke into both the press and art salons. This was perceived by Darío, who explored the relationship of the photographic image with the incipient cultural industries. Less known than Mundial and Elegancias magazines, the first of Darío’s projects that included a strong presence of images, that is, the “Suplemento Semanal Ilustrado” of La Nación, goes beyond the lettered bias of literary criticism and opens new horizons to modernismo studies. Although this magazine was not directly under his direction, it does coincide with one of the high points of his career in the Argentine newspaper. Darío was for a time the main animator of this magazine, so his performance can be read as a scale model of his operations in pursuit of an expanded artistic field.

scholarly journals Building Productive Relationships: District Leaders’ Advice to Researchers

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Harrison ◽  
Kristen Davidson ◽  
Caitlin Farrell
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Urban School Districts ◽  
District Leaders ◽  
Educational Improvement

Expectations for the role of research in educational improvement are high. Meeting these expectations requires productive relationships between researchers and practitioners. Few studies, however, have systematically explored the ways researchers can build stronger, more productive relationships with practitioners. This study seeks to identify such strategies by examining district leaders’ views of how researchers might work with practitioners in more effective, beneficial, and collaborative ways. Through an analysis of 147 interviews with 80 district leaders in three urban school districts, we identify several key pieces of advice highlighted by district leaders for researchers. For researchers, these findings reveal potential strategies for shaping the design, conduct, and communication of their research in order to ensure its usefulness for practitioners. 

‘Sensational Coverage of a Sensational Trial’: Treason, Journalism and the State

2019 ◽  
pp. 130-156
Author(s):  
Katherine Isobel Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Literary Form ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Press ◽  
First Republic ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
The Media ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter Six provides an extended examination of the newspaper reporting of the treason trial of Obafemi Awolowo, the second major treason trial after independence. How the Nigerian press covered the trial illuminates the ways in which legal process as a mode of nation formation was woven into the daily lives of newspaper readers. Moreover, attending to that press coverage illustrates the importance of narrative and literary form in the process of national self-construction. The chapter begins by outlining the relationship of politics and the press in Nigeria before looking at the defining features of the trial itself. The chapter examines how the trial was presented in the press and the readerly engagement that the press sought to foster. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the larger significance of the trial and its coverage in the media at the dawn of Nigeria’s first Republic.

The Out-Rotator of Spin Traveling Wave Pump on Magnetic Fluid

2012 ◽  
Vol 503 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Meng Zhao ◽  
Ji Bin Zou ◽  
Jing Shang
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Fluid ◽  
Traveling Wave ◽  
Magnetic Particles ◽  
Theory Method ◽  
The Press ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Magnetic Field

According to researching the spin traveling wave pump, the relationship of the characteristics of magnetic fluid and the press is investigated under the spin magnetic field by the theory method. The relationship of moving, magnetic field and press is investigated by the decoupled computation between the magnetic field and force. The method is scientificity and rationality by the testing. The distributing shape of magnetic fluid in the pump is affected by the adding magnetic field under the spin magnetic field when the magnetic fluid is filled in the pump. At the same time, the adding magnetic field is affected by magnetic particles of magnetic fluid. The magnetic fluid can be moved by the effect of the adding magnetic field in the pump. The flux of magnetic fluid increases with the magnetic field.

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