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How Principals "Bridge And Buffer" The New Demands Of Teacher Quality And Accountability: A Mixed-Methods Analysis Of Teacher Hiring, Stacey A. Rutledge, Douglas N. Harris, William K. Ingle
How Principals "Bridge And Buffer" The New Demands Of Teacher Quality And Accountability: A Mixed-Methods Analysis Of Teacher Hiring, Stacey A. Rutledge, Douglas N. Harris, William K. Ingle
School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications
In this mixed-methods study, we examine the degree to which district-and building-level administrators accommodate teacher-quality and test-based accountability policies in their hiring practices. We find that administrators negotiated local hiring goals with characteristics emphasized by federal and state teacher-quality policies, such as knowledge of the subject and teaching skills. While district administrators and principals largely "bridged" to external certification requirements, some principals "buffered" their hiring decisions from the pressures of test-based accountability. Principals who bridged to test-based accountability gave greater weight to subject knowledge and teaching skills. We find that bridging and buffering differs by policy and cannot be easily …
Sites Of Refuge: Refugees, Religiosity, And Public Schools In The United States, Bruce A. Collet
Sites Of Refuge: Refugees, Religiosity, And Public Schools In The United States, Bruce A. Collet
School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications
In this article the author examines public schools in the United States as sites where immigrants and refugees express their religious identities as part of their integration processes. In particular, the author examines the schools as “sites of refuge” for refugee students. Although public schools provide refugees with opportunity for study without regard to race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion (areas of potential persecution under the 1951 UN Convention Regarding the Status of Refugees), owing to their liberal and secular nature they necessarily put constraints on the degree to which students may exercise their …