Studying Micro-Processes of School-Based Educators' Use of Data in Cross-School Qualitative Research Apr 2007 Suzanne Blanc, Katrina E. Bulkley, Jolley Bruce Christman, Ruth Curran Neild, Eva Travers

This paper was presented at the American Education Research Association's 2007 annual conference. While there is a great deal of enthusiasm for collection and use of student data by educators, litt...

Supporting New Teachers in the City May 2005 Elizabeth Useem, Ruth Curran Neild

In 2002, new teacher retention was a major problem in the Philadelphia school district: less than half of new teachers were staying in the district after three years on the job. Useem and Neild det...

The Quest for Quality: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Philadelphia - Executive Summary 2005 Ruth Curran Neild, Elizabeth Useem, Elizabeth Farley

In this executive summary to the second report on teacher quality in Philadelphia, the authors revisit the issues of declining rates of teacher certification, high rates of teacher turnover, elevat...

The Quest for Quality: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Philadelphia 2005 Ruth Curran Neild, Elizabeth Useem, Elizabeth Farley

In this second report on teacher quality in Philadelphia, the authors revisit the issues of declining rates of teacher certification, high rates of teacher turnover, elevated attrition rates in hig...

Commentary: The Yet-Untried Ways to Fix Phila.'s Schools Mar 2004 Ruth Curran Neild, Elizabeth Useem

This commentary in the Philadelphia Inquirer builds off of some of the findings 'Once and For All: Placing a Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Philadelphia Classroom.' and a coalition of 23 organiz...

Once & For All: Placing a Highly-Qualified Teacher in Every Philadelphia Classroom Sep 2003 Ruth Curran Neild, Elizabeth Useem, Eva Travers, Joy Lesnick

This report examines the current status of teacher quality in the city and what the School District of Philadelphia is now doing to ensure that all classrooms have highly trained, motivated, and kn...

Once & For All: Placing a Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Philadelphia Classroom - Executive Summary Sep 2003 Ruth Curran Neild, Elizabeth Useem, Eva Travers, Joy Lesnick

Executive Summary of the report.

Teachers in the School District of Philadelphia: Tables on Teacher Retention and the Distribution of Teachers' Certification Levels and Experience in the District by School Type, Poverty Level, and School Racial Composition Feb 2003 Ruth Curran Neild, Kurt Spiridakis

This report summarizes findings from an analysis carried out by the authors on a data set representing all teachers employed in the School District of Philadelphia over the three-year period 1999-2...

Preliminary Results: Philadelphia New Teacher Survey Nov 2002 Ruth Curran Neild, Kurt Spiridakis

The authors designed and administered a survey to new teachers entering the Philadelphia school system in 2002 in order to gather information about the teachers' experiences with hiring, school pla...