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Ruth Curran Neild

Recent Publications by Ruth Curran Neild

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Teacher Mobility in the School District of Philadelphia, 2009-10 through 2015-16

PERC research is produced through collaboration between researchers from Research for Action and the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of Research and Evaluation. For more information, please visit phledresearch.org. Teachers are the most important influence…

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Making the Most of Interim Assessment Data: Lessons from Philadelphia – Executive Summary

This is the executive summary of RFA’s report, Making the Most of Interim Assessment Data: Lessons from Philadelphia.  Under No Child Left Behind, urban school districts have increasingly turned to interim assessments, administered at regular…

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Preliminary Results: Philadelphia New Teacher Survey

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 placement, class and grade assignment, school…

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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

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 1999-2000 to 2001-2002. In addition,…

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Supporting New Teachers in the City

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 detail…

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The Quest for Quality: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Philadelphia

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 high-povery, low-performing schools, and highly centralized…

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Going Small: Progress and Challenges of Philadelphia’s Small High Schools

Between 2003 and 2007, and without significant outside funding, the School District of Philadelphia created 25 new small high schools. This study, begun by Research for Action in 2006, follows the start-up and early implementation…

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Making the Most of Interim Assessment Data: Lessons from Philadelphia

Under No Child Left Behind, urban school districts have increasingly turned to interim assessments, administered at regular intervals, to help gauge student progress in advance of annual state exams. These assessments have spawned growing debate…
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Key Projects by Ruth Curran Neild

Afterschool Programs: A Review of Evidence Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

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Examining the Fiscal Impact of Charter School Expansion

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An Evaluation of the Center for Literacy’s Integrated Literacy Model at West Philadelphia High School

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