Hiring Teachers in New York's Public Schools: Can the Principal Make a Difference?
| Autor: | Frank Papa, Iris A. Baxter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
business.industry Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Principal (computer security) Organizational culture Public relations Organisation climate Education Disadvantaged ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Survey data collection Organizational structure Psychology business Autonomy media_common Causal model |
| Zdroj: | Leadership and Policy in Schools. 7:87-117 |
| ISSN: | 1744-5043 1570-0763 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15700760701655524 |
| Popis: | An analysis of survey data is used to examine the practices used to hire teachers, the level of principal autonomy within the process, the attributes sought in teachers, and to compare each based upon the characteristics of schools and of principals. Findings indicate that urban and low-performing schools (and the principals of these schools) are disadvantaged with respect to their ability to recruit and to hire highly qualified teachers and that, in general, principal autonomy in hiring teachers, teacher hiring practices, the attributes sought in teachers, and the constraints and limitations within the teacher hiring process are largely determined by the organizational structure, culture, and situational context of a school In addition, a causal model is used to examine the extent to which newly hired principals hire teachers with much better (or much worse) qualifications than the teachers hired by their predecessors and to examine the relationship between principal effectiveness, in this regard, and th... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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