Purpose: The study examines why the logic of a performance management system,
supported by the federal Teacher Incentive Fund, might be faulty. It does this by exploring …

Background: There is limited understanding about whether and how improvement
interventions are effective in supporting failing healthcare organisations and improving the …

Purpose: This article seeks to enhance our understanding of the ever-present challenge of
developing organizational capacity to implement complex education reform initiatives. We …

Abstract The Chinese province of Shanghai has gained international recognition as a high
performing education system with strong teaching and learning outcomes. One …

This article analyzes a novel effort to strengthen the preparation of both practitioner-scholars
and education researchers. It describes a university–district partnership that offers graduate …

This study investigated the relationship between principal leadership behaviors and the
level of teacher motivation in a specific region of Virginia, within school divisions that have at …

Evaluators frequently confront situations in which local programs struggle to meet the
expectations and requirements specified by the external program funder. How can …

This book provides an in-depth analysis of a performance-based pay initiative and
crystalizes the design issues and implementation challenges that confounded efforts to …

Unexplored Conditions of Charter School Principals: An Examination of the Issues and
Challenges for Leaders, explores contemporary policy issues confronting charter school …

Our world today is more interconnected than ever before due to unprecedented levels of
economic, political, social, and cultural globalization. There is growing recognition among …