Scott Naftel

Enlisted Management Policies and Practices

A Review of the Literature

This report examines management policies and practises in the military, and their effectiveness, in an attempt to understand how best to manage the en...

Staffing At-risk School Districts in Texas

Problems and Prospects

This report examines demand and supply of minority teachers in Texas. Researchers investigated what defined at-risk districts; how those districts dif...

The Effect of Mobilization on Retention of Enlisted Reservists After Operation Desert Shield/Storm

This report discusses how reserve mobilizations affect the attitudes, perceptions, & behaviors of reservists, their families, & their employers. Under...

Reforming Teacher Education

Teacher education has been subject to both scathing criticism and innumerable efforts designed to reform it or to save it from being dismantled. One o...

Implementation in a Longitudinal Sample of New American Schools

Four Years Into Scale-up

New American Schools (NAS) a private nonprofit corporation, began in 1991 to fund the development of designs aimed at transforming entire schools at t...

Investing in Successful Summer Programs

A Review of Evidence Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Research evidence suggests that summer breaks contribute to income-based achievement and opportunity gaps for children and youth. However, summertime ...

What are Teachers' and School Leaders' Major Concerns about New K-12 State Tests?

Findings from the American Teacher and American School Leader Panels

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Standards-Based Accountability Under No Child Left Behind

Since 2001-2002, standards-based accountability (SBA) provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) have shaped the work of public school ...