Venessa Keesler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4268648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Venessa Keesler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Venessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Keesler |
| SIGNATURE | KEESLER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Office of Education |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Impact of Being Labeled as a Persistently Lowest Achieving School
Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, grading and labeling of schools as low performing have been increasingly used as means to incentivize failing schools to raise student achievement. Using statewide high school data from Michigan, our regression discontinuity analyses show that the bottom 5% of schools identified as persistently lowest achieving (PLA), which is publicly announced and has consequential accountability, increased their …
Non-standard work schedules, work-family conflict and parental well-being
Assessing an Advanced Level Introductory Sociology Course
School Reform 2007
The article begins with a brief review of prior school reform movements and how and why they are different from today. Unlike past reform movements, school reform efforts are now focused on two key ideas: performance and scientific evidence. Motivated in part by economic considerations, the underlying rationale for many school reform programs is to raise the performance of U.S. students by strengthening their knowledge base and skills. Similarly,…
Scaling-Up Exemplary Interventions
Scale-up is the practice of introducing proven interventions into new settings with the goal of producing similarly positive effects in larger, more diverse populations. Scale-up research examines factors that influence the effectiveness of interventions as they are brought to scale across settings. This article has three objectives. First, it defines the goals of scale-up research with respect to broader efforts to enhance the quality of educati…
Scaling-Up Exemplary Interventions
Scale-up is the practice of introducing proven interventions into new settings with the goal of producing similarly positive effects in larger, more diverse populations. Scale-up research examines factors that influence the effectiveness of interventions as they are brought to scale across settings. This article has three objectives. First, it defines the goals of scale-up research with respect to broader efforts to enhance the quality of educati…
Non-standard work schedules, work-family conflict and parental well-being
School Reform 2007
The article begins with a brief review of prior school reform movements and how and why they are different from today. Unlike past reform movements, school reform efforts are now focused on two key ideas: performance and scientific evidence. Motivated in part by economic considerations, the underlying rationale for many school reform programs is to raise the performance of U.S. students by strengthening their knowledge base and skills. Similarly,…
Assessing an Advanced Level Introductory Sociology Course
The Impact of Being Labeled as a Persistently Lowest Achieving School
Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, grading and labeling of schools as low performing have been increasingly used as means to incentivize failing schools to raise student achievement. Using statewide high school data from Michigan, our regression discontinuity analyses show that the bottom 5% of schools identified as persistently lowest achieving (PLA), which is publicly announced and has consequential accountability, increased their …
Scaling-Up Exemplary Interventions
Scale-up is the practice of introducing proven interventions into new settings with the goal of producing similarly positive effects in larger, more diverse populations. Scale-up research examines factors that influence the effectiveness of interventions as they are brought to scale across settings. This article has three objectives. First, it defines the goals of scale-up research with respect to broader efforts to enhance the quality of educati…
School Reform 2007
The article begins with a brief review of prior school reform movements and how and why they are different from today. Unlike past reform movements, school reform efforts are now focused on two key ideas: performance and scientific evidence. Motivated in part by economic considerations, the underlying rationale for many school reform programs is to raise the performance of U.S. students by strengthening their knowledge base and skills. Similarly,…
Assessing an Advanced Level Introductory Sociology Course
Non-standard work schedules, work-family conflict and parental well-being
The Impact of Being Labeled as a Persistently Lowest Achieving School
Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, grading and labeling of schools as low performing have been increasingly used as means to incentivize failing schools to raise student achievement. Using statewide high school data from Michigan, our regression discontinuity analyses show that the bottom 5% of schools identified as persistently lowest achieving (PLA), which is publicly announced and has consequential accountability, increased their …
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (3 works) · Accountability (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works)