Professional Sense-Makers
2015; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 44; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3102/0013189x15601644
ISSN1935-102X
AutoresThurston Domina, Ryan Lewis, Priyanka Agarwal, Paul Hanselman,
Tópico(s)Evaluation and Performance Assessment
ResumoThis brief documents the expansion of instructional specialist staffing in U.S. public school districts. We use data from the National Center of Education Statistics’ annual Common Core of Data to chart staffing trends in public school districts between 1997–1998 and 2012–2013. The number of instructional specialists per 1,000 U.S students doubled during that period, and the proportion of districts employing no specialists declined from nearly 20% to 7%. We suggest that specialists are poised to play a pivotal “professional sense-making” role as schools work to implement new instructional standards in the classroom.
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