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A Leap of Faith: Redesigning Teacher Compensation Michael DeArmond, Dan Goldhaber 06/2008 This paper (formerly SFRP Working Paper 25) briefly summarizes three School Finance Redesign Project teacher compensation studies that begin to help build the evidence base for teacher pay reform....
Closing the Skill Gap Christine Campbell, Brock J. Grubb 06/2008 With 400 new charter schools opening their doors each year and 4,000 charter schools up and running, a strong supply of leaders is crucial to the sustainability of charter schools....
What Is the Sum of the Parts? How Federal, State and District Funding Streams Confound Efforts to Address Different Student Types Marguerite Roza, Kacey Guin, Tricia Davis 06/2008 This report (formerly SFRP Working Paper 9) demonstrates in greater detail than ever before how America’s methods of school finance work against a single-minded focus on student learning....
What if We Closed the Title I Comparability Loophole? Marguerite Roza 06/2008 Recent evidence on district spending practices suggests that Title 1's key comparability provision is not doing its intended job....
Allocation Anatomy: How District Policies That Deploy Resources Can Support (or Undermine) District Reform Strategies Marguerite Roza 05/2008 The process of creating and managing a school budget is a complex undertaking, and many districts spend countless hours amassing thick budget binders and balancing resources among departments....
Allocation Anatomy: District Resource Distribution Practices & Reform Strategies (Research Brief) Marguerite Roza 05/2008 A companion piece to Allocation Anatomy: How District Policies That Deploy Resources Can Support (or Undermine) District Reform Strategies, this research brief summarizes the report's key findings and recommendations....
Community Colleges and Higher Education: How Do State Transfer and Articulation Policies Impact Student Pathways? Dan Goldhaber, Betheny Gross, Scott DeBurgomaster 05/2008 CRPE Working Paper #2008-4 This paper reviews state cross-institutional policies designed to better integrate state community colleges with traditional four-year college and university system schools, commonly referred to as 'transfer and articulation policies', and examines how patterns of college attendance, transfer, and degree earning vary across states with different policies....
School Funding's Tragic Flaw Kevin Carey, Marguerite Roza 05/2008 Federal, state, and local policies designed to distribute education funds systematically provide more money to higher-income students and wealthier schools....
Is it Better to be Good or Lucky? Decentralized Teacher Selection in 10 Elementary Schools Michael DeArmond, Betheny Gross, Dan Goldhaber 05/2008 CRPE Working Paper #2008-3 This paper presents results from a qualitative field study of school-based hiring—one of the more foundational ideas for reforming centralized and bureaucratic human resource management (HRM) systems....
The End of School Finance As We Know It Paul Hill, Marguerite Roza 04/2008 This commentary originally appeared in Education Week, April 30, 2008....
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