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1 to 25 of 266 Next  View All View by: Topic / Project / Initiative CHOICE & CHARTERS     Doing School Choice Right         Helping Schools Compete in a Choice Environment         Informing Low-Income Parents         Transportation as a Barrier to Choice     National Charter School Research Project                  Charter School Effectiveness         Charter School Scale-Up         Hopes, Fears & Reality         Inside Charter Schools:         Performance Management FINANCE & PRODUCTIVITY     Finance, Spending, and Productivity Project         Analysis of School District Fiscal Deficits         Cost Analysis Inside High Schools         Developing Return on Investment Measures for Schools         District Dollars         Lessons Learned on School Closure         Remedies for Within-District Finance Inequities         Schools in Crisis: Making Ends Meet     School Finance Redesign Project         Finance Structures and How They Constrain Resource Allocation         National Working Group on Funding Student Learning         Recruiting and Retaining High-Quality Teachers         Resource Allocation and Use at the Local Level         Tools to Support Strategic Resource Allocation TEACHERS     Teachers, Teacher Quality, and Human Capital Project         Hiring Teachers at the Schoolhouse Door         Is it Just a Bad Class?         National Board Certification         NBPTS Certification and Teacher Career Path         Teacher Licensure Tests and Student Achievement URBAN DISTRICT REFORM     Portfolio School Districts Project         Multiple Pathways to Graduation for Disconnected Youth         Network of Leaders Pursuing Portfolio Strategies         Portfolio Reform Efforts in Urban School Districts LEADERSHIP STATE & FEDERAL REFORM or Author Emily Anthony Heather Barney Melissa Bowen Richard Brandon John Bransford Christine Campbell Hyung-Jai Choi Lauren Cramer Tricia Davis Michael DeArmond Scott DeBurgomaster Kate Destler Robert Durante Stephen Frank Paul Gazzerro Michael E. Goetz Betheny Gross Brock J. Grubb Eric A. Hanushek James Harvey Paul Hill Gina S. Ikemoto Ashley Jochim Janice Jones Michael Kirst Julia E. Koppich Robin Lake Goodwin Liu Susanna Loeb Hope Longwell-Grice Julie Marsh Lorraine M. McDonnell Anthony T. Milanowski David H. Monk Stephen Page Lawrence O. Picus Mitch Price Lori Rhodes Marguerite Roza Felicia Saffold Kristen Schomisch Diana Sharp Joanna Smith Meghan Squires Thomas Timar Joanne Weiss Jason Willis Priscilla Wohlstetter Dana Brinson Jon Christensen Shelley De Wys Allison Demeritt Brianna Dusseault Michael Foote Susan Funk Dan Goldhaber Laura S. Hamilton Michael Hansen Frederick M. Hess Kelly Hupfeld Joanne Jacobs Chris Lozier Bruno V. Manno Kirsten Martens Pochop Jacqueline Meijer-Irons David Menefee-Libey Katherine K. Merseth Raegen Miller Tracey O'Brien Lydia Rainey Robert Reichardt Lauren Morando Rhim Terry Ryan Cristina Sepe Brian M. Stecher Patricia Wasley Sarah Yatsko Todd Ziebarth Abigail Schumwinger Kevin Booker Kevin Carey Christopher T. Cross Julie Kowal Albert Liu Allan R. Odden David Perry Dan Player Lucy Steiner Georges Vernez Julian Betts Y. Emily Tang Paul Teske
Title	Author/Editor	Date	Description
Paul Hill: Reinventing Our Ideas About Public Education	Dominic Brewer, Robin Lake	03/2010	In a field full of ideologues and demagogues, we have been profoundly influenced by an unassuming, quiet intellect who has challenged us to think differently about the meaning of public education: Paul Hill has been a passionate advocate for improving our schools, particularly for the neediest children in our country, for more than four decades....
Learning as We Go: Why School Choice Is Worth the Wait	Paul Hill	02/2010	Why haven't schools of choice yet achieved a broader appeal? Publicly funded school choice programs—charter schools in forty-three states and vouchers in a few localities—have for the most part been qualified successes....
Beyond Teacher Reassignments: Better Ways Districts Can Remedy Salary Inequities Across Schools	Marguerite Roza, Sarah Yatsko	02/2010	Inside nearly all large school districts, the most experienced and highly paid teachers congregate in the more affluent schools....
Have States Disproportionately Cut Education Budgets During ARRA? Early Findings	Marguerite Roza, Susan Funk	01/2010	At the time of enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), state revenue gaps were posing a threat to state education spending....
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2009	Robin Lake	01/2010	This is the fifth annual report from the National Charter School Research Project (NCSRP)....
Now is a Great Time to Consider the Per Unit Cost of Everything in Education	Marguerite Roza	01/2010	There’s nothing quite like a serious fiscal crisis to inspire a sober assessment of an organization’s finances....
Assessing the Potential of Using Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Job Performance for Making Tenure Decisions	Dan Goldhaber, Michael Hansen	12/2009	CRPE Working Paper #2009-2 Whether early-career estimates of teacher effectiveness accurately predict later performance is of key interest to those who advocate allowing more individuals to initially enter the teaching profession, and then being more selective about who is allowed to remain....
Race, Gender, and Teacher Testing: How Informative a Tool Is Teacher Licensure Testing?	Dan Goldhaber, Michael Hansen	12/2009	American Educational Research Journal, 2009 Virtually all states require teachers to undergo licensure testing before participation in the public school labor market....
The 'Master's Pay Bump': Why Ending It Shouldn't Frighten Ed. Schools	Patricia Wasley, Marguerite Roza	12/2009	This commentary by Patricia Wasley and Marguerite Roza appeared in Education Week Vol....
Charter High Schools: Alternative Paths to Graduation	Sarah Yatsko, Betheny Gross, Jon Christensen	11/2009	It is no secret that many urban high school students are severely behind academically and face daunting social and emotional challenges....
Creating a New Teaching Profession	Dan Goldhaber, Jane Hannaway	11/2009	“Improving teacher quality is a necessary—indeed, the key—ingredient for improving our nation’s schools,” the editors of Creating a New Teaching Profession conclude....
Portfolio School Districts for Big Cities: An Interim Report	Paul Hill, Christine Campbell, David Menefee-Libey, Brianna Dusseault, Michael DeArmond, Betheny Gross	10/2009	This is the first report from an ongoing study of four urban school districts (New York, New Orleans, Chicago, and the District of Columbia) that are experimenting with new school designs and new ways of holding schools accountable for performance....
Performance Management in Portfolio School Districts	Robin Lake, Paul Hill	08/2009	Under pressure from state standards-based reform and No Child Left Behind, and with increasing competition from schools of choice, urban school districts are looking for ways to offer a high-performing mix of schools that meet the diverse needs of their communities....
The Tradeoff Between Teacher Wages and Layoffs to Meet Budget Cuts	Marguerite Roza	07/2009	School districts faced with large budget gaps could avoid some or all teacher layoffs by rolling back salaries....
Separation of Degrees: State-By-State Analysis of Teacher Compensation for Master’s Degrees	Marguerite Roza, Raegen Miller	07/2009	School district finances are organized around the assumption that revenues will increase more or less steadily, and at a rate higher than inflation....
Drivers of Choice: Parents, Transportation, and School Choice	Paul Teske, Jody Fitzpatrick, Tracey O'Brien	07/2009	Transportation is clearly a consideration to be factored into any discussion of school choice....
Can Transfer and Articulation Policies Propel Community College Students to a Bachelor’s Degree—and Is This the Only Goal?	Betheny Gross, Dan Goldhaber	06/2009	This policy review summarizes research completed as part of the Community Colleges and Higher Education initiative....
Breaking Down School Budgets: Following the dollars into the classroom	Marguerite Roza	06/2009	Education Next, Vol....
Ranking the States: Federal Education Stimulus Money and the Prospects for Reform	Marguerite Roza	05/2009	Modeling the effect of education stimulus funds on state education spending This brief presents projections of changes in state K-12 education spending, amidst both state revenue gaps and the addition of ARRA funds....
Custom Tailored: Trends in Charter School Educational Programs	Jon Christensen, Lydia Rainey	05/2009	This research brief analyzes detailed descriptions of charter school educational programs to better understand how these schools tailor their programs to meet their students' needs....
From Research to Practice: How Charter School Leaders Can Best Survive on the High Wire		04/2009	This series of research briefs targets different audiences to highlight relevant information from the report Working Without a Safety Net: How Charter School Leaders Can Best Survive on the High Wire....
Community College Transfer and Articulation Policies: Looking Beneath the Surface	Betheny Gross, Dan Goldhaber	04/2009	CRPE Working Paper #2009-1R As the demand for higher education has grown, so has the role of community colleges in providing post-secondary education to students....
Challenges and Charter Schools: How Families with Special-Needs Students Perceive and Use Charter School Options	Tracey O'Brien, Kelly Hupfeld, Paul Teske	03/2009	NCSRP Working Paper #2008-10 This report addresses choices made at the intersection of two very important trends in education: special education and charter schools....
State Intervention and Contract Choice in the Public Teacher Labor Market	Michael Hansen	03/2009	This paper was prepared for the National Center for Teacher Quality's TR3 Research Competition Finals and presented at their March 26, 2009 conference in Washington, D....
Ohio at the crossroads: School funding—more of the same or changing the model?	Paul Hill	02/2009	Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's education plan calls for modernizing Ohio's K-12 education system, including the state's school-funding system, but the plan's so-called "evidence-based" approach would actually scuttle any modernizing efforts, argues a new study authored by Paul Hill and issued by the Thomas B....

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