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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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