Publications

---

Dissemination of our research is an essential part of CRPE's mission. All CRPE-published reports, white papers, working papers, and briefs are available to download in PDF format (requires Acrobat® Reader™). Some externally published work such as journal articles, op-eds, books and book chapters may link to other sites, and some may require subscriptions to view.

Please email us if you would like print copies of our work. We provide one copy free of charge; additional copies are $10 each (including shipping/handling costs). For larger orders, inquire about multiple copy rates.

1 to 25 of 282 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 Management Organizations (CMOs), Effectiveness, & Scale-Up         Guidelines for Charter School Research         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 Felicia Saffold Kristen Schomisch Diana Sharp Joanna Smith Meghan Squires Thomas Timar Joanne Weiss Jason Willis Priscilla Wohlstetter Julie Angeley 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 Shannon Marsh Kirsten Martens Pochop Jacqueline Meijer-Irons David Menefee-Libey Katherine K. Merseth Raegen Miller Tracey O'Brien Lydia Rainey Robert Reichardt Lauren Morando Rhim Marguerite Roza Terry Ryan Cristina Sepe Jim Simpkins Sam Sperry 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
Washington State High Schools Pay Less for Math and Science Teachers than for Teachers in Other Subjects	Jim Simpkins, Marguerite Roza, Cristina Sepe	08/2010	Washington State recently passed a law (House Bill 2621) intending to accelerate the teaching and learning of math and science....
Curing Baumol’s Disease: In Search of Productivity Gains in K–12 Schooling	Paul Hill, Marguerite Roza	07/2010	Public schools in most areas of the U....
Strategic Communications for Portfolio School District Reform	Sam Sperry	07/2010	CRPE Working Paper #2010-3 This paper identifies key aspects of effective, strategic communications policies and practices for officials adopting the portfolio district model of school reform....
The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings	Robin Lake, Brianna Dusseault, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Paul Hill	06/2010	Charter management organizations (CMOs), nonprofit entities that directly manage public charter schools, are a significant force in today’s public K–12 charter school landscape....
Charter Management Organizations: Innovations, Opportunities, and Challenges - BRIEF	Robin Lake, Brianna Dusseault, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Paul Hill	06/2010	This brief presents findings from the National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings....
Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs	Robin Lake	05/2010	ORDER INFORMATION The book can be purchased for $19....
Research shows teacher merit pay might improve classroom focus and productivity	Dan Goldhaber	05/2010	This commentary by Dan Goldhaber appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel....
The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority-Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students	Cristina Sepe, Marguerite Roza	05/2010	K-12 school districts that lay off teachers by seniority, a policy known as “last in, first out,” disproportionately affect the programs and students in their poorer and more minority schools than in their wealthier, less minority counterparts....
Multiple Pathways To Graduation: New Routes to High School Completion	Shannon Marsh, Paul Hill	05/2010	CRPE Working Paper #2010-2 Concerned about the persistently high dropout rates from big-city secondary schools, education leaders are trying a new approach to increasing the graduation rate—multiple pathways to graduation....
Seniority Rules: Do Staffing Reforms Help Redistribute Teacher Quality and Reduce Teacher Turnover?	Betheny Gross, Michael DeArmond, Dan Goldhaber	05/2010	CRPE Working Paper #2010-1 Abstract: Education reformers routinely call on school districts to stop hiring teachers based on seniority, which they argue interferes with effective staffing, especially in disadvantaged schools....
Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs - BRIEF	Robin Lake	05/2010	This short policy guide to the book, Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs (Robin Lake, editor), summarizes the findings from case studies and parents surveys....
Taking Measure of Charter Schools: Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools	Julian Betts, Paul Hill	04/2010	The book is available for purchase from Rowman & Littlefield Education....
The Charter School Catch-22	Paul Hill, Robin Lake	04/2010	When charter schools first emerged nearly two decades ago, critics claimed they would promote segregation by serving privileged white students whose families take advantage of choice....
Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go?	Marguerite Roza	04/2010	Imagine if a school were to spend more per pupil on ceramics electives than core science classes....
How Do Charter Schools Compete for Teachers? A Local Perspective	Betheny Gross, Michael DeArmond	03/2010	NCSRP Working Paper #2010-1 When policymakers and researchers debate personnel policies in public education, they sometimes hold up charter schools as examples of the benefits of a freer and more competitive approach to attracting and retaining teachers....
K–12 Job Trends Amidst Stimulus Funds: Early Findings	Marguerite Roza, Chris Lozier, Cristina Sepe	03/2010	In February 2009, with some 600,000 education jobs threatened by the worst fiscal downturn in decades, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) allocated about $100 billion to states....
Paul Hill: Reinventing Our Ideas About Public Education	Robin Lake, Dominic Brewer	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....

1 to 25 of 282 Next