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1 to 50 of 93 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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
Projections of State Budget Shortfalls on K-12 Public Education Spending and Job Loss	Marguerite Roza	02/2009	Nearly all state budgets are in the red, suggesting looming cuts and possible job loss in K-12 education....
Seniority-Based Layoffs Will Exacerbate Job Loss in Public Education	Marguerite Roza	02/2009	K-12 school districts that lay off personnel according to seniority cause disproportionate damage to their programs and students than if layoffs were determined on a seniority-neutral basis....
The Productivity Imperative: Getting More Benefits From School Costs in an Era of Tight Budgets	Marguerite Roza, Dan Goldhaber, Paul Hill	01/2009	This commentary by Marguerite Roza, Dan Goldhaber, and Paul Hill appeared in Education Week Vol....
Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools	Paul Hill, Marguerite Roza, James Harvey	11/2008	Public school finance systems around the United States are outmoded, failing to support the effective education of America’s children....
Schools: Look for ways to get better results for less money	Marguerite Roza, Robin Lake	11/2008	This article by Marguerite Roza and Robin Lake first appeared in the Seattle PI, November 20, 2008 Let's talk about how we'll slash spending on education....
Funding Student Learning: How to Align Education Resources with Student Learning Goals		10/2008	After years of hard work and spending hundreds of millions to raise the level of student performance, educators, political and civic leaders, and parents still have not produced the results they expect....
Measuring School Efficiency: Educational Return on Investment: A Case Study of An Urban District	Michael Foote, Marguerite Roza	10/2008	The Journal of School Business Management, Vol....
Financing Schools for Results	Paul Hill, Marguerite Roza	09/2008	This is a pre-print version of an article by Paul Hill and Marguerite Roza that was published in ASBO International's School Business Affairs magazine, Volume 74, Number 8....
Returns to Skill and Teacher Wage Premiums: What Can We Learn By Comparing the Teacher and Private Sector Labor Markets?	Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond, Albert Liu, Dan Player	08/2008	SFRP Working Paper 8 (revised August 18, 2008) Analysts have long argued that salary schedules in public education have pernicious effects on who ends up teaching....
Must public education suffer from Baumol's disease?	Marguerite Roza	08/2008	This article first appeared in the Denver Post, August 1, 2008....
Taking Stock of the Fiscal Costs of Expanded Learning Time	Marguerite Roza, Karen Hawley Miles	07/2008	With increasing demands for improved student performance, many education policymakers are considering reforms that would expand learning time for all students....
Money strings bind schools	Shelley De Wys	07/2008	This article by Shelley De Wys first appeared in the The News & Observer, July 14, 2008....
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....
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....
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....
Spending Money When It Is Not Clear What Works	Paul Hill	05/2008	Public school funding in the United States is not a product of intelligent design....
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....
A False Dilemma: Should Decisions About Education Resource Use Be Made at the State or Local Level?	Marguerite Roza, Thomas Timar	04/2008	The paper begins by describing both the research and the evolution of California’s now largely state-controlled funding system in the context of four dimensions: equity, effectiveness, accountability, and efficiency....
Putting students first: Playing second fiddle to finances, teacher contracts, politics	Shelley De Wys, Paul Hill	02/2008	This article first appeared in the Seattle PI, February 29, 2008....
Performance Pressure and Resource Allocation in Ohio	Shelley De Wys, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Jacob E. Adams, Jr	02/2008	SFRP Working Paper 27 New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before—ensuring that all students meet state standards....
Performance Pressure and Resource Allocation in Washington	Shelley De Wys, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Jacob E. Adams, Jr	01/2008	SFRP Working Paper 26 New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before—ensuring that all students meet state standards....
The School Finance Redesign Project: A Synthesis of Project Work to Date	Paul Hill	01/2008	Education still claims the lion’s share of state and local government expenditures, but rising costs and competition with other sectors (e....
Reform the way we pay teachers	Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond	12/2007	This article first appeared in the Seattle Times, December 19, 2007....
Lessons from the Headlines	Kacey Guin, Marguerite Roza	11/2007	Newspapers across the country highlight stories of districts that need to close schools....
Do Districts Fund Schools Fairly?	Marguerite Roza, Kacey Guin, Betheny Gross, Scott DeBurgomaster	10/2007	In Texas, differences are larger within districts than between....
Teacher Attitudes About Compensation Reform: Implications for Reform Implementation	Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond, Scott DeBurgomaster	08/2007	SFRP Working Paper 20 In response to concerns about the quality of the teacher workforce and the distribution of teacher quality among schools, some advocates, policymakers, and analysts have proposed alternative pay structures for teachers, including merit pay and incentives for hard-to-hire subject areas, hard-to-staff schools, and special knowledge and skills....
Teacher Labor Markets and the Perils of Using Hedonics to Estimate Compensating Differentials in the Public Sector	Dan Goldhaber, Kate Destler, Dan Player	08/2007	SFRP Working Paper 17 Policymakers and researchers alike have expressed concern about a teacher quality gap between schools with affluent student populations and the more disadvantaged ones....
Difficulties of Estimating the Cost of Achieving Education Standards	Susanna Loeb	08/2007	SFRP Working Paper 23 Susannah Loeb shows that none of the available methods for estimating what it would cost to reach high standards for all children is adequate to the task....
Recruiting New Teachers to Urban School Districts: What Incentives Will Work	Anthony T. Milanowski, Hope Longwell-Grice, Felicia Saffold, Janice Jones, Allan R. Odden, Kristen Schomisch	07/2007	SFRP Working Paper 11 (Revised 7/30/2007) Often the districts most in need of quality teachers have the greatest difficulty attracting and retaining them....
Spending Choices and School Autonomy: Lessons From Ohio Elementary Schools	Marguerite Roza, Tricia Davis, Kacey Guin	07/2007	SFRP Working Paper 21 Education policy is experiencing a revival of interest in school-based decision-making....
Two Alternative Yet Complementary Conceptual Frameworks for Financing American Education	Michael Kirst, Lori Rhodes	07/2007	SFRP Working Paper 22 Michael Kirst suggests that a productive education system would focus relatively greater resources on out-of-school interventions, especially for the most disadvantaged children....
District Resource Allocation Modeler (DREAM): A Web-Based Tool Supporting the Strategic Use of Educational Resources	Stephen Frank, Karen Hawley Miles	07/2007	SFRP Working Paper 19: A companion piece to the District ResourcE Allocation Modeler (DREAM) tool....

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