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Performance Management in Portfolio School Districts |
Robin Lake, Paul Hill
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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.... |
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Drivers of Choice: Parents, Transportation, and School Choice |
Paul Teske, Jody Fitzpatrick, Tracey O'Brien
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07/2009 |
Transportation is clearly a consideration to be factored into any discussion of school choice.... |
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Finding a Balance: How Application and Authorization Policies Impact School Supply |
Meghan Squires, Lydia Rainey
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06/2008 |
NCSRP Working Paper #2008-4
In this working paper, Meghan Squires and Lydia Rainey describe how high-quality authorizers have changed their application procedures and standards and examine the effect that these changes have had on the quality and quantity of new charter school applicants.... |
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Quality Improvement and Performance Management in Schools: Lessons From Abroad |
Kate Destler, Ashley Jochim
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06/2008 |
NCSRP Working Paper #2008-6
Despite decades of school reform in the United States, policymakers continue to rely on a limited set of tools for managing performance and improving school quality even as schools continue to falter and exhibit serious quality deficiencies.... |
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Closing Troubled Schools |
Julie Kowal, Bryan Hassel
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06/2008 |
NCSRP Working Paper #2008-8
Performance accountability is meaningless unless real sanctions exist for schools that fail to meet basic academic standards.... |
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Salvaging Assets: Considering Alternatives to School Closure |
Lucy Steiner, Bryan Hassel
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06/2008 |
NCSRP Working Paper #2008-9
Closing bad schools is necessary to maintain quality in a system based on performance accountability.... |
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Buying Smart in Thin Markets: District Tactics to Improve the Quality and Quantity of Autonomous Schools |
Kate Destler, Stephen Page
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06/2008 |
NCSRP Working Paper #2008-3
No Child Left Behind has heightened pressure on school districts to offer quality options for every child.... |
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Working With Private Partners to Manage the Market: Collaborative Approaches to Charter School Oversight |
Kate Destler
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06/2008 |
NCSRP Working Paper #2008-5
Charter school growth has been steady but slow.... |
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Contrasting Approaches to Charter School Oversight |
Kate Destler
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06/2008 |
NCSRP Working Paper #2008-2
Charter school authorizing is an essential component of charter school reform.... |
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Tough Calls: Identifying and Addressing School-Level Problems |
Robin Lake, Meghan Squires
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06/2008 |
NCSRP Working Paper #2008-7
Of all elements of charter school oversight, performance monitoring perhaps best highlights the tensions in managing a decentralized system of schools.... |
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Waiting for the ‘Tipping Point’: Why school choice is proving to be so hard |
Paul Hill
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09/2007 |
This commentary by Paul Hill first appeared in Education Week, September 4, 2007
The old arguments in support of school choice are still right: Choice can make parents full partners in education and drive innovation.... |
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Opening Doors: How Low-Income Parents Search for the Right School |
Paul Teske, Jody Fitzpatrick, Gabriel Kaplan
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01/2007 |
Researchers working for CRPE's Doing School Choice Right initiative zero in on school-choice decisions made by 800 low- to moderate-income families in three cities.... |
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No Longer the Only Game in Town: Helping Traditional Public Schools Compete |
Christine Campbell, Michael DeArmond, Kacey Guin, Deborah Warnock
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09/2006 |
This report from the Doing School Choice Right initiative reveals how two markedly different school districts, Milwaukee and Dayton, are confronting the challenges of competition.... |
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Must Enrollment Declines Spell Financial Chaos for Districts? Avoiding budgetary shell games to create more nimble fiscal systems |
Marguerite Roza
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08/2006 |
This commentary by Marguerite Roza first appeared in Education Week, August 29, 2006.... |
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Poor Parents Can Be Good Choosers |
Paul Hill, Paul Teske
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04/2006 |
Paul Teske, Patrick Wolf, and Paul Hill authored this Education Week commentary on low-income parents and school choice.... |
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Doing School Choice Right: Preliminary Findings |
Paul Hill, James Harvey
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04/2006 |
Will school choice be the end of public education? Or will it be the salvation of thousands of students who would otherwise fail in district-run schools? There is only one honest answer to these questions: it all depends.... |
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Getting Choice Right: Ensuring Equity and Efficiency in Education Policy |
Dan Goldhaber, Kacey Guin
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12/2005 |
Getting Choice Right analyzes basics of school choice, and focuses on how the expansion of choice can be implemented in a way that is beneficial to most students with minimal social costs.... |
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Doing School Choice Right |
Paul Hill
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02/2005 |
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Doing School Choice Right: Proceedings of a Meeting on Communities and Choice |
James Harvey, Lydia Rainey
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08/2004 |
How can communities encourage the development of good school alternatives harnessed to solid public oversight? Do charter or voucher schools face particular accountability challenges? What do parents need if they are to make sound choices? In particular, what do the poorest parents need? How do advocates of more school choice deal with the politics surrounding the issue? And, how do schools of choice make sure they get all the funds to which they are entitled, including special education funds?
These questions and others lay at the heart of a two-day seminar on “How Can Communities Do School Choice Right?” convened at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.... |
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School Choice: Doing It the Right Way Makes a Difference |
Paul Hill
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11/2003 |
A Report from the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education
Paul Hill chaired the Commission, which was established to explore how choice works and to examine how communities interested in the potential benefits of new school options could obtain them while avoiding choice's potential damage.... |
