Research Highlights
A chronological list of research briefs, issue papers, and testimony.
2009-1997
Qatar's K-12 Education Reform Has Achieved Success in Its Early Years (Arabic Version)— 2009
Research Brief
Qatar's K-12 Education Reform Has Achieved Success in Its Early Years— 2009
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How Taxpayers Benefit When Students Attain Higher Levels of Education— 2009
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Ending Social Promotion in New York City Public Schools Without Leaving Children Behind— 2009
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Revitalizing Qatar's National University (Arabic version)— 2009
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Revitalizing Qatar's National University— 2009
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Developing Institutional Standards for Critical Thinking Using the Collegiate Learning Assessment— 2009
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Lessons Learned from Developing and Implementing the Qatar Student Assessment System— 2009
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Lessons Learned from Developing and Implementing the Qatar Student Assessment System (Arabic version)— 2009
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Measuring the Progress of the Math Science Partnership of Southwest Pennsylvania— 2009
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Are Charter Schools Making a Difference?
A Study of Student Outcomes in Eight States— 2009
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Promoting Effective Preschool Programs— 2009
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Improving Accountability in Public Education— 2009
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Designing Effective Pay-for-Performance in K-12 Education— 2009
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Increasing Participation in No Child Left Behind School Choice— 2009
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The Role of Charter Schools in Improving Education— 2009
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Improving Finance for Qatari Education Reform— 2009
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Pittsburgh Public Schools' Excellence for All:
Year 2 Evaluation— 2009
Documented Briefing
No Child Left Behind Educational Options: Availability Expands, But Participation Remains Low— 2009
Research Brief
Developing and Implementing the Qatar Student Assessment System— 2009
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Pathways to Sustainability for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh— 2008
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Emerging Trends in State Arts Policy— 2008
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Child-Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: What Can We Learn from Early Adopters?— 2008
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Improving Early Childhood Education in Central and Eastern Europe Step by Step— 2008
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Implementing No Child Left Behind in Three States— 2008
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How to Cultivate Demand for the Arts— 2008
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Florida's Middle School Reading Coaches: What Do They Do? Are They Effective?— 2008
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Child-Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: What Can We Learn from Early Adopters?— 2008
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The Impact of Educational Quality on the Community— 2008
Documented Briefing
Assessing Child Care Quality: How Well Does Colorado's Qualistar Quality
Rating Improvement System Work? — 2008
Research Brief
Extending the Reach of Arts Education— 2008
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Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools: A Summary — 2008
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Evaluating the BK 21 Program — 2008
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Current-Generation Youth Programs:
What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost?— 2008
Occasional Paper
Identifying Priorities for Post-Secondary Education in Qatar — 2008
Research Brief
Arabic Version
Accountability Under No Child Left Behind:
Progress Toward Implementation — 2007
Research Brief
Partners in Pittsburgh Public Schools' Excellence for All Initiative:
Findings from the First Year of Implementation— 2007
Documented Briefing
Do Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services Affect
Student Achievement? — 2007
Research Brief
How Educators in Three States Are Responding to Standards-Based Accountability Under No Child Left Behind — 2007
Research Brief
A Vision for the Arts in Los Angeles — 2007
Corporate Publication
A New System for K-12 Education in Qatar — 2007
Research Brief
Arabic version
Strategies for Sustaining Arts and Culture in the Metropolis — 2007
Research Brief
Student Achievement in Privately Managed and District-Managed Schools in
Philadelphia Since the State Takeover — 2007
Research Brief
Ready for School: Can Full-Day Kindergarten Level the Playing Field?
— 2006
Research Brief
How the 2005 Hurricanes Affected Students in Louisiana — 2006
Research Brief
Making Sense of Data-Driven Decision Making in Education: Evidence from Recent RAND Research — 2006
Occasional Paper
Does Reform-Oriented Teaching Make a Difference? The Relationship Between
Teaching Practices and Achievement in Mathematics and Science — 2006
Research Brief
Comprehensive School Reform: The Implementation Gap — 2006
Research Brief
Reforming Teacher Education, Again — 2006
Research Brief
Making Sense of Charter Schools:
Evidence from California — 2006
Occasional Paper
Advancing Systemwide Instructional Reform:
Lessons from Three Urban Districts Partnered with the Institute for Learning — 2005
Research Brief
A Decade of Entrepreneurship in Education: A Look at Edison Schools'
Improvement Strategies and Their Effects on Student Achievement — 2005
Research Brief
Studying Large-Scale Reforms of Instructional Practice: An Example from
Mathematics and Science — 2005
Reprint
Decentralized Decision-Making for Schools: New Promise for an Old Idea? — 2005
Occasional Paper
Assessment as a Policy Tool — 2005
Reprint
Scaling Up High-Quality Pre-K: What Can Be Learned From States' Efforts To
Date? — 2005
Research Brief
Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740 — 2005
Research Brief
Developing Process Indicators to Improve Educational Governance: Lessons for
Education from Health Care — 2005
Testimony
Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher EffectsThe Promise and Peril of Using Value-Added Modeling to Measure Teacher Effectiveness — 2004
Reprint
The Promise and Peril of Using Value-Added Modeling to Measure Teacher Effectiveness — 2004
Research Brief
Meeting Literacy Goals Set by No Child Left Behind — 2004
Research Brief
Reforming Teacher Education: A First-Year Progress Report on a New Initiative — 2004
Research Brief
Reforming Teacher Education: Spotlight on the University of Virginia — 2004
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Reforming Teacher Education: Spotlight on Michigan State University — 2004
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Reforming Teacher Education: Spotlight on California State University, Northridge — 2004
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Reforming Teacher Education: Spotlight on Bank Street College of Education — 2004
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The Challenges of Building Local Collaboratives for Sustaining Educational Improvement — 2004
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Improving Arts Education Partnerships — 2004
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The Careers of Public School Administrators: Policy Implications from an Analysis of State-Level Data — 2004
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Improving Educational Outcomes Through Accountability: Lessons from Other Sectors — 2004
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Problems and Promise of the American Middle School — 2004
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Developing an R&D Program to Improve Reading Comprehension — 2003
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Developing a Strategic Research and Development Program in Mathematics Education — 2003
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How California Charter Schools Operate and Perform — 2003
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Are Schools Facing a Shortage of Qualified Administrators? — 2003
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Benefits of a Statewide Student Identifier System for California — 2002
Congressional Testimony
A Decade of Whole-School Reform: The New American Schools Experience — 2002
Research Brief
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School Violence Prevention Testimony — 2001
Congressional Testimony
School Violence: Prevalence, Fears, and Prevention — 2001
Issue Paper
What Do We Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools? Separating the Rhetoric from the Reality — 2001
Research Brief
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Using Web-Based Testing For Large-Scale Assessment — 2000
Issue Paper
What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us? — 2000
Issue Paper
Large-Scale Testing: Current Practices and New Directions — 1999
Issue Paper
Test-Based Accountability Systems: Lessons of Kentucky's Experiment — 1999
Research Brief
Education and the New Economy: Views from a Policy Planning Exercise — 1998
Issue Paper
Funding Comprehensive School Reform — 1998
Issue Paper
Reforming America's Schools: Observations on Implementing "Whole School Designs" — 1998
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New Immigrants, New Needs: The California Experience — 1997
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Prior to 1997
Revisiting California's Master Plan for Undergraduate Education — 1996
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Accountability in Workforce Training — 1995
Issue Paper
Contracting: The Case for PrivatelyOperated PublicSchools — 1995
Research Brief
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The Decentralization "Mirage" — 1995
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Does California's Fiscal Future Bode Ill for Education? — 1996
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Increasing Hispanic Participation in Higher Education: A Desirable Public Investment — 1995
Issue Paper
When Do They Settle Down? Young People in the U.S. Labor Market — 1995
Research Brief
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Education's Role in U.S. "Economic Decline" — 1994
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Integrating Academic and Vocational Education: Lessons from Early Innovators — 1994
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Student Performance and the Changing American Family — 1994
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The Use and Misuse of Test Scores in Education Reform Debates — 1994
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Teaching Generic Skills for the Workplace — 1993
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Time for Reform — 1993
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Getting Better Schools — 1992
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