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Research Highlights

A chronological list of research briefs, issue papers, and testimony.

2008-1997  |   Prior to 1997

2008-1997

Assessing Child Care Quality: How Well Does Colorado's Qualistar Quality Rating Improvement System Work? — 2008

Extending the Reach of Arts Education— 2008

Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools: A Summary — 2008

Evaluating the BK 21 Program — 2008

Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost?— 2008

Identifying Priorities for Post-Secondary Education in Qatar — 2008

Accountability Under No Child Left Behind: Progress Toward Implementation — 2007

Partners in Pittsburgh Public Schools' Excellence for All Initiative: Findings from the First Year of Implementation— 2007

Do Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services Affect Student Achievement? — 2007

How Educators in Three States Are Responding to Standards-Based Accountability Under No Child Left Behind — 2007

A Vision for the Arts in Los Angeles — 2007

A New System for K-12 Education in Qatar — 2007

Strategies for Sustaining Arts and Culture in the Metropolis — 2007

Student Achievement in Privately Managed and District-Managed Schools in Philadelphia Since the State Takeover — 2007

Ready for School: Can Full-Day Kindergarten Level the Playing Field? — 2006

How the 2005 Hurricanes Affected Students in Louisiana — 2006

Making Sense of Data-Driven Decision Making in Education: Evidence from Recent RAND Research — 2006

Does Reform-Oriented Teaching Make a Difference? The Relationship Between Teaching Practices and Achievement in Mathematics and Science — 2006

Comprehensive School Reform: The Implementation Gap — 2006

Reforming Teacher Education, Again — 2006

Making Sense of Charter Schools: Evidence from California — 2006

Advancing Systemwide Instructional Reform: Lessons from Three Urban Districts Partnered with the Institute for Learning — 2005

A Decade of Entrepreneurship in Education: A Look at Edison Schools' Improvement Strategies and Their Effects on Student Achievement — 2005

Studying Large-Scale Reforms of Instructional Practice: An Example from Mathematics and Science — 2005

Decentralized Decision-Making for Schools: New Promise for an Old Idea? — 2005

Assessment as a Policy Tool — 2005

Scaling Up High-Quality Pre-K: What Can Be Learned From States' Efforts To Date? — 2005

Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740 — 2005

Developing Process Indicators to Improve Educational Governance: Lessons for Education from Health Care — 2005

Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher EffectsThe Promise and Peril of Using Value-Added Modeling to Measure Teacher Effectiveness — 2004

The Promise and Peril of Using Value-Added Modeling to Measure Teacher Effectiveness — 2004

Meeting Literacy Goals Set by No Child Left Behind — 2004

Reforming Teacher Education: A First-Year Progress Report on a New Initiative — 2004

Reforming Teacher Education: Spotlight on the University of Virginia — 2004

Reforming Teacher Education: Spotlight on Michigan State University — 2004

Reforming Teacher Education: Spotlight on California State University, Northridge — 2004

Reforming Teacher Education: Spotlight on Bank Street College of Education — 2004

The Challenges of Building Local Collaboratives for Sustaining Educational Improvement — 2004

Improving Arts Education Partnerships — 2004

The Careers of Public School Administrators: Policy Implications from an Analysis of State-Level Data — 2004

Improving Educational Outcomes Through Accountability: Lessons from Other Sectors — 2004

Problems and Promise of the American Middle School — 2004

Developing an R&D Program to Improve Reading Comprehension — 2003

Developing a Strategic Research and Development Program in Mathematics Education — 2003

How California Charter Schools Operate and Perform — 2003

Are Schools Facing a Shortage of Qualified Administrators? — 2003

Benefits of a Statewide Student Identifier System for California — 2002

A Decade of Whole-School Reform: The New American Schools Experience — 2002

School Violence Prevention Testimony — 2001

School Violence: Prevalence, Fears, and Prevention — 2001

What Do We Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools? Separating the Rhetoric from the Reality — 2001

Using Web-Based Testing For Large-Scale Assessment — 2000

What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us? — 2000

Large-Scale Testing: Current Practices and New Directions — 1999

Test-Based Accountability Systems: Lessons of Kentucky's Experiment — 1999

Education and the New Economy: Views from a Policy Planning Exercise — 1998

Funding Comprehensive School Reform — 1998

Reforming America's Schools: Observations on Implementing "Whole School Designs" — 1998

New Immigrants, New Needs: The California Experience — 1997

Prior to 1997

Revisiting California's Master Plan for Undergraduate Education — 1996

Accountability in Workforce Training — 1995

Contracting: The Case for PrivatelyOperated PublicSchools — 1995

The Decentralization "Mirage" — 1995

Does California's Fiscal Future Bode Ill for Education? — 1996

Increasing Hispanic Participation in Higher Education: A Desirable Public Investment — 1995

When Do They Settle Down? Young People in the U.S. Labor Market — 1995

Education's Role in U.S. "Economic Decline" — 1994

Integrating Academic and Vocational Education: Lessons from Early Innovators — 1994

Student Performance and the Changing American Family — 1994

The Use and Misuse of Test Scores in Education Reform Debates — 1994

Teaching Generic Skills for the Workplace — 1993

Time for Reform — 1993

Getting Better Schools — 1992

 

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