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July 21, 2010 "Common Core" School Standards Roll On Without Supporting Evidence Despite Obama administration claims, research finds no link between achievement scores and academic standards
Related Documents:	*The "Common Core" Standards Initiative: An Effective Reform Tool?* William J. Mathis, Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder Executive Summary Policy Brief

July 14, 2010 Florida Class Size Study Doesn't Study Class Size Major flaws invalidate study on impact of class-size reduction, according to new review
Related Documents:	Jeremy Finn's Review of The Impact of a Universal Class-Size Reduction Policy: Evidence from Florida's Statewide Mandate The Impact of a Universal Class-Size Reduction Policy: Evidence from Florida's Statewide Mandate

June 29, 2010 Reasons for school funding gap add up Charter Schools receive less because traditional schools must offer more
Related Documents:	Equal or Fair? A Study of Revenues and Expenditures in American Charter Schools Gary Miron and Jessica L. Urschel, Western Michigan University Executive Summary Policy Brief

June 9, 2010 Teach For America: A False Promise Alternative teacher training program yields costly turnover while doing little to improve student achievement
Related Documents:	*Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence* Julian Vasquez Heilig, University of Texas at Austin Su Jin Jez, Ph.D., California State University, Sacramento Executive Summary Policy Brief

June 2, 2010 Churning the School System Brief finds fault with radical "portfolio approach" to school reform
Related Documents:	*Urban School Decentralization and the Growth of “Portfolio Districts”* Kenneth J. Saltman, DePaul University Executive Summary Policy Brief

May 26, 2010 Fordham Charter School Report of Little Value for Guiding Policy Report claiming less regulation of charters will enhance their performance lacks evidence, according to new review review
Related Documents:	Charisse Gulosino's Review Charter School Autonomy: A Half-Broken Promise

May 19, 2010 ELL Report Asks a Question It Can't Answer CEP publication has significant weaknesses, according to new review
Related Documents:	Jeff MacSwan's Review Has Progress Been made in Raising Achievement for English language Learners

May 12, 2010 NCTQ Offers Useful Summary of Teacher Layoff Issues Suggestions on using teacher quality to determine layoffs are sensible, but not new or easy to implement
Related Documents:	Richard Ingersoll's Review Teacher Layoffs: Rethinking "Last-Hired, First-Fired" Policies

May 5, 2010 They Counted WHAT? Cato report inflates school spending by double-counting capital costs
Related Documents:	Vaughn Altemus's Review They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools

April 29, 2010 Policymakers and the Public Urged to "Think Twice" New book illustrates low quality of education research produced by advocacy think tanks
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April 21, 2010 National Standards Report Makes a Leap Too Far Cato report accurately critiques national standards movement, but makes unsupported leap to free-market solutions, review finds
Related Documents:	William Mathis's Review Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Case for National Standards

April 15, 2010 "Fix the City Schools" lacks meaningful research to support its claims Report citing New Orleans as a model for changing urban education ignores key facts and makes faulty arguments, reviewer finds
Related Documents:	Katrina E. Bulkley's Review Fix the City Schools: Moving All Schools to Charter-Like Autonomy

April 7, 2010 'Stuck Schools' Methods Simplistic and Misleading New review finds Education Trust report too flawed to be of much value
Related Documents:	Jaekyung Lee's Review Stuck Schools

March 31, 2010 Milwaukee Voucher Study Design too Weak to Link Vouchers to Higher Graduation Rates New review recognizes report's usefulness, but warns about causal suggestion
Related Documents:	Casey Cobb's Review Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee, 2003-2008

March 24, 2010 "Private-Public School" Report Leaps to Unsupported Recommendations Fordham report's call for expansion of private school vouchers is unsupported by data and based on tenuous logic, according to new review
Related Documents:	John T. Yun's Review America's Private Public Schools

March 17, 2010 Report on Civics Education in College Fails to Make the Grade Shaping of the American Mind ignores contradictory findings, omits key information, wrongly argues causation, and confuses civic knowledge with conservative political values
Related Documents:	Gregory J. Marchant’s Review The Shaping of the American Mind: The Diverging Influences of the College Degree & Civic Learning on American Beliefs

March 10, 2010 ConnCAN Can't Support its Claims Brief provides one-sided arguments for change in Connecticut's charter school law
Related Documents:	Robert Bifulco’s Review Connecticut’s Charter School Law and Race to the Top

March 3, 2010 Report Advocating School Choice for All Lacks Evidence
Related Documents:	Janelle Scott’s Review Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education

February 9, 2010 Escalating Evidence on Charter Segregation On heels of UCLA study, new study finds charter schools operated by corporations are segregated by race, income, disability and language
Related Documents:	*Schools Without Diversity: Education Management Organizations, Charter Schools, and the Demographic Stratification of the American School System* Gary Miron, Jessica L. Urschel, William J. Mathis,* and Elana Tornquist Dept. of Educational Leadership, Research & Technology College of Education Western Michigan University *University of Colorado at Boulder Executive Summary Policy Brief

January 14, 2010 Study Linking Vouchers to Job Creation is Seriously Flawed Research uses bad methodology, weak data and incorporates mistakes of earlier work, reviewer finds
Related Documents:	Joydeep Roy’s Review How School Choice Can Create Jobs for South Carolina

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