IMPROVING PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH RESEARCH

Research Index:


A Guide to Contracting Out School Support Services: Good for the School? Good for the Community?

A Policy Makers Guide to The 65% Solution Proposals

Alternative Certification of Teachers

An Analysis of Some Unintended and Negative Consequences of High-Stakes Testing

Assessment High Stakes and Alternative Visions: Appropriate Use of the Right Tools to Leverage Improvement

Educational Innovation and Diversification in School Choice Plans

Ending the Blame Game on Educational Inequity: A Study of High Flying Schools and NCLB

Evaluating the Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: A Longitudinal Look at the Great Lakes States

Funding Formulas School Choice and Inherent Incentives

High Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Problems for the No Child Left Behind Act

How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice

How School Choice Can Create Jobs for South Carolina

Let the Buyer Beware

Multiple Pathways: 21st Century High Schools that Prepare All Students for College, Career and Civic Participation

NCLB's Ultimate Restructuring Alternatives: Do they Improve the Quality of Education?

Negotiating Public and Private: Philosophical Frameworks for School Choice

Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success

Preschool Education and Its Lasting Effects: Research and Policy Implications

Private Schooling in the U.S.: Expenditures, Supply, and Policy Implications

Private Schooling in the U.S.: Expenditures, Supply, and Policy Implications

Promoting ELL Parental Involvement: Challenges in Contested Times

Restoring Value To the High School Diploma: The Rhetoric and Practice Of Higher Standards

Review of A School Privatization Primer for Michigan School Officials Media and Residents

Review of a series of reports on tuition tax credit vouchers in Indiana/Montana/Georgia/Kentucky

Review of A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on How Vouchers Affect Public Schools

Review of An Evaluation of Floridas Program to End Social Promotion and Getting Ahead by Staying Behind: An Evaluation of Floridas Program to End Social Promotion

Review of An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

Review of Answering the Question That Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind?

Review of Are Private Schools Better Academically than Public High Schools? and Monopoly Versus markets: The Empirical Evidence on Private Schools and School Choice

Review of Assessing Proposals for Preschool and Kindergarten: Essential Information for Parents Taxpayers and Policymakers

Review of Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration and Competition

Review of Choice and Education across the States

Review of Connecticut's Charter School Law and Race to the Top

Review of Education Olympics 2008: The Games in Review

Review of End It Dont Mend It: What to Do with No Child Left Behind

Review of Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Three Years

Review of Everyone Wins: How Charter Schools Benefit All New York City Public School Students

Review of Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education

Review of Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure

Review of fund the Child: Bringing Equity Autonomy and Portability to Ohio School Finance

Review of Getting Farther Ahead by Staying Behind: A Second-Year Evaluation of Floridas Policy to End Social Promotion

Review of Giving Kids the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need

Review of High Achieving Students in the ERA of NCLB

Review of How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement

Review of How Sound an Investment? An Analysis of Federal Prekindergarten Proposals

Review of Immersion Not Submersion Vol. III

Review of Markets vs. Monopolies in Education: A Global Review of the Evidence

Review of Michigan Higher Education: Fact and Fiction

Review of Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States

Review of On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate

Review of Portfolios - A Backward Step in School Accountability

Review of Promising Start: An Empirical Analysis of How EdChoice Vouchers Affect Ohio Public Schools

Review of Public Charter Schools: A Great Value for Ohio's Public Education System

Review of Report Card on American Education

Review of Reports on 10 state public opinion surveys on K-12 school choice

Review of School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs 1990-2006

Review of Segregation Levels in Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Voucher Program

Review of Shortchanging Disadvantaged Students: An analysis of intra-district spending patterns in Ohio

Review of Spreading Freedom and Saving Money: The Fiscal Impact of the D.C. Voucher Program

Review of State Takeover School Restructuring Private Management and Student Achievement in Philadelphia and School Reform in Philadelphia: A comparison of Student Achievement at Privately-Managed Schools with Student Achievement in other District Schools

Review of The ABCs of School Choice

Review of The Effect of Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program on Student Achievement in Milwaukee Public Schools

Review of The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Floridas McKay Scholarship Program

Review of The Financial Impact of Charter Schools

Review of The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2009 Update

Review of The High Cost of Failing to Improve Public Education in Missouri The High Cost of Failing to Improve Public Education in Indiana The High Cost of Failing to Improve Public Education in Texas The High Cost of South Carolinas Low Graduation Rates The High Cost of Low Graduation Rates in North Carolina.

Review of The High Cost of High School Dropouts in Ohio

Review of The Impact of Milwaukee Charter Schools on Student Achievement

Review of The Misplaced math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra

Review of The MPCP Longitudinal Educational Growth Study Second Year Report

Review of The State of State Standards 2006

Review of The Status of High School Education in Wisconsin

Review of The Turnaround Challenge: Why Americas Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve Student Achievement Lies in Our Worst-Performing Schools

Review of The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Teacher Differences

Review of Trends in Charter School Authorizing

Review of Weighted Student Formula Yearbook 2009

Review of When Private Schools Take Public Dollars: What's the Place of Accountability in School Voucher Programs?

Review of Whole Language high Jinks: How to tell when scientifically-based reading instruction isnt

Review of: How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid?

Review of: Playing to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape

School Choice and Accountability

School Choice and Segregation by Race Class and Achievement

School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations (10 Brief Series)

School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations (Introduction)

Schools without Diversity: Education Management Organizations, Charter Schools, and the Demographic Stratification of the American School System

Separate But Superior? A Review Of Issues And Data Bearing On Single-Sex Education

Strengthening the Link between Effective School Expenditures and State Funding Mechanisms

Supplemental Education Services under NCLB: Emerging Evidence and Policy Issues

Teacher Attrition in Charter Schools

Teacher Qualifications and Work Environments Across School Types

The Accuracy and Effectiveness of Adequate Yearly Progress NCLBs School Evaluation System

The Competitive Effect of School Choice Policies on Performance in Traditional Public Schools

The Impact of Advocacy Funding on the School Choice Debate

The Impact of School Choice Reforms on Student Achievement

The Impact of the Adequate Yearly Progress Requirement of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act on Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing

The Promises and Pitfalls of Alternative Teacher Compensation Approaches

The Realities of K-12 Virtual Education

The Research that Reaches the Public: Who Produces the Educational Research Mentioned in the News Media

Two New Think Tank Reviews Published ... Elsewhere

What Do We Know About the Outcomes of KIPP Schools?

Who Chooses Schools and Why? The Characteristics and Motivations of Families who Actively Choose Schools