Research Index:
A dual review of Better Data, Better Decisions: Informing School Choosers to Improve Education Markets and A Crisis We Can Solve: Connecticut’s Failing Schools and Their Impact
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
A review of A New Agenda: Research to Build a Better Teacher Preparation Program
A review of Back to the Staffing Surge: The Great Teacher Salary Stagnation and the Decades-Long Employment Growth in American Schools
A review of Hidden Money: The Outsized Role of Parent Contributions in School Finance
A review of High Stakes for High Achievers and High Stakes for High Schoolers
A review of New York Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Selective Public Schools: More Evidence that Cream-skimming is Not Driving Charters’ Success
A review of Reimagining Learning: A Big Bet on the Future of American Education
A review of Segregation, Race, and Charter Schools: What Do We Know?
A review of The Tax-Credit Scholarship Audit: Do Publicly Funded Private School Choice Programs Save Money?
A Review of the Value-Added Analysis Underlying the Effectiveness Rankings of Los Angeles Unified School District Teachers by The Los Angeles Times
Adding Up the Spending: Fiscal Disparities and Philanthropy among New York City Charter Schools
Alternative Certification of Teachers
An Analysis of Some Unintended and Negative Consequences of High-Stakes Testing
An Analysis of the Use and Validity of Test-Based Teacher Evaluations Reported by the Los Angeles Times: 2011
Assessment High Stakes and Alternative Visions: Appropriate Use of the Right Tools to Leverage Improvement
Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
Charting Equality: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Equal Educational Opportunity
Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement
Consolidation of Schools and Districts What the Research Says and What It Means
Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity
Data-driven Improvement and Accountability
Democracy Left Behind: How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Education
Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence
Determining Funding for Online Schools
Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs
Does Class Size Matter?
Educational Innovation and Diversification in School Choice Plans
Ending the Blame Game on Educational Inequity: A Study of High Flying Schools and NCLB
English Language Learners and Parental Involvement
Equal or Fair? A Study of Revenues and Expenditures in American Charter Schools
Evaluating the Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: A Longitudinal Look at the Great Lakes States
Funding Formulas School Choice and Inherent Incentives
Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn from Research
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
Linking Learning to the 21st Century: Preparing All Students for College, Career, and Civic Participation
Model Legislative Language for Comprehensive Assessment and Accountability
NCLB's Ultimate Restructuring Alternatives: Do they Improve the Quality of Education?
Negotiating Public and Private: Philosophical Frameworks for School Choice
NSLA Pledges Support for Teach to Lead
Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S.: Uncertain Private Ventures in Need of Public Regulation
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
Proposed Legislation for Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - Addressing School Environment and Safety for LGBT Students
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - Reading Qualitative Educational Policy Research
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - School Accountability, Multiple Measures and Inspectorates in a Post-NCLB World
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - Twenty-first-Century Skills and Implications for Education
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Do Choice Policies Segregate Schools?
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Does Money Matter?
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Effective School Expenditures
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Five Simple Steps to Reading Policy Research
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Housing Policy
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Regulating Charter Schools
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Reversing the Deprofessionalization of Teaching
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – The 'Portfolio' Approach to School District Governance
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – The Effectiveness of Class Size Reduction
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – The Purpose of Education: Truing the Balance Wheel
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking — Moving Beyond Tracking
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking— Common Core State Standards
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking—Preschool Education
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking—Public Funding of School Choice
Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking—Teacher Evaluation
Restoring Value To the High School Diploma: The Rhetoric and Practice Of Higher Standards
Review of America's Private Public Schools
Review of 2010 State School Report Card: A state-by-state analysis of learning, efficiency, and standards
Review of 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education — Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement
Review of A 21st Century School System in the Mile-High City
Review of A Legal Lever for Enhancing Productivity
Review of A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement
Review of A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schooling to Strengthen Rural Education
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 A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice
Review of An Analysis of Arizona Individual Income Tax-credit Scholarship Recipient's Family Income, 2009-10
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 An Opportunity Culture for All : Making teaching a highly paid, high-impact profession
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 Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers
Review of Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Case for National Standards
Review of Better Evidence, Better Choices, Better Schools: State Supports for Evidence-Based School Improvement
Review of Charter School Autonomy: A Half-Broken Promise
Review of Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands
Review of Charter School Performance in Michigan
Review of Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration and Competition
Review of Charter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education
Review of Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap-Closing Reform: The success of California charter schools in promoting African American Achievement
Review of Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation’s Dropout Factories
Review of Choice and Education across the States
Review of Class Size: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy
Review of Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: Learning from Florida's Reforms
Review of Connecticut's Charter School Law and Race to the Top
Review of CREDO National Charter School Study 2013
Review of CREDO’s Urban Charter School Study
Review of Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Pay for Performance
Review of Differences by Design? Student Composition in Charter Schools with Different Academic Models
Review of District Awards for Teacher Excellence: Final Report
Review of Do We Already Have Universal Preschool?
Review of Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition
Review of Dramatic Action, Dramatic Improvement: the Research on School Turnaround
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 ESEA Reauthorization: How Can We Build upon No Child Left Behind’s Progress for Students with Disabilities in a Reauthorized ESEA
Review of Estimating the effect of leaders on public sector productivity: The case for school principals AND "School Leaders Matter"
Review of Evaluation of Teach for America in Texas Schools
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 Failure is Not an Option: How Principals, Teachers, Students, and Parents from Ohio’s High-Achieving, High Poverty Schools Explain Their Success
Review of Federal School Finance Reform: Moving Toward Title I Funding Following the Child
Review of Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure
Review of Fix the City Schools: Moving All Schools to Charter-Like Autonomy
Review of Fixing Classroom Observations: How Common Core Will Change the Way We Look at Teaching
Review of Florida Formula for Student Achievement: Lessons for the Nation (Bush's Michigan Presentation)
Review of For Good Measure? Teacher Evaluation Policy in the ESSA Era
Review of fund the Child: Bringing Equity Autonomy and Portability to Ohio School Finance
Review of Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High Quality Observation with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains
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 Going Exponential: Growing The Charter School Sector’s Best
Review of Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee 2003-2008
Review of Has Progress Been Made in Raising Achievement for English Language Learners?
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 Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality
Review of KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes
Review of Learning about Learning: What Every New Teacher Needs to Know
Review of Markets vs. Monopolies in Education: A Global Review of the Evidence
Review of Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement: How Mayor-Led Districts are Improving School and Student Performance
Review of Measures of Effective Teaching
Review of Measures of Effective Teaching - Asking Students About Teaching
Review of Measures of Last Resort: Assessing Strategies for State-Initiated Turnarounds
Review of Measuring and Understanding Education Advocacy
Review of Measuring School Turnaround Success
Review of Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I & II
Review of Michigan Higher Education: Fact and Fiction
Review of Middle Class or Middle of the Pack
Review of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, Milwaukee Evaluation: Final Reports No. 29
Review of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, Milwaukee Evaluation: Final Reports No. 30
Review of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, Milwaukee Evaluation: Final Reports No. 32
Review of Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States
Review of New York City’s Children First: Lessons in School Reform
Review of New York State Special Education Enrollment Analysis Center on Reinventing Public Education
Review of No Excuses Charter Schools: A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence
Review of On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service
Review of On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate
Review of Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teacher Assignments
Review of Our Immense Achievement Gap: Embracing Proven Remedies While Avoiding a Race-Based Recipe for Disaster
Review of Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning
Review of Parent Power: Grass-Roots Activism and K-12 Education Reform
Review of Paying the Best Teachers More to Teach More Students
Review of Pluck & Tenacity: How Five Private Schools in Ohio Have Adapted to Vouchers
Review of Portfolios - A Backward Step in School Accountability
Review of Presentations by the Achievement School District and the Recovery School District on the Portfolio Model.
Review of Promising Start: An Empirical Analysis of How EdChoice Vouchers Affect Ohio Public Schools
Review of Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations
Review of Public Charter Schools: A Great Value for Ohio's Public Education System
Review of Reform With Results for New Jersey Schools
review of Renewing our Cities: A Case Study on School Choice’s Role in Urban Renewal and CPR Scholarships: Using Private School Choice to Attack Concentrated Poverty, Crime, and Unemployment
Review of Report Card on American Education
Review of Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress, and Reform (18th edition)
Review of Reports on 10 state public opinion surveys on K-12 school choice
Review of Review of Gateways to the Principalship: State Power to Improve the Quality of School Leaders
Review of School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools: Will the Past be Prologue?
Review of School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs 1990-2006
Review of School Closures and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Ohio’s Urban District and Charter Schools
Review of SchoolGrades.org
Review of Seeds of Achievement: AppleTree’s Early Childhood D.C. Charter Schools
Review of Segregation Levels in Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Voucher Program
Review of Separating Fact and Fiction: What You Need to Know about Charter Schools
Review of Shortchanging Disadvantaged Students: An analysis of intra-district spending patterns in Ohio
Review of Should Charter Schools Pay Rent? Implications for Staffing and Growth
Review of Smart, Skilled, and Striving: Transforming and Elevating the Teaching Profession
Review of Spend Smart: Fix Our Broken School Funding System
Review of Spreading Freedom and Saving Money: The Fiscal Impact of the D.C. Voucher Program
Review of Squeezing the Public School Districts: The Fiscal Effects of Eliminating the Louisiana Scholarship Program and The Fiscal Effect of Eliminating the Louisiana Scholarship Program on State Education
Review of State Policy Report Card
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 Stuck Schools
Review of Teacher Evaluation 2.0
Review of Teacher Layoffs: Rethinking "Last Hired, First Fired" Policies
Review of Teachers in the Digital Age of Digital Instruction: Creating sound policy for digital learning
Review of Ten Years in New Orleans: Public School Resurgence and the Path Ahead
Review of The ABCs of School Choice
Review of The Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Summary of Fourth Year Reports
Review of The Costs of Online Learning
Review of The Economic Benefits of Closing Education Achievement Gaps
Review of The Economic Benefits of New York City’s Public School Reforms, 2002-2013
Review of the Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012
Review of The Effect of Co-locations on Student Achievement in NYC Public Schools
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 Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City
Review of The Effects of Test-based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
Review of The Efficiency Index
Review of The Financial Impact of Charter Schools
Review of The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2009 Update
Review of The Hidden Value of Curriculum Reform: Do States and Districts Receive the Most Bang for their Curriculum Buck?
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 a Universal Class-Size Reduction Policy: Evidence from Florida's Statewide Mandate
Review of The Impact of Milwaukee Charter Schools on Student Achievement
Review of The Integration Anomaly: Comparing the Effects of K-12 Education Delivery Models on Segregation in Schools
Review of The Long-Term Impact of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Review of The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State
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 Participant Effects of Private School Vouchers across the Globe: A Meta-Analytic and Systematic Review
Review of The Policy Framework for Online Charter Schools
Review of The Productivity of Public Charter Schools
Review of The School Choice Voucher: A "Get Out of Jail" Card?
Review of The School Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America's Public Schools
Review of The School Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools, Part II
Review of The Shaping of the American Mind: The Diverging Influences of the College Degree and Civic Learning on American Beliefs
Review of The State Education Agency: At the Helm, Not the Oar
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 Way of the Future: Education Savings Accounts for Every American Family
Review of The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Teacher Differences
Review of They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools
Review of Transfer Incentives for High-Performing Teachers: Final Results from a Multisite Randomized Experiment
Review of Trends in Charter School Authorizing
Review of Two Culminating Reports From The MET Project
Review of two high-profile teacher preparation reports
Review of Two Reports on Teacher Pensions
Review of U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students
Review of Understanding a Vicious Cycle: Do Out-of-School Suspensions Impact Student Test Scores?
Review of Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century
Review of Virtual Schooling and Student Learning: Evidence from the Florida Virtual School
Review of Weighted Student Formula Yearbook 2009
Review of Weighted Student Funding for California
Review of Were all those standardized tests for nothing? The lessons of No Child Left Behind
Review of What's Trust Got to Do With It? A Communications and Engagement Guide for School Leaders Tackling the Problem of Persistently Failing Schools
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 Within Our Grasp: Achieving Higher Admission Standards in Teacher Prep
Review of Yearning to Break Free: Ohio Superintendents Speak Out
Review of: How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid?
Review of: Playing to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape
Safe at School: Addressing the School Environment and LGBT Safety through Policy and Legislation
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)
School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance
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
Spending by the Major Charter Management Organizations: Comparing Charter School and Local Public District Financial Resources in New York, Ohio, and Texas.
Strengthening the Link between Effective School Expenditures and State Funding Mechanisms
Student Mobility: Causes, Consequences, Solutions
Supplemental Education Services under NCLB: Emerging Evidence and Policy Issues
Teach For America: A Return to the Evidence
Teach for America: A Review of the Evidence
Teacher Attrition in Charter Schools
Teacher Qualifications and Work Environments Across School Types
The "Common Core" Standards Initiative: An Effective Reform Tool?
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
The six research summaries supporting the "Blueprint for Reform"
Two New Think Tank Reviews Published ... Elsewhere
Urban School Decentralization and the Growth of "Portfolio Districts"
Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2013: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence
Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence
Virtual Schools Report 2016: Directory and Performance Review
What Do We Know About the Outcomes of KIPP Schools?
What Does It Take to Scale Up Innovations? An Examination of Teach For America, Harlem Children’s Zone, and the Knowledge is Power Program
Who Chooses Schools and Why? The Characteristics and Motivations of Families who Actively Choose Schools
Why School Report Cards Merit a Failing Grade
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